Julia Malkova

Lead Product UIX Designer

Russian Federation
The better I do - the better I feel.

I take personal responsibility for any detail of my work and my aim is to get the most effective, simple and aesthetic result.

I'm passionately interested in challenging tasks and researching for intricate results.

Work Experience

Headliner

Lead Product UIX Designer

Managing key design questions for company products in collaboration with product owners, dev team and marketing team managers. Built the concept and philosophy of the brand and visual style for new products. Supported and improved complex UIX solutions for fintech and investment products.

• Created an investment mobile product UIX and design system from scratch. Built its brand idea. Formed the architecture of the project and its business objectives in close collaboration with product owner. Found a suitable design solution that did not require a lot of development resources in terms of labor costs.
• Reduced the cost and simplified the process of achieving marketing goals by designing a flexible email constructor with custom parameters for internal use.
• Sped up and simplified the workflow of design team and newly hired designers by mentoring and implementing design tools. Ran design critiques and reviews to share my expertise.
• Optimized design decisions regarding development costs while maintaining UX quality.
• Increased design consistency by building a unified design system being used for multiple company products. The system is based on conditional variables and variable modes, design tokens, library dependencies, resizable adaptive components with flexible spacing system.
• Improved the speed and quality of UIX design approval and UX testing with the use of сlickable high-fidelity prototypes and interface animations in Figma.
• Analysed and resolved UIX problems by researchments, user interviews, A/B testing, metrix analysis for launched products.
March 2023 - Present United Arab Emirates

Cryptosphere Systems Limited

Lead Product UIX Designer

Builded financial/cryptocurrency software products over the full lifecycle from design to production and ongoing design support and enhancement.

• Comminucated closely with management, stakeholders and devs. Managed stakeholders requirements and incorporated them into the product design.
• Controlled the quality of the final result of solutions from graphic designers.
• Translated design concepts and complex ideas into intuitive and user-friendly user experiences for mobile and web.
• Participated in the design of browser online games with rich graphics of the UI.
• Adapted to shifting priorities and evolving stakeholders needs with agility.
December 2017 - January 2023 Baar, Switzerland

Dathena (Proofpoint Inc.)

User Interface Consultant (Contractor)

Worked in a team of designers on Dathena company (now is a part of Proofpoint, Inc.). Helped with organizational and structural questions of the UIX design.

• Cooperatively organized a unified Figma design system for complex products of the company.
• Helped to describe the design system usage for developers.
• Designed and supported several versions of company's main website.
April 2020 - August 2020 Singapore

PWN Health

UX/UI Designer

Designed user-friendly solutions for existing product in the digital healthcare space (telemedicine).

• Identified UX and UI design problems and devised elegant solutions.
• Made strategic UX decisions related to the core and new functions of the product.
• Took a user-centered design approach while redesigning.
• Made visual UI redesign.
• Translated concepts into user flows and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences for mobile and web.
• Remotely collaborated with New York team to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Designed a complete user experiences for several roles of product users – patients, physicians, and partners.
October 2017 - March 2020 New York, United States

ICar Asia Limited

UX Consultant (Contractor)

Helped to organize several versions of main company's website and internal apps designs.
May 2017 - August 2017 Malaysia

The Booking Factory

UX/UI & Web Designer

Worked on digital product design from low-fidelity wireframes and clickable prototypes in InVision to final design-system for Hotel Property Management System.

• Designed a documentation support based on Atomic Design principles.
• Analysed and tested the best user experience for target groups.
• Managed UX optimization processes with Smart Look testing.
• Handled a number of work under the structure and logic of the design system.
• Developed flexible, modular and component UI with a detailed constitutive UI design system.

https://blog.thebookingfactory.com/time-to-meet-the-team-meet-our-ui-ux-web-designer-julia-945051541034
September 2016 - August 2017 United Kingdom

Freelance

Senior Product Designer

I work on international world-class digital products directly with customers from US, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Malaysia and many others. I help to find out the design needs for existing products and design requirements for complex projects from scratch.

• Product design for large international projects: monitoring and management web applications in health care, insurance, agroculture, banking and cryptocurrency areas.
• Succesfully collaborated with remote international teams of devs, managers and product owners.
• Deepened into UIX specialization for CRM, HRM, SaaS web applications for marketing and analytics, ERP systems with administration panels, dashboards, infographics and compex data.
• Created custom scenarios and UIX for analytical systems from scratch and with brief.
• Optimized product UX for a wide audience of product usage.
• Researched, optimized and simplified user flows and scenarios.
July 2017 - Present

Smart People LLC

UX/UI & Web Designer

Participated in product design for large hotel management system and other web, mobile and desktop applications from scratch: from low-fidelity wireframes and clickable prototypes in InVision to final design systems in Sketch, Figma, Abode XD.

• Successfully redesigned and supported existing projects.
• Worked in close collaboration with art director, illustration designer and two other UIX designers on several internal and outsource projects.
• Justified presented design solutions by having a direct communication with stakeholders.
• Created documented design systems based on Atomic Design principles.
• Optimised UX for target groups with Smart Look and A/B testing, clickable prototypes testing.
• Provided UI animations and basic 3D works in Blender.
• Got my first design team lead experience. Have set up design processes with the management and a team of 2 designers and a copywriter. Communicated directly with customers.
September 2016 - July 2017 Russian Federation

7bits

Product Designer

• Designed UI for complex cross-platform applications and web services.
• Designed landing pages and websites: e-commerce, Internet-of-things, social and SaaS projects.
• Communicated directly with customers In English.
• Tested and optimized UX.
• Provided adaptive and mobile design.
• Supported existing projects, redesigned and optimized user flows to make them user-friendly.
• Did branding / logo design for products, company and IT events.
• Made graphic design for printed materials and merchandise: company stands for IT conferences, office navigation signs, brochures, T-shirts, stickers and more.
November 2015 - September 2016 Russian Federation

7bits

Product Designer (Intern)

• Working on startups from scratch
• Wireframing
• Iterative UX testing
• UI design for adaptive applications and websites
• Branding, logo
• Team work with front-end and back-end developers (Agile and Scrum)
July 2015 - October 2015 Russian Federation

Education

Omsk State University

Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mathematics and IT

Activities and Societies: Graph theory, Game theory, HTML+CSS, Assembler, C / C ++, Java, SQL, 1C: Enterprise 8.2, participated in intercollegiate olympiads on differential equations (diploma degree II)
Russian Federation

Languages

Русский (Native),
English (Advanced),
French (Beginner),
German (Beginner),

Awards

Behance Portfolio Review Omsk

Best Digital Design

2017

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, App Usability Analysis, Design Lead, Design Management, Figma, Graphic Design, Mobile UI Design, Principle, Sketch, Structural Analysis, Usability Testing, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Web Design, Wireframing,

Cambridge ESOL English Certificate

Got International English Intermediate Level (B1) in July 2010.
Certificate Licence Number: 0027834820