Alexandru Năstase

Multidisciplinary Senior Designer

Bucharest, Romania
Senior multidisciplinary designer with over 12+ years experience in the field.

Work Experience

Google

Senior Visual Designer & Type Designer

February 2021 - Present Bucharest, Romania

Fitbit

Senior Visual Designer & Type Designer

Collaborate with both Bucharest and San Francisco teams.
Assist the Product Design team with assets creation, testing and implementation.
Help extended the company's visual language.
March 2019 - February 2021 Romania

Redi Pay And Pick LTD

Senior Product Designer

Direct collaboration with Product Managers for a good understanding of business objectives and user needs also helping to identify the functionality and content of products.

Conducting strict competitive & data analysis also research with a design point of view in order to determine user habits, motivations & market opportunities.

Conducting human-centered design sprints to identify and iterate in order to elaborate proper design assets and also deliver user stories & flows, actionable wireframes, testable interactive prototypes, based off user feedback, market dynamics and technological constraints.

Deliver detailed design specifications like behavior and micro-interactions to development teams and collaborate with them on the smallest details.

Design Concept Creation for Mobile Based Applications, phone & tablet, iOS or Android platforms.

Design Concept Creation for Print & Editorial Environments.

Building Stock Holder presentations for Products in order to facilitate a better understanding of resource consumption.

Help create a common design language between teams and departments for better communication and understanding.
April 2017 - September 2018 London, United Kingdom

Passenger1

Senior Product Designer

+ Collaborate with project managers and developers to create travel software user interface designs in an agile environment.
+ Improve overall usability ok existing wireframes and translate to design.
+ Design and maintain cross-platform applications.
+ Design and sustain extensible and responsive designs and layouts for the Passenger1 web application.
+ Design sales materials and maintain brand assets
September 2016 - March 2018 Seattle, Washington, United States

Mandarine Inc

Head of Design Department (Project Based)

— Applying conceptual thinking to generate ideas, visuals and other design services across multiple digital mediums (web, mobile, tablets, infographics, events, mediums, branding, editorials, campaigns and so on).
— The production of sketches, drafts for visualizing ideas and concepts.
— Understanding marketing initiatives, strategic positioning and target audience.
— Cooperating with the design team in all digital and media disciplines.
— Take tasks from concepts to final execution inside the deadline.
— Responsibilities management and delegation towards the designers in my team and other team mates and giving art direction at the same time.
— Supervising and enhancing the workflow inside the design department.
— Holding project presentations towards setting a common visual language on ongoing projects.
September 2016 - October 2016 Bucharest, Romania

Kalon Global Group

Visual Designer

UI Design
Branding / Identity
Editorial Materials
Print Layouts
March 2015 - Bucharest, Romania

F#

Art Director

November 2014 - Present London, United Kingdom

Office Beacon

Art Director / Visual Graphic Designer

June 2014 - October 2014 Redondo Beach, California, United States

Catur Agency

Visual Graphic Designer

April 2014 - June 2014 Redondo Beach, California, United States

MBE - Web Agency

Visual Graphic Designer • UI/UX Designer • Visual Adviser

Visual Graphic Designer • UI/UX Designer • Visual Adviser
January 2012 - Bucharest, Romania

Katalyst Development

Web Designer - Front-End Developer

Web Designer - Front-End Developer
January 2011 - December 2011 Bucarest, Romania

Machteam Soft

Web Design - Front-End Developer

Web Design - Front-End Developer
May 2010 - December 2010 Bucarest, Romania

Languages

English (Fluent),
Italian (Conversational),
Romanian (Native),

Awards

Awwwards.com

Honorable Mention

2014

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Branding & Identity, Editorial Design, Mobile Design, Print Design, Product Design, Prototyping, UI Design , UI/UX Design, UX Design, Web Design, ZBrush,