CV / Résumé
Nik Gulak
Senior Product Designer
Email:
ngulak@protonmail.com
LinkedIn:
Portfolio:
ngulak.com/portfolio
Location:
Poznań, Poland
Summary
I have a passion for creating products that are not only visually appealing but also intuitive and user-friendly. My expertise includes user research, wireframing, prototyping, product strategy and user-centered design. I have worked on various FinTech and EdTech projects, maintaining large design systems for applications used by thousands of users.
Along with my design skills, I am also skilled in coding, which allows me to work effectively with development teams and ensure that my designs are technically feasible.
Additionally I am committed to mentoring emerging designers, within the industry to foster their growth and development.
Experience
Product Designer
November 2023 – Present
Warsaw, Poland (Full-Time)
As a Product Designer at Future Mind, I specialize in the user experience and visual design of mobile applications for some of Poland's famous brands. My role also involves creating compelling visual concepts to captivate new clients, enhancing the company's visibility by showcasing our projects, and designing interactive prototypes to facilitate user testing and ensure optimal user experience.
Product Designer
at Fireart Studio
March 2022 – November 2023
Warsaw, Poland (Full-Time)
As a Product Designer at Fireart, I maintained and enhanced the design system of a mobile application for a world famous bank. By ensuring a consistent, user-friendly design language, I helped to achieve the following results:
Improved the app’s rating in the App Store from 3 stars to 4.7 stars.
Reduced inconsistency around different products across the company.
Accelerated onboarding for new designers to 2 weeks through creating extensive documentation.
Improved accessibility of the mobile app by following WCAG and W3C guidelines.
Product Designer
at AppVerk
June 2021 – March 2022
Poznań, Poland (Full-Time)
As a Product Designer I used my user-centered design skills and attention to detail to enhance the user experience of the financial app for a SAAS company. I conducted UX research, prepared prototypes for usability testings and designed assets for developers. The main achievements that I've helped the company with are:
Sped up design-to-development process, by defining tokens and enhancing the design system, reducing project delivery times by 22%.
Improved usability by simplifying navigation with the new information architecture, leading to a 38% increase in user task completion rates.
Achieved a 18% reduction in new user support contacts by redesigning the user onboarding process.
UI/UX Designer
at Crafton
June 2019 – February 2021
Poznań, Poland (Full-Time)
As a UI/UX Designer at Crafton, I have been designing websites and mobile apps, creating wireframes and prototypes for clients from Saudi Arabia. With my design skills and expertise in user experience, I have been able to create innovative and user-friendly digital products that have helped our clients to achieve their business goals, namely:
Secured a successful tender win for the client by crafting a winning design concept, competing with 20 others.
Validated design concepts with wireframes and prototypes that were tested with users.
Conducted over 5 workshops to satisfy clients needs and identify user pain points.
Ensured correct implementation of designs through collaboration with developers.
UI/UX Designer
Freelance
September 2017 – June 2019
Online, Worldwide
As a freelance UI/UX designer, I have been creating visually stunning and user-friendly digital products for clients worldwide. I specialized in designing websites and mobile apps that not only look great, but also provide a seamless user experience.
Successfully delivered projects for the clients from 7 different countries (USA, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and more).
Conducted over 5 user interviews to gain insights into user behavior and preferences.
Created wireframes, hi-fi prototypes and aligned them with rapidly changing trends.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E./B.Eng.)
at Collegium Da Vinci
2017 – 2021
Poznań, Poland (Full-Time)
Major: Information Technology
Specialty: Mobile applications
Courses
UX Design Professional Certificate (7/7)
Google, 2024, Credential ID: YZYBZPAW9H8K
Facilitating UX Workshops
Nielsen Norman Group, 2022
Design Thinking Workshops
Nielsen Norman Group, 2022
Skills
Product Design Skills
Product Thinking, Product Development, User research, Market research, Design Systems, Accessibility, Wireframing, Prototyping, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design-to-Development Handoff, UI Design.
Design Tools
Figma, Sketch, Framer, Adobe Creative Suite (XD, Photoshop, Illustrator), Spline, Jitter.video, Notion, Miro, Jira, Confluence, AI (ChatGPT, DALL-E), HTML, CSS, Javascript, Swift.
Soft Skills
Product Thinking, Product Development, User research, Market research, Design Systems, Accessibility, Wireframing, Prototyping, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design-to-Development Handoff, UI Design.
Languages
English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian
Volunteering
Design Mentor
ADPList, 2023 – Present
