Nikos Kotsakis
Freiberuflich, Senior UX/IA Designer, Freelancer
Berlin, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Nikos Kotsakis
Current 7 years and 6 months, since Jan 2016
Senior Service, Business and UX Designer
notallbad | Digital Consulting & Experience Design hub
Testing and establishing dynamic service models, the main goal is to offer multilevel support to companies and projects on their active workflow. Also, as a team, we work with companies of all sizes to apply innovative design systems and shape their business proposition and create customer and user-centered products and services.
Current 10 years and 11 months, since Aug 2012
Senior UX/IA Designer
Freelancer
Working mostly in the pre-production phase of healthcare products conducting ux research and testing as well as high-level concepts and MVP definition and contributing on the planning of the digital strategy for various healthcare products.
As the Lead Designer for the V-App, the core V by Vodafone app with nine products, a V-SIM and a platform released across six of the largest EU markets, I worked in close collaboration with all stakeholders - product owners, dev team, solution designers, business analysts etc. - on concepts as well as implementation support and I have been involved in all Vodafone CIoT streams, like the V-Home (SmartThings Connect by Samsung), V-Auto, V-SOS Band, Kippy, Arlo, Movetrack TCL, TCL Move and Trackimo.
6 months, Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Design Mentor
CODE University of Applied Sciences
As Design Mentor I had the chance to dive into mentoring, and have an influence to the future of design and technology. In close collaboration with professors and other mentors, we shaped the curriculum for Interaction Design degree and its definition with the aim to facilitate students through a practice-based learning process, built across human-centred design methods and creative entrepreneurship and to create space for exploration on design ethics, and technology’s impact in local and global scale.
2 years and 4 months, Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
Senior UX Designer - Information Architect
Momedica GmbH
As a UX Designer at Momedica I worked in close collaboration with the product team from the initial ideation to the final product delivery, supporting all development phases and had the opportunity to familiarise myself with some of the medical protocols and legal requirements as well as the obstacles in the communication between the medical staff and the patients.
9 months, Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Visual Designer
Cisar - consulting and solutions GmbH
2 years and 3 months, May 2010 - Jul 2012
Cofounder, working as Art Director and Conceptual Designer
SOCIALTHING, Social Design Agency in Athens
1 year and 2 months, Sep 2009 - Oct 2010
Art Director and Illustrator
PPD, Design Studio in Athens
8 months, Feb 2009 - Sep 2009
Graphic Designer, Illustrator
PPD, Design Studio in Athens
6 months, Aug 2008 - Jan 2009
Assistant in Creative Department
NRGMEDIA, Publications Agency in Athens
1 year and 10 months, Nov 2006 - Aug 2008
Internship in Creative Department
NRGMEDIA, Publications Agency in Athens
Educational background for Nikos Kotsakis
2011 - 2011
Design Thinking Bootcamp
Hasso Plattner Institute
2 years and 10 months, Oct 2005 - Jul 2008
GRAPHIC DESIGN
AKTO
Illustration, Photography, Visual Communication, Typography, Editorial Design, Advertising, Conceptual Design, Strategy and Branding Visuallization
4 years and 10 months, Oct 2005 - Jul 2010
VISUAL COMMUNICATION & GRAPHIC DESIGN
Middlesex University
BA Thesis: Signage System Final Research: History and Anatomy of Heraldry
Languages
English
First language
Greek
First language
German
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