Gradinar Razvan

Multidisciplinary Senior Designer with experience in roles such as UX UI Designer, Interaction Designer, Product Designer, Visual designer, Graphic designer, 3D Artist. I've worked with over 100 brands, got a Photoshop Master Certificate, 3 UX certifications, over 15 awards and recognition's, published 10 design articles and gained over 10 years experience in the web industry and design industry, while also having a Masters degree in Architecture, scoring the highest grade in university history, according to faculty, representing them at Archiprix - Worlds best graduation projects.

I worked with over 100 companies based in the EU, US, Australia & New Zealand and some of the brands that I worked with include National Geographic, Grolsch, Government, multiple startups and small businesses, tackling a large amount of projects spanning from social networks, e-commerce to mobile applications, building a full UX cycle experience that spans across interaction design, information architecture, prototyping, usability, user research, wireframes, storyboards, mockups, user journeys, user flows, etc incorporating advanced UX skills such as eye tracking, heat maps and so on.

My work has been selected from over 250 people, presenting my UX UI portfolio at Google London to professionals from Google, R/GA, Huge, MadeStudio,etc while my contribution to the community hasn't been left unnoticed, getting thanked by fellow peers from Autodesk, Raiffesen Bank as well as getting invited to exclusive events such as Facebook Elegant Tools.

Working as a contractor / freelancer, led me to managing teams and working with stakeholders & developers directly, handling projects from start to finish by my own or with a team, building solid experience with launch strategies, mvp, road maps, online marketing, seo, gamification, on-boarding, while my personal projects gained 20.000 views, 400 comments and over 100 requests to "hire this guy" in less then 48 hours showcasing my empathy skill.

►SOME HIGHLIGHTS:

✔ +10 years experience in the web industry & design industry, half of which tackling UX projects

✔ +100 brands under my belt working with stakeholders, developers, product managers based in Australia, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Romania

✔ +10 UX & design articles published across a wide variety of topics

✔ +30 UX related skills ( including prototyping, wireframing, storyboarding, full list in my resume )

✔ 3 UX certifications from key influencers: Nir Eyal, Joe Natoli & Oxford learning lab

✔ +300 problems solved, 80 being presented in my portfolio due to NDA

✔ Proven track record of delivering results as seen from my projects listed below

✔ Full UX cycle experience: Interaction design, research, information architecture, visual design

✔ Visual design skills: including wireframing, user interface design, adapting to visual styles

✔ Technical skills: HTML & CSS, SEO, Website optimization, etc

✔ Technical knowledge: API's, CDN, MVC, FTP, SSL and many more presented in my resume

✔ Masters Degree in Architecture ( see my LinkedIn education section to see how this helped )

✔ Cross device experience: web apps, mobile apps, wearable devices

✔ Unique ability to spot problems: writing about 100 UX problems found in Google products and LinkedIn bad UX at it's finest, drafts available on request

✔ Unique ability to drive user engagement, user interactions, user retention via Gamification

✔ Unique ability to understand users familiarity with the market based on their search pattern

✔ Multi-niche experience: web applications , social networks, e-commerce websites, desktop apps, games, smart watch apps and as Web Designer I've designed for almost every niche possible from working with the largest Romanian Political Party ( Government ) and a large Law firm to working with the director of a National Geographic documentary and a US agency collaboration

►► UX PORTFOLIO AVAILABLE AT

http://builtbyg.com/ux-ui-designer-portfolio