Stefan Dufgran

Designer in New York, NY, United States

Member since April 22, 2020

Stefan has over fifteen years of experience shipping digital websites and products at companies like Kickstarter and Stink Studios in New York. He is passionate about solving interaction challenges with elegant interfaces and well-crafted user experiences. Stefan has delivered award-winning work for clients large and small, including Spotify, Google, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft, and Sony.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

Kickstarter | Project Creation
- Kickstarter
- Dashboard Design
- User Validation Testing
- Usability Testing
- UX Research
- Responsive Web Apps
- Crowdfunding
- Sketch
- Prototyping
- User Interviews
- React
- WYSIWYG Web Builders
- User Profiles
- Project Design
- Project Planning
- Design Leadership
- Sprint Planning
- Design Sprints
- Agile Sprints
- UX Design
- Innovative UX
- Mobile UI Design
- User Experience (UX)
- UI Design
- Web Design
Spotify – Year In Music
- Spotify
- Spotify API
- Award-winning
- Streaming
- Mobile UX Design
- Forbes Global 2000
- Responsive UI
- Responsive Design
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Apple Music
- Music
- Music Industry
- Music Platforms
- Music Promotion
- Social Media Marketing (SMM)
- Social Impact
- Viral Marketing
- APIs
- Data
- Storytelling
- Innovative UX
- User Experience (UX)
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Web Design
Google – A Mad Men Retrospective for Google Play
- Award-winning
- The FWA
- Web UX Design
- Mobile UX Design
- Google
- Google Play Store
- Streaming
- WebGL
- Video Streaming
- Retrospective
- Home Entertainment
- TV Shows
- UX Design
- Innovative UX
- User Experience (UX)
- Web Design
StellarX – A Trading Platform Built On Blockchain
- Design Systems
- iOS
- Android
- React
- WebApp
- Crypto
- Blockchain
- Cryptocurrency Exchanges
- Trading Applications
- Trading
- Cryptocurrency
- Mobile Web Design
- Stellar
- Currency Exchange
- Stock Exchange
- Mobile Web
- Desktop Web Design
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- Open Source
- Innovative UX
- Dashboard Design
- User Experience (UX)
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Mobile UI Design
- Web Design
Spotify – Taste Rewind Website
- Marketing
- Spotify
- Spotify API
- Forbes Global 2000
- Music Industry
- The FWA
- Music Streaming
- APIs
- Apple Music
- Music Platforms
- Music Promotion
- Social Media Marketing (SMM)
- Viral Marketing
- Data
- Storytelling
- Streaming
- Audio Streaming
- Subscriptions
- Innovative UX
- User Experience (UX)
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Web Design
Spotify | Found Them First Website
- Spotify
- Spotify API
- Web UX Design
- Mobile UX Design
- Music Industry
- Streaming
- Forbes Global 2000
- Award-winning
- Innovative UX
- User Experience (UX)
- UX Design
- Web Design

Employment

Product Designer
2019 - 2021
Betcha Sports, Inc.
- Revamped the user experience, designed new features, and rebranded their product.
- Established a scalable design system that covers Android and iOS apps, the Betcha website, emails, presentations, social media, and other collateral.
- Collaborated with a brand designer to develop a new brand identity and with an illustrator to create a toolbox with brand graphics.
Technologies: ProtoPie, Zeplin, Trello, Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, Sketch, Figma, Innovative UX, Product Design, User Interface (UI), Mobile UI, UI Design, UX Design, Mobile UI Design, User Experience (UX), Web Design
Product Designer
2018 - 2019
Stellar Development Foundation
- Led the design of StellarX, a first-of-a-kind, distributed token exchange powered by the Stellar blockchain. My tasks included design research, UX and UI design, and prototyping.
- Worked as part of a five-person engineering team based in Brooklyn and California that created StellarX as a React Native app from the ground up.
- Oversaw the Stellar rebrand process by the brand agency, Kurppa Hosk.
Technologies: GitHub, Abstracts, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Slack, Sketch, Figma, Typefaces, UX Branding, Branding, Innovative UX, Product Design, User Interface (UI), Mobile UI, Dashboard Design, UI Design, UX Design, Mobile UI Design, User Experience (UX), Web Design
Product Designer
2016 - 2018
Kickstarter, PBC
- Led a team of designers, engineers, and data scientists to innovate and improve a business-critical aspect of the Kickstarter platform: the creator experience.
- Aligned on the product vision and strategy with our leadership team and CEO, defined KPIs and metrics with our data team, and then led a team of developers and designers to build features that achieved those goals.
- Led user research, UX and UI design, and prototyping new ways for creators to succeed on our platform. I conducted in-person user interviews and surveys with Kickstarter creators and performed weekly data analysis.
- Played a key role in growing Kickstarter, one of the first crowd-funding websites where over 10 million people from every continent have backed a Kickstarter project.
Technologies: Trello, GitHub, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Slack, Sketch, Abstracts, Innovative UX, Product Design, User Interface (UI), UI Design, UX Design, Mobile UI Design, User Experience (UX), Web Design
Director of User Experience Design
2010 - 2016
Stink Studios
- Ensured consistent, best-in-class UX and design deliveries in all projects and shipped products as the director of user experience design and a key leadership team member.
- Led project teams through design sprints, including strategy and vision workshops, user research, stakeholder interviews, competitive audits, content strategy, design research, and design exploration phases.
- Maintained and grew relationships with key clients: Google, Spotify, Microsoft, Sony, and Twitter.
- Oversaw flagship projects for Spotify, such as Year in Music 2015, Found Them First, and Taste Rewind.
Technologies: Trello, GitHub, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Slack, Sketch, Innovative UX, Mobile UI, Adobe CS6, Wireframing, UI Design, UX Design, Project Management, Mobile UI Design, User Experience (UX), Web Design