Germany

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Ecaterina Litvinova

UX/UI designer

Medium

medium

Usability Testing

Typography

Quantitative research

Product analytics

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Analytical skills

Accessibility

Blog writing

Content strategy

Design systems

Information architecture

User research

Product roadmap

Trello

UserTesting

Webflow

Zeplin

Adobe XD

ChatGPT

Figma

Hotjar

HTML

InVision

Jira

Maze

Miro

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Google Analytics

Sketch

Time management

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

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

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

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

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

Presenting your work with impact

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

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

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

- Guided mentees in assessing their skillsets and developing personalized career plans to achieve their professional goals.
- Shared theoretical and practical knowledge as well as best practices on various aspects of Product design.
- Provided coaching to overcome personal blockers and offered support in navigating professional challenges.

Adidas B2B
- Played a key role in defining, designing, and testing user flows, significantly increasing customer trust and optimizing the onboarding of new clients worldwide.
- Conducted user interviews, participated in Design sprints, and performed usability testing, leading to substantial product improvements.
- Enhanced the design system by creating new components, simplifying structures, and organizing documentation, improving collaboration.
- Led the migration of design documents, streamlining file organization and removing outdated files.
- Assisted in interviewing and onboarding new design colleagues, accelerating their contributions to the product.

Straighterline
- Conducted a comprehensive UX audit of the existing design, emphasizing the importance of user needs and advocating for quantitative and qualitative research.
- Worked on the information architecture of a white-label platform for online education.
- Collaborated with the team to create a journey map and personas for a more user-centered approach.
- Contributed to the development of a new design system by adding structure, components, and documentation.

Athletes Hospitality
- Played a pivotal role in the strategy team, contributing significantly to the project's discovery phase.
- Actively participated in a Design sprint, collecting insights, defining components, creating flow and screen designs, and developing a high-fidelity prototype.
- Tested the prototype with users and compiled findings into a comprehensive presentation, contributing to the initial set of components and fonts for future designs and development.

HQ Social:
- Played an integral role in the strategy team, actively contributing to the analysis and evaluation of the project.
- Conducted a UX audit of the existing design.
- Created a Design Strategy action plan for the product.
- Presented the Strategy plan, results of UX audit, and all findings to the stakeholders.

Molotok:
- Conducted a comprehensive competitor's analysis.
- Crafted a compelling landing page and marketing materials for the Stand-up comedy community in Lyon.

Finrange:
- Contributed to the enhancement of the design system.
- Designed and implemented several new pages for the platform, including the subscription page, user profile page, business profile page, and financial analytics page.

Organizing events and meet-ups for designers in Moldova. Creating and conducting an online presence, posting articles, videos, information about learning materials for beginners. Facilitating and taking part in online exhibitions before and during a pandemic.

- Created the information architecture for a white-label gaming platform.
- Developed a tailored design system to meet the specific needs of white-label projects.
- Utilized qualitative data, analyzed user patterns of actions, and conducted surveys.
- Collaborated on the information architecture of the platform.
- Designed several user flows, incorporating gamification elements.

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