Stefan Dufgran
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Lisbon, Portugal
Toptal member since April 22, 2020
Stefan has over 15 years of experience shipping digital websites and products for 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.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer
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.
Product Designer
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.
Product Designer
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.
Director of User Experience Design
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.
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite Design, Zeplin Design, Slack Development, InVision App, Figma, Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite Design, InVision, InVision Studio, Trello Development, Prototype Design, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, Adobe Creative Suite Design, GitHub, Framer X
Languages
CSS, HTML, SCSS, SQL, JavaScript
Industry Expertise
Entertainment & Leisure, Music, Marketing Design
Platforms
iOS Design, Android Design, Ethereum, Music Streaming
Other
Product Design, UI Design, UX Design, Dashboard Design, Wireframing, Mobile UI Design, Responsive Design, UI Design, UX Design, Mobile App Design, UI Design, UX Design, UI Design, Web Design, Design Systems, Prototype Design, Presentations, Style Guides, User-centered Design (UCD), Prototype Design, Prototype Design, Mockups, Mockups, Prototype Design, Animated Prototypes, Prototyping, Animation Design, Design Leadership, Virtual Coaching, Sprint Planning, iOS Design, Android Design, UI Design, Web App Design, UI Prototyping, UX Design, Agile Design, Agile Sprints, UX Design, User Stories, Scrum Master Consulting, Keynote Templates, Marketplace Design, Marketplace Platforms, Marketplace Design, Customer Journeys, Trading Applications, Financial Software Development, Financial Software Development, Iterative Design, Design Sprints, UX Design, User Journeys, Android Design, Abstracts, Award-winning, Streaming, Mobile App Design, Forbes Global 2000, Apple Music, Music Platforms, Social Media Design, Social Impact, Viral Marketing, APIs, Data, Storytelling Design, Audio Streaming, Subscriptions, Web Design, Crypto, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Exchanges, Trading, Mobile App Design, Stellar, Mobile Web Design, Desktop Web Design, Bitcoin, Open Source Development, Kickstarter, User Validation Testing, Usability Testing, UX Research, Responsive Web Development, Crowdfunding Design, UX Design, WYSIWYG Web Builders, User Profiles, Project Design, Project Planning, Web Design, Google Software, Google Play Development, WebGL, Video Streaming, Sprint Retrospectives, Home Entertainment, TV Shows, React.js, Workshops, Workshop Facilitation, User Flow Design, User, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Cryptocurrency Design, Data Visualization Design, Infographics, UX Design, Sprints Design, Music Industry, Spotify API, Spotify Development, Music Promotion, Digital Marketing Design, Typefaces, UX Design, Branding
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