Akis Apostoliadis

Roles and responsibilities of my position: - Coaching all UX and UI Designers to ensure they build their Design capability and increase their effectiveness in the workplace - Framing the right problems to solve and ideate design solutions in close collaboration with Product, Engineering and Marketing - Facilitating Design Critiques, Design Reviews and other formats with a strong focus on efficient decision-making and Design System alignment - Designs the experience for MRHT digital products (MedNext 10, SHIELD) - Owning and leading the discovery and strategizing phases of a project. Creating new UX design vision, proactively pitching north star UX design vision and influencing product strategy - Using system-level design thinking to drive scalable design solutions - Being a champion for user-centered design culture and best practices in the design team and for cross-functional teams.

A holistic Brand eXperience via Customer eXperience Design & User eXperience Design.
I am dedicated to the creation of visual, verbal and sensory identities that elevate brands to the higher purpose they serve.
Whether it’s a small internal app or a platform for millions of customers, I have the experience to build your product for scale.
I build simple products for complex industries by challenging assumptions with a user-centric lens.
I also help clients translate complicated requirements into easy-to-use products to deliver an experience that helps customers solve problems ultimately driving business value.

Roles and responsibilities of my position: - Owning and leading the discovery and strategizing phases of a project. Creating new UX design vision, proactively pitching north star UX design vision and influencing product strategy - Being a champion for user-centered design culture and best practices in the design team and for cross-functional teams. - Leading & mentoring UX/UI designers - Helping in the development of their career paths and fostering their career growth. - Leading and conducting and analysing user research and customer insight. - Translating business strategy into effective design work. - Overseeing the production of sitemaps, app/user flows, wireframes, and visual design deliverables. - Building and presenting impactful presentations to pitch existing clients and new business opportunities. - Participating in stakeholders meeting and taking strategic decisions - Managing a team of Jr and Sr UX Designers along with other UX/UI designers. - Assigning design tasks to the team and see if they need any inputs. - Taking stakeholders feedback and making necessary changes in design - Improving team skills by training them - Conducting usability testing, focus groups to collect user feedback to make design changes.

Roles and responsibilities of my position: - Working with business stakeholders, project managers and developers in order to understand needs. - Conducting research on customer competition, in the wider market and monitor best practices. - Investigating concepts until they are implemented, reconciling the user needs with client's business needs. - Attending and participating user workshops to be familiar and informed with a project's ongoing research. - Contributing to the company's process by designing an action plan. - Supporting the Head of interaction design and taking initiative to support design logic and specifications. - Designing and implementing design systems. - Undertaking the optimization and maintenance of previously implemented solutions. - Presenting, communicating and documenting design proposals I've developed. - Working as mentor and coach for mid-level/junior team members.

- Lead Digital Product Designer Roles and responsibilities of my position: - Leading & mentoring UX/UI designers - Helping in the development of their career paths and fostering their career growth. - Leading and sometimes conducting and analyzing user research and customer insight. - Translating business strategy into effective design work. - Overseeing the production of sitemaps, app/user flows, wireframes, and visual design deliverables. - Building and presenting impactful presentations to pitch existing clients and new business opportunities. - Participating in stakeholders meeting and taking strategic decisions - Managing a team of Jr. and Sr. UX Designers along with other UX/UI designers. - Assigning design tasks to the team and seeing if they need any inputs. - Taking stakeholders feedback and making necessary changes in design - Improving team skills by training them - Conducting usability testing, focus groups to collect user feedback to make design changes.

Agile Project Management
UI/UX design,
SEO
e-mail marketing campaigns
PPC campaigns
Web Analytics
Strategy Consulting
website optimization
online marketing campaigns.
Developed brand strategy for health industry companies.
Created flash web-sites, banner campaigns and online marketing campaigns for the cinema industry. Multimedia presentations for pharmaceutical companies.

Project Management

UI design and front-end development for e-commerce and pharmaceutical companies.
Online marketing campaigns.
Banner campaigns.

Discovery & Ideation - Conducting workshops in the discovery phase to help identify and understand the project's strategic goals, user needs and technical constraints that define the design space - Participating in user interviews to better understand what each user role is trying to accomplish and the problems they are trying to solve - Collaborating with internal team members to brainstorm solutions or ways of approaching the design challenge - Producing conceptual designs to socialize initial ideas internally and externally, and incorporate design feedback. Designing, prototyping & testing - Producing, presenting and reviewing high-resolution designs with internal team members and client personnel, and incorporating design feedback - Preparing design artifacts for user testing and participating in the sessions by capturing feedback from users - Producing prototypes that help evaluate the overall flow and experience of the product. Delivering for implementation - Annotating design deliverables to ensure the design intent is clearly communicated to the development team and that there is a sufficient level of detail provided to support the implementation process - Reviewing the implementation of the designs by the development team to ensure it meets business goals and design intent. Design System - Building simple and complex components to ensure product consistency and scalability - Collaborating with front-end engineers to make sure design components are reflected into code w3- Web Integrated Services /

Web Site Design & Development / Online Advertisment Campaigns / Mini sites

Unilever Hellas web site (www.unilever.gr)
Co-Design, HTML/CSS coding
UI design and front-end development for clients from a multitude of sectors.
Online marketing campaigns. Banner campaigns.

UI design and front-end development for clients from the automotive, banking, e-commerce and goverment sectors. Training employees on online applications and intranet software.