Myroslava Verbytska

Product Designer

Kiev, Ukraine
A hands-on product and service designer experienced in all steps of design and delivery with an interest in product management. I lead multidisciplinary teams in designing delightful products that become a viable business, navigating corporate and technical complexity from ideation to launch.

Work Experience

Portside

Product designer

April 2019 - San Francisco, California, United States

Eleken

Design Lead

About:
Eleken is a young independent team based in Kiev, Ukraine that is focused on design and development of web and mobile products. It's convenient for us to cooperate with big brands as well as with startups and everything between.

Responsibilities:
• Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship for a team of Designers;
• Lead creative and holistic thinking across diverse platforms and devices.
• Deliver a UX vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates, that actualize the larger vision over time.
• Build strong relationships and operating rhythms with a team to efficiently implement user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive and well-informed.
Implement culture and principles within the group, while setting new standards in execution and operational excellence.
• Imparting day-to-day design leadership that fosters a shared understanding of the user-centric intersection between design, content, business, and engineering.
July 2016 - April 2019 Ukraine

RBC

Product designer

About:
RBC-Ukraine (Ukrainian RBC-Ukraine) is a Ukrainian news agency specializing in financial, economic, and political news of Ukraine.

Responsibilities:
• Analyzing and conceptualizing ideas. Creating user-flows, wireframes.
• Design corporate and subsidiary sites;
• Design promo and landing pages;
• Design dashboards and admin panels;
• Consulting and collaborative work with designers and front-end teams;
• Provided full-cycle design process: from analysis of ​requirements to developing prototypes ​and further ​to visual design and implementation control;

Technical Environment:
• Mind Mapping: MindMeister
• Wireframing: Adobe Illustrator
• Interactive prototypes: Axure RP, Invision
• Graphic design: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch app.
• Designing interactions and animations: Adobe Photoshop

As a result, I learned to understand business requirements, design user-oriented interfaces and work closely with developers.
September 2015 - May 2016 Kiev, Ukraine

5minut

DTP Designer

About:
Luxprint is urgent souvenir polygraphy specializing in corporate gifts.

Personal Accomplishments:
Completing the whole cycle of polygraphic services - customer service, layout development of business cards, flyers, booklets, cups and t-shirt prints. Prepress, printing, post-press processing.
The main challenge was to be able to support 8 tasks at the same time. This was my first full-time job. I started as a junior designer and grew to the head of the department.

As a result, I learned how to communicate with customers and understand their first-hand requirements. Work more efficiently in multitasking mode. I tried meditation, which helped me cope with the stress and work in the company whole three years :
May 2012 - September 2015 Ukraine

Education

Shevchenko University

Bachelor's degree: International relationships.

September 2010 - May 2015 Kiev, Ukraine

Languages

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

Skills

Design Sprint, Documentation, Figma, Principle, Product Design, Prototype, User Testing,