Mariia Karakutsa

is working from home. 🏡

Angestellt, Design System Designer, ALDI SÜD
Düsseldorf, Germany

Skills

Advanced Design System
UI Design
Figma
Wireframe
Prototyping
SaaS
Mobile App Design
Web Application Design
User Experience
User Interface
User Experience Design
Creativity
Empathy
Writing skills
Mentoring
design tokens
Token studio
Figma variables
GitLab

Timeline

Professional experience for Mariia Karakutsa

  • Current 1 year and 9 months, since May 2024

    Design System Designer

    ALDI SÜD

    • Maintained and enhanced the Design System, restructuring components to reduce their complexity and improve flexibility. • Established a design tokens system and participated in the creation of the UI Library in Storybook • Authored documentation detailing component usage, anatomy, and accessibility best practices.

  • 4 years and 5 months, Nov 2019 - Mar 2024

    Lead UI/UX Designer

    RecMan AS

    • Grounded and maintained the components system while being the only designer in the team for 2,5 years • Designed and maintained 30+ projects, which contributed to the increase in the development team's productivity and resulted in the doubling of the number of customers • Created design for a whole ecosystem of products running on different platforms: web, iOS, and Android applications • Hired, onboarded, and mentored a junior UI/UX designer

  • 3 months, Mar 2021 - May 2021

    UI Design Teacher

    IT Education Academy (ITEA)

    Educated a group of 15 students in a short course of 16 lectures for 48 hours total, not including time for lecture preparation and checking students’ individual projects

  • 1 year and 3 months, Sep 2018 - Nov 2019

    UI/UX Designer

    DOIT Software

    • Designed and maintained 3 projects in total • Redesigned a task management system UI and provided a customer with a large UI library • Was a member of the most successful team

  • 2 years, Oct 2016 - Sep 2018

    Graphic and Web Designer

    STUDY.UA

    • Designed print materials of any complexity: books, billboards, brochures, catalogs, flyers, business cards, stationery, and decor, the circulation of which reached up to 10,000 copies • Created ads for social media and promotional landing pages • Introduced Figma to a design team which significantly increased its efficiency

Educational background for Mariia Karakutsa

  • 5 years and 10 months, Sep 2010 - Jun 2016

    Chemical Technologies of Timber and Vegetable Matter Processing

    National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'

Languages

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

  • Ukrainian

    First language

  • Russian

    First language

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