Romania

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Interaction Design

Design Systems

BA and MA

Milena Taranu

Product Designer

Typography

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Analytical skills

Accessibility

Conversational AI

Data visualisation

Human computer interaction

Illustration

Information architecture

CAD design

User research

Axure

ChatGPT

Figma

Jira

Miro

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Autocad

Confluence

Product analytics

Product roadmap

Qualitative research

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

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

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

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

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management 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

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

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

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

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

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

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

Working with product and engineering

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

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Helping individuals and small teams to create human-centric digital products with a meaningful impact in fields like education, social or civic causes, health & wellbeing, innovation and research.

Managed the creation of a complex Design System while delivering scalable design solutions for enterprise products, contributing to Bitdefender’s industry leadership.

Making professional interior design services more accessible for everyone.
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Key Contributions & Achievements

• Designed a user-centric platform and innovative web-app, simplifying the process of accessing remote interior design solutions.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with researchers, marketing specialists, and software developers to align on goals and deliver impactful results.
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Core Responsibilities

• Led user research to guide website and app design, ensuring a user-first approach.
• Designed wireframes, prototypes, and user flows to create intuitive and optimized interactions.
• Defined interaction models and conducted extensive user testing to evaluate and improve experiences.
• Presented high-fidelity designs to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and delivering polished solutions.
• Contributed to branding efforts, reinforcing a strong and cohesive visual identity.

Marketing and Managing Partner: led strategic and operational initiatives to drive business growth and build strong relationships with partners, collaborators and contributors.

Engaged in remote collaboration for a range of interior design projects, specializing in 3D modeling and digital rendering. Consistently delivered interior design solutions, enhancing the functionality and aesthetics of spaces.

Played a key role in developing graphic designs, logos, and brand identities that contributed to the success of marketing campaigns. Leveraged design skills to enhance digital marketing initiatives, creating visually engaging content that resonated with target audiences.

Planned, developed, delivered interior design and custom furniture projects that met aesthetic and functional goals and enhanced users' experiences.

Crafted compelling graphic designs for custom print home products, brochures, catalogs, and brand identities, meeting client expectations.

•  Drove interior design and product design projects from concept to completion, consistently delivering aesthetically pleasing and functional solutions.
• Managed the successful implementation of design projects, ensuring that designs were brought to life in accordance with client expectations.
• Demonstrated strong project management skills, overseeing all aspects of design projects, from planning to execution.
• Prioritized user-centered design principles to create interiors and products that resonated with end-users.

Crafted compelling design concepts for brand identity and user engagement, boosting market visibility through: digital illustration, graphic design, visual design.

Milena Taranu🇷🇴

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