Mariia Karakutsa
Angestellt, Lead UI/UX Designer, RecMan AS
About me
Stemming from my engineering background, I'm a UI/UX designer, who values using precision and meticulousness to create software UI that is highly functional and convenient. Self-sufficient and methodical, I am a strategic thinker and active collaborator, focusing on delivering extensible solutions. Leveraging my ability to structure information and translate it into a visual form, I can create a consistent UI style in multiple complex projects simultaneously. I pride myself on creating a design system for RecMan software products that allows to enhance the efficiency of design-development processes and to positively impact the customer experience of over 1000 companies that use our software.
Timeline
Professional experience for Mariia Karakutsa
Current 4 years and 2 months, since Nov 2019
Lead UI/UX Designer
RecMan AS
• Grounded a design system that consists of 800+ UI elements and saves countless hours of work for designers and developers every day • Designed and maintained 30+ projects (web-, iOS- and Android applications) that consist of 50+ screens each contributed to increasing the development team from 5 to 38 members • Maintained multiple projects and the design system simultaneously while being the only designer in the team for 2,5 years • 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
• 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