Finland

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Study Abroad Semester

Bachelor's degree

Mykolas Vaitiekunas

Senior UX Designer

Usability Testing

Prototyping

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Team player

User research

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

Breaking into tech

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

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

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

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

Presenting your work with impact

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

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

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

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

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

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

Working with engineers

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

- Redesigned a product leaderboard that is used by 1M+ users per day
- Designed a security awareness training feature that reduced churn and enabled new sales
- Worked in the team responsible for user facing part of the platform, awarded Best Usability award by G2 (Winter 2023)
- Designed a cyber security e-learning platform with robust elements of gamification

Worked in a small agile team improving functionality of the Interaction Builder and designed new product that solving 3rd party integration pain-points

- Digital designer, responsible for company website, landing pages, email, and campaign collaterals
- Created and maintained a UI design system for the marketing department, including a component library and guidelines
- Created visual assets - icons, animation, video/photo editing

- Branding and brand development. Responsible for developing brand assets and brand guides for client companies.
- Web design for client companies. UI/UX development and back-end implementation.
- Packaging design - updating existing packaging and developing new concepts.

- Managing local web content for a multinational electronics company (product pages, campaings, new product page creation, site updates).
- Content management - quality control of language, visuals and layouts.
- Helping with global product and campaign launches (in task related to web content preparation).

- Project based web design work for a web design studio in Lithuania.
- UI/UX design for client companies. Website design for small and medium sized companies.

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