Vincent Abou Ghazale

Designer in Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Member since November 15, 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.

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Digital Design

Visit Travel App
- Travel
- User Interface (UI)
- User Experience (UX)
- Sketch
- Adobe Experience Design (XD)
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- Interactive Prototypes
- Travel Design
- Travel Security
- iOS UI Design
- Travel App
Video Editing App
- User Interface (UI)
- User Experience (UX)
- Sketch
- Video Ads
- Videos
- iOS App Design
- iOS UI Design
- Video Editing
- Mobile App UI
- Mobile UX
- Mobile App Design
- App UI
- App UX
- Mobile UI
Zapheer | Innovative Mental Wellness
- Wellness
- Health & Wellness
- Health
- App UX
- App UI
- Mobile Apps
- iOS
- iPhone
- UI
- UX
- Mobile UX
- Mobile UX Design
- Sketch
Sell Your Car Online
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- Sketch
- App Design
- Cars
- Car Selling
- Tinder
- App UI
- iPhone X
- iOS UI Design
- iOS Design Guidelines
- Wireframing
- UI Design
- Prototyping
StreamIt | Streaming App
- Streaming
- Sketch
- User Experience (UX)
- User Needs
- User Research
- Quantitative Research
- User Interface (UI)
- Empathy Mapping
- User Personas
- Wireframing
- ProtoPie
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- Storyboarding
- Video Streaming
- Streaming App
Electronic Notary Journal
- User Interface (UI)
- Notary
- iOS App Design
- iOS UI Design
- User Experience (UX)
- App UX
- Notary App
- iOS Design Guidelines

Employment

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
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
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
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

Other Experience

Adobe XD vs Sketch: Showdown 2020 (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/digital-product-design/adobe-xd-vs-sketch
Two heavyweight contenders continue to battle it out to capture the top spot for the most favored design tool: Adobe XD vs Sketch. Which tool will rule them all? We explore the differences in a comprehensive design tool showdown.

Education

Master's Degree in Fine Arts
2009 - 2012
Lebanese University — Institute of Fine Arts - Beirut, Lebanon
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Graphic Design
2005 - 2009
Lebanese University — Institute of Fine Arts - Beirut, Lebanon

Certifications

UX Certificate
MARCH 2021 - PRESENT
Nielsen Norman Group
UX Management: Strategy and Tactics
MAY 2020 - PRESENT
Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)
Mobile User Experience (UX) Design
MARCH 2020 - PRESENT
Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)
User Experience: Research & Prototyping
APRIL 2017 - PRESENT
Coursera

Experience

User Interface (UI)9 years
iOS9 years
Interactive Prototypes6 years
Sketch6 years
iOS UI Design6 years
User Experience (UX)5 years
Zeplin3 years
ProtoPie2 years

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