Hungary

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Donat Bali Papp

Lead Product Designer

Usability Testing

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Leadership

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Webflow

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

Miro

Sketch

Stakeholder management

Conflict resolution

Typography

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Held lectures and mentored young designers. My teaching focused on the ever-changing landscape of mobile platform patterns.

Advised, consulted and worked in team-based setups through ff.next and independently in freelance engagements for a wide range of organizations.

+ Led the creation of a comprehensive cross-platform design system.

+ Managed 2 designers, both of them progressed into seniors.

+ Pioneered a leveling and performance evaluation system that was successfully implemented, contributing significantly to the company's operational framework.

Shaped zooming presentation and video tools for over 100 million monthly active users to help them connect and communicate more meaningfully with their audiences. I primarily concentrated on developing a cross-product asset library, the zooming presentation editor and Prezi Video.

 + Led the design for one of Prezi’s flagship products, the presentation editor.

+ Partnered with cross-functional teams of product managers, engineers, data analysts, user researchers, copywriters and more to evolve the world's largest library of reusable assets across three products.

+ Implemented design strategies that improved the ease of navigation and accessibility of video players.

+ Collaborated with wide range of disciplines, created design concepts, wireframes and interactive prototypes to refine features of Prezi Video view pages.

Co-led, planned and managed the UI course where I facilitated countless meetings and in-house events.

Held lectures and mentored young designers. My teaching focused on the indispensable topics of design ethics, mobile interactions and UI design.

Proudly helped our business to become one of the largest travel brands with over 100 million monthly active users. I had a particular focus on leading design initiatives to provide intuitive first-time user experiences (FTUX) on iOS and Android.

+ Led the design of signup and login experiences.

+ Shipped a completely new interactive onboarding experience with our cross-functional team.

+ Developed a semi-autonomous solution for designing and localizing our App Store visuals in 32 languages.

+ Teamed up with a fellow researcher to devise a dynamic visual system for clustering traveller types and predicting changes in travel preferences.

+ Conducted extensive user research and analysis to deeply understand user needs.

Joined the world's most iconic music discovery platform at an exciting time and designed for over 300 million monthly active users. My efforts were mainly around the core recognition experience on iOS, Android and watchOS. Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2018.

+ Led the redesign of Shazam's core music recognition experience on iOS and Android.

+ Ran the revamp of Shazam for watchOS that successfully met Apple’s standards.

+ Pioneered the creation and further development of Shazam's iOS and Android UI kits as well as the foundation of a design system.

+ Stepped into a leadership role by mentoring and guiding interns through the nuances of design processes.

+ Collaborated with designers, product managers and engineers to design and experiment with immersive AR experiences before it was cool.

Partnered with product strategists, engineers and data analysts to enhance the user experience of an award-winning fintech solution improving the financial wellbeing of employees. We grew from 40 to 120 employees with the company under the name Neyber. Neyber was acquired by Salary Finance in 2020.

Responsible for all-things-design in a team that successfully developed and expanded an audiovisual messaging platform, scaling it to 3 million users. Facebook chose us to be tier 1 partner for the Messenger relaunch at the F8 Developer Conference.

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