Polina Ziemlinska

Being a Senior Product Designer in Catena Media requires to have strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. With the demand for good user experience, I’m working on creating clean, consistent, and thoughtful designs through human-centered and systemic approaches. My main goal for 2019 is to deliver and maintain a Design System for all main products to keep up with the pace of business growth.

Working in startup environment, I was responsible for: lead the visual part of the product; work in collaboration with UX Lead and Motion Designer; translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and transform them into intuitive and functional user interfaces; collaborate with the team to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders; establish and promote design guidelines.

My key responsibilities were: creating concept of the applications and web-platforms for the pre-sales (3-5 screens); designing MVP for different verticals: defining personas, writing user scenarios and story maps, creating wireframes and Interactive prototypes for desktop and mobile applications; creating pages for corporate site; helping marketing team with creation of brand visual identity (banners, presentations and more).

Prestigio is an International brand that for more than 15 years has offered a wide range of consumer electronics for home, education and business (e-commerce). In Prestigio I was designing landing pages and digital marketing materials.

We collaborated closely with startups and established brands to develop digital products from scratch or leverage their existing products. The process of design that I worked on any project in AGENTE included: competitor research; sketching; wireframing, high-fidelity UI and clickable prototypes; style guides of brand. Also my day-to-day routine included creation of promo designs for the internal project Workdone. (which, unfortunately, doesn't exist anymore).

In Coding Staff I was working on the redesign of e-commerce project (foreign online store) as Web Designer.

DGPRO was my first full-time employment after graduation. Here I learned what is human-centered design, conversion rate optimization, how to use golden ratio in your work, how to create efficient designs and delight your customer. My design work included creation of: landing pages; corporate sites; creative concepts; advertising campaigns; technical design as drawing icons and retouching, participation in daily brainstorming.