Publication
Adobe XD vs Sketch: Showdown 2020
https://www.toptal.com/designers/digital-product-design/adobe-xd-vs-sketch
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Designer
Location
Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
Toptal Member Since
December 3, 2019
Vincent is a senior product designer with several years of experience helping startups reach high profitability levels through professional and innovative UX strategies. He understands how to instill and blend a user-centered approach without losing track of the overall business objectives. Vincent is experienced in problem-solving using User-Centered Design (UCD) and design thinking processes. He always strives to keep the user needs at the center of everything, whatever the cost is.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer
2020 - PRESENT
Toters
- Designed an app that helps warehouse pickers to pick orders with no mistakes, and using external scanners to scan barcodes for each item before dispatching orders.
- Built a design system, including reusable components, text and layer styles, color variables, and managing it on a daily basis with daily communication with the design and dev teams.
- Conducted user interviews with our Lebanese and Iraqi customers to build our user personas.
- Built prototype and conducted remote moderated usability testings to test each feature and gather insights that help us improve our solutions.
- A/B-tested with internal teams as well as our customers.
- Redesigned our order feedback feature with a new chat feature to decrease the number of inbound and outbound calls.
- Built micro-interactions from the ground up using Adobe After Effects, and handed over Lottie files to our developers.
Technologies: Sketch, ProtoPie, Miro, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Google Docs, Product Design
ProtoPie Advocate
2019 - PRESENT
ProtoPie
- Empowered designers to turn their design ideas into highly interactive prototypes while using the full power of ProtoPie.
- Published tutorials on how designers can easily and quickly make those same interactions in ProtoPie Studio.
- Provided the value of components and how they can turn any set of layers and interactions into a component and reuse it by creating instances of a component throughout your scenes.
Technologies: ProtoPie
Sketch Ambassador in Beirut, Lebanon
2019 - PRESENT
Sketch.com
- Built the Sketch community in Lebanon.
- Helped graphic design students to build their knowledge in UX and UI and show them how Sketch can help them in their daily lives.
- Organized meetups, presented Sketch features, and showed them how we can use those features in real-life projects.
- Helped UX and UI designers to congregate and discuss the design trends, their work responsibilities, what they’re struggling with, and help each other.
- Asked designers to bring in their projects, discussed the challenges they’re facing, and found the best way to manage them.
Technologies: ProtoPie, Apple Keynote, Sketch
Top-level Designer
2014 - PRESENT
99designs.com
- Worked with clients from all around the world.
- Designed UI, icons, illustrations, infographics, and presentations.
- Designed user interfaces for the food, medicine, car industries among others.
- Interacted with clients using the internal 99designs messaging system and on Skype to gather and manage website and app content.
- Developed user interactions.
- Designed product packaging and 3D renders.
Technologies: Cinema 4D, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Experience Design (XD), ProtoPie, Sketch
Senior UX/UI Designer
2019 - 2020
Polaire Technologies
- Discussed the product roadmap with the stakeholders, ran ideation sessions with the team, and prioritized features and the daily follow up.
- Designed an app for the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage (focusing on iOS and Android users).
- Helped junior designers to build their skills.
- Preparing surveys and interviews questionnaires, talk to our users and gather feedback.
- Focused on our users' needs and ideated different solutions to solve their problems as well as fulfilling the business needs.
- Sketched and prototyped ideas then tested and iterated.
- Designed the UI for the validated features.
- Figured out the needed UX metrics to track and gather insights about all the implemented features.
Technologies: ProtoPie, Jira, Miro, Sketch, Product Design
UX/UI Designer
2016 - 2019
Cookpad
- Worked with the community managers and helped them deliver the best experience for our users.
- Participated in sprints and ideation sessions with the team in the UK.
- Sketched and prototyped ideas that focus on solving our users’ problems.
- Designed user interfaces for iOS and Android.
- Designed graphics, icons, and illustrations for the web.
- Met with product managers and discussed the product roadmap.
- Collaborated with the UX researchers to produce high-quality questionnaires that help us gather the needed feedback from our users.
- Strategized, researched, and designed visuals for the marketing department.
Technologies: Google Slides, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Zoom, Marvel App, ProtoPie, Miro, Sketch, Product Design
UX/UI Designer
2015 - 2016
Softimpact
- Received the project brief from the sales team and analyze every detail.
- Discussed each product roadmap with the founder, the sales, and the developer team.
- Met with the social media team, organize social media strategies, and produce high-quality graphics for every social media platform.
- Attended meetings with the clients and presented ideas and solutions that fit their business needs.
- Sketched and wireframed design solutions.
- Designed and prototyped user interfaces based on the wireframes we agreed on with the client.
- Handled the developer's hand-off using the Zeplin app for static screens.
- Provided developers with every animation and micro-interaction detail made in the ProtoPie app.
- Implemented the design audit and project delivery.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, Product Design
Other Experience
Education
2009 - 2012
Master's Degree in Fine Arts
Lebanese University — Institute of Fine Arts - Beirut, Lebanon
2005 - 2009
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Graphic Design
Lebanese University — Institute of Fine Arts - Beirut, Lebanon
Certifications
MARCH 2021 - PRESENT
UX Certificate
Nielsen Norman Group
MAY 2020 - PRESENT
UX Management: Strategy and Tactics
Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)
MARCH 2020 - PRESENT
Mobile User Experience (UX) Design
Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)
APRIL 2017 - PRESENT
User Experience: Research & Prototyping
Coursera