Wojtek Jodel
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Gdańsk, Poland
Toptal member since January 11, 2018
Wojtek is a product designer with a strong technical background on a never-ending quest to make complicated things simple. He's been creating digital products for seven years, and he's run the gamut, from developing back-ends to inventing, designing, and implementing user interfaces. Recently, he's been focusing on design systems; for the last two years, Wojtek's built comprehensive UI design frameworks for three companies.
Experience
- Web Design - 8 years
- UI Design - 8 years
- SaaS - 7 years
- Product Design - 6 years
- Prototyping - 6 years
- UX Design - 6 years
- Figma - 5 years
- Design Systems - 4 years
Portfolio
TRDWTR | Futuristic Sci-Fi User Interface
Work Experience
Co-founder
code2flow
- Designed and developed a company website.
- Redesigned a company flowchart editor from scratch.
- Designed new features of the product including a complete SaaS management platform.
- Adjusted the Clarity design system to company needs and helped incorporate it into the product.
Product Designer
MedSpoke
- Created a complete design system for company products.
- Designed a complete UI component library.
- Designed multiple product features according to established design system rules.
- Coordinated the process of incorporating the design rules and patterns into the product.
- Implemented UI components in React for both desktop and web.
Co-founder
Statusy
- Designed and developed a company website.
- Refreshed the design of hosted status page; the public facing part of the Statusy core product.
- Contributed to a web application's codebase using Python and the Flask framework.
- Was involved in marketing, sales, and technical support.
UI/UX Designer
Tenfold
- Led the visual design of one of the company's products.
- Provided visual solutions for specified UX requirements.
- Created both static (InVision) and interactive (Framer) prototypes to test out proposed visual solutions.
- Collaborated closely with the engineering team, providing them with required UI assets and guidelines.
- Built a UI design system with guidelines and ready-to-use Sketch components.
UI/UX Designer
Virtkick, Inc.
- Designed from scratch a user interface of Virtkick's core product (an online virtualization platform for hosting providers).
- Designed and developed several websites for different brands owned by the company.
- Contributed to the product development writing AngularJS and Ruby on Rails code.
- Conducted user research on a regular basis, discovered multiple usability problems, then designed and developed corresponding solutions.
- Improved and unified the user experience across all te company's products.
Front-end Developer
Innovation Code
- Coordinated the design of the company's brand, identity, and website.
- Designed and participated in the development of custom web solutions for embedded devices.
- Contributed to the process of designing the architecture of the RESTful API.
Founder
Balloon Studio
- Started a small software house that specialized in creating small-and-medium websites and web applications.
- Negotiated project scopes, estimated development time, and discussed business requirements with customers.
- Coordinated the design and development cycles using the sprint methodology.
- Designed logos and branding for companies.
- Designed websites and web applications using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
- Developed websites and web applications using PHP Symfony, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Knockout.js frameworks.
Software Engineer Intern
Intel Corporation
- Maintained and improved the continuous integration process using Jenkins and QuickBuild build systems.
- Developed testing tools in C++ and Groovy.
- Managed the team's server infrastructure.
Web Developer
Phi Software
- Developed a custom ERP solution to increase the customers' company productivity and improve internal processes.
- Participated in the process of designing web application architecture.
- Designed a web application's user interface.
- Implemented a web application functionality in the PHP Symfony framework.
- Planned and performed a migration from a previous company system to a new solution.
Education
Master of Science Degree in Informatics
Gdańsk University of Technology - Gdańsk, Poland
Bachelor of Science Degree in Informatics
Gdańsk University of Technology - Gdańsk, Poland
Technical Diploma in Mathematics, Physics
High School No. 3 - Gdańsk , Poland
Skills
Tools
Atom, InVision, Sketch 3, Middleman, Hotjar, Origami, Sketch, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Jenkins, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, GitHub
Platforms
Figma, MacOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Mixpanel, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Languages
JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, HTML, Ruby, PHP, C++, Java, Python
Other
SaaS, Google Material Design, Bootstrap UI, Design Systems, Prototyping, Product Design, UI Design, UX Design, Web Design, Embedded Systems, Interaction Design (IxD), Groovy, Symfony, React, Angular, Customer Experience, Web App Design, Dashboard Design, Startups, UX Research, Graphic Design, Future Design, Innovative UX, Photography, Mobile Design, Flowcharts, jQuery, Node.js, Logo Design, Branding, Magma
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