Artem Arefin

Leadership, UI / Visual Design, UX Design / Research

Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Hello! 👋

My name is Artem. I tackle structural and architectural problems by thoughtfully organizing functionality into pages and workflows to meet user needs and match their mental models.

I believe I know that implementing an idea without first confirming the hypothesis in the real world, or blindly copying other market players leads to solutions that don't bring value to the end user. Market Research and Product Concept make them responsive to test ideas on real people to determine whether we've hit the target before building the big product.

Subconsciously, all people stretch to something that is systemic and beautiful. Great design is never just something fancy. At first great design is correct accents, at second - beautiful forms and colors at the end.

Work Experience

Temabit

Senior User Experience Designer

— leading multiple projects across the product lifecycle, set the vision for user experience, and present design rationale in a convincing manner;
— partners closely with designers, product managers, engineers, and researchers to translate user goals into elegant, memorable design solutions;
— creating wireframes, storyboards, journey maps, prototypes, production-ready interface designs and assets, and whiteboard sketches;
— defining and execute user testing and gather actionable insights for design adjustments and improvements;
— using design thinking techniques to help define the right problems to solve;
— designing digital products across multiple channels and platforms, for both general and targeted public consumption.
December 2020 - Present Los Angeles, California, United States

Legal Advice Middle East

Principal Product Designer

— collaborate with user researchers, product managers, data scientists, developers to frame problems and take ideas from ideation through implementation;
— normalize user-oriented tasks, business and engineering goals, solve existing problems and formulate a user experience strategy;
— design user experience, including low / highly detailed prototypes, mental maps for interacting with project participants;
— check the usability and user experience and suggest constructive ideas for improvement.
December 2019 - December 2020 United Arab Emirates

Upwork

Senior User Experience Consultant

— created research plans in collaboration with senior teammates, conduct primary and secondary research, and distill insights to actionable user experience strategies;
— I did design artifacts to support communication with clients and stakeholders and help define and shape digital direction and vision;
— synthesized user research and business requirements into powerful user experiences;
— I iteratively created and annotated wireframes and interactive prototypes through collaboration with ui designers, developers, and testers.
January 2019 - December 2019 Santa Clara, California, United States

TouchCast

Lead UX Designer

— designed effective and delightful experiences that solved a real user problem for clients and created value for their business;
— accompanied every feature and product I worked on from idea through to launch and iteration. I owned all stages of the design process;
— worked in close collaboration with user research to understand user problems, validated hypotheses and iterate;
— helped teams to improve as a team and company. I contributed to an inclusive and positive working environment for everyone, ensured leverage design effectively, interviewed potential new team members, introduced new practices, mentored others, and helped company to build a more user-centered culture.
June 2017 - February 2019 New York, United States

UDTech

Senior User Experience Designer

— worked in agile teams alongside projects managers and engineered as a full-stack user experience researcher / designer;
— organized and led design reviews for all stages of conceptual development;
— worked on the user experience across multiple products, on mobile and web;
— helped engineers and product managers to define both the long-term strategy and the short-term tactics for clients products;
— sometimes worked on very broadly defined, loose concepts, and sometimes on narrowly defined, tactical features;
— I have various experience, from copy animations to business model, during designing.
September 2013 - June 2017 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Trend

Senior Interaction Designer

— defined, designed and built great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation;
— I had collaborations with engineering teams and product managers to received thoughtfully visual and interaction design solutions that delivered usable and desired aims to customers while understanding technical constraints and effectively balancing quality and speed of delivery;
— I distilled complex ideas, large amounts of data and viewpoints to their essence while keeping an eye on the bigger pictures and considering every touch point along the user journey;
— I delivered design documentation and other artifacts for use by a wide range of audiences including product development, customer programs, sales and marketing outlining proposed solutions to gain team alignment;
— participated in customer engagements to validate assumptions and concepts, gathered input on proposed workflows and refined the product design;
— gathered and utilized customer usage, adoption metrics and other analytics data to inform design decisions.
August 2012 - September 2013 Wellington, New Zealand

Noosphere Ventures

Design Manager

— I did great contribution to fresh thinking for problem-solving or process improvements;
— delivered prescient users insights across diverse areas of focus that are non-obvious and lead to innovative design solutions;
— I gathered customers and stakeholder’s inputs and compare with against existing factors to effectively present a feature or product area to end-users and customers;
— built consensus across diverse teams through effective communication and presented to senior executives as well as to large groups of end-users.
May 2012 - August 2012 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Lunapack

Senior Design Engineer

— worked closely with product management to determine key customer driven product goals and tradeoffs;
— conducted research to drive future technology roadmaps;
— I did drove the prioritization and execution of print process activities;
— developed, tested, refined builded styles to meet customer requirements;
— applied design of experiments (DOE) and other experimental techniques and problem solving methods to drive characterization and understanding of the physics and chemistry of the technology;
— applied statistical tools (t-tests, control charts, etc.) to analyze data. Conducted MSA (Measurement System Analysis) studies to ensure measurement tools are capable and characterized.
February 2011 - April 2012 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Dinas

Print Production Specialist

— designed and conducted margins experiments to create solutions that are robust to variation. Drove development of customer driven specifications;
— collaborated with Chemists, Software Engineers, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, while creating, specifying, solving problems and optimizing printing processes;
— developed, communicate and document engineering activities;
— developed and maintain strong relationships with key leaders and partners across company to leverage their contributions and provide assistance as appropriate.
March 2009 - February 2011 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Print World

Print Production Specialist

— I managed production workflow, set standards and processes for the rest of the team;
— I did proofs and samples for consultation, designed quick edits and other documents according editions of the clients;
— conducted print design and image editing work from conception to execution;
— provided solutions for security printing;
— worked proactively according to development calendar to stay ahead of timelines printing;
— managed a team with two direct reports and one apprentice.
April 2007 - February 2009 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Terzia

Principal Designer

— researched the prints and the print application ideas through market and online;
— I did maintained concept and presentation boards;
— managed all information sharing across Design teams for various product categories and cross-functional partners such as PD teams and merchandising teams;
— I did prints through original artwork or purchased files, clean, color separate and created color-way options;
— attended weekly standing project and graphics team meetings to track schedules and production timing across multiple projects;
— provided technical guidance and input across multiple printing processes to ensure that final printed packaging meets quality & color expectations.
September 2006 - April 2007 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Education

Zaporozhye National Technical University

Bachelor's Degree / The Faculty of Engineering and Physics

The Faculty of Engineering and Physics was organized in 1946 to train specialists in the fields of physical optics, electronics, radiography, and nuclear physics.
September 2006 - June 2012 Ukraine

Zaporozhye Electrotechnical College

Bachelor's Degree / The Faculty of Applied Materials Science

Development of technological processes of manufacturing of machine parts and tools, drafting of technological problems for the design of industrial equipment, calculation and design of tooling, as well as the development of control programs for machines with CNC.
September 2002 - June 2006 Ukraine

Languages

English (Conversational),
Ukrainian (Native),
Russian (Native),

Awards

CSS DESIGN AWARDS

Best User Interface, User Experience and Innovation. Special Kudos Awards

2017

Skills

(CSS), Cascading Style Sheets, HTML, Human-Centered Design, Interaction Design, Mobile App Redesign, Mobile App Strategy, Mobile UI Design, Product Design, Service Design, User Experience Strategy, User Interface Design, UX/UI Prototyping, Web Design, Wireframing,

Volunteer

Keynote Speaker / Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

I delivered a speech within “Design Thinking. Methodology of the future” event at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"​. During this presentation, I covered such topics as brainstorming, principles, and methods of effective work, design / prototyping and testing of the product.


Design Mentor / Designed.org

I have joined the Designed.org initiative as a Design Mentor and supporting designers from around the world to get inspired, polish their portfolios, help to find new jobs and be more productive.