Rain Lieberman

Freelance UX Designer

Hi, I’m Rain, a senior product designer with nearly 10 years of experience. I specialise in designing complex Saas products that are used currently by millions of users worldwide. Some of my previous clients include: Mastercard, KPMG, Agoro and more. I help my clients with the designs of dashboards, layout, wireframes and interactions as well as with product strategy, research and validation and growth.
In my spare time I mentor students in their career path to UX and UI design

Work Experience

Piovella Designs

UX/UI Designer

Working as a consultant mainly with early stage startups to help them launch new products, grow existing ones and/or develop product strategy and vision. My responsibilities include:
* Leading the full product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch and post- launch iteration.
* Building a product strategy that sets a design foundations that help build a product from the grounds up.
* Collaborating with management and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and user needs, proposing creative and practical, design solutions.
* Managing and mentoring design teams and junior designers, reviewing the quality of their work, providing feedback and helping them hone their craft.
* Facilitating user research including: interviews, user testing, surveys and workshops to collect and integrate feedback into design updates.
* Presenting design concepts, progress and solutions to stakeholders, users and team members for clear communication, coordination and clarification.
* Creating and further developing design systems that are scalable, ensuring consistency with growth across the company products.
* Creating flow charts, wireframes, mockups, and clickable prototypes for testing and to effectively communicate the user experience.
November 2013 -

Swyg

Senior product designer

Being the sole designer at this innovative early stage startup, I helped create the vision and designed the products that help companies identify the right candidates based on their skills. Some of my responsibilities include:
* Leading the team through the entire product design process; from initial strategy and research, to ideation and presentations, to prototyping and final designs.
* Working closely with the CEO and product team members to shape product strategy and vision, delivering industry-leading solutions.
* Collaborating with stakeholders, collecting, synthesizing and incorporating feedback. Communicating design decisions and process.
* Hiring and managing designers and design agencies for specific projects, crafting projects plans, specifications and deadlines.
* Managing ongoing design iteration through continuous research, prototyping, user testing, interaction mapping, pattern definition, and new component delivery
* Developing an innovative and creative products from the grounds up with solid foundations of design best practices including a design system and thinking.
* Designing a new B2B hiring dashboard from the grounds up, including: onboarding, product roadmap, a design system and rebrand.
* Optimizing the usability of the existing P2P Interview platform, including: Smoother onboarding, better user flow, additional features and UI design.
June 2020 - July 2021

Reed.co.uk

UX Designer

Working closely with the product owner, as part of the job-seeker scrum team. Tailoring user centric solutions that take into consideration technical limitationsand business needs.

- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis (surveys, user testing a interviews)
- Task analysis on current user journeys and redesign where necessary
- Workshops and click-able prototype user testing
- Creating personas and user journeys
- Presenting new concepts, features and designs across platforms to stake holders
May 2015 - May 2016 United Kingdom

House Of Kaizen

UX Designer

Working as part of the conversion optimization team as a user experience designer. My role bridges between the conversion consultants, the graphic design and the tech team. Improving performances of e-commerce sites. Clients include some of the largest publishing companies in the UK, the hospitality and travel industries.

- A/B split testing
- User & competitive research
- User journeys
- Shopping cart and booking forms
- Mobile and Tablet adaptive design
- Wireframes
April 2014 - April 2015 United Kingdom

Education

University Of Westminster

BA Architecture

September 2005 - July 2008 London, United Kingdom

London Metropolitan University

MA Product design

September 2009 - July 2010 London, United Kingdom

Skills

B2B, B2C, Dashbaords, Design Systems, Figma, Photoshop, Product Strategy, Prototype, Prototype, Responsive, SaaS, Sketch, StartUp , UI, User Research , User Testing, Ux, Wireframe, Wireframes,