Resume of Mate Varga

emailhi@kiume.me
degreeBA in Visual Communication
englishbusiness level
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Intro

UI Designer for 15 years, UX Designer for 9 years, evolving UX Engineer and Product Designer. Worked on projects from 4 continents, remotely and locally. My most used tools are Figma and VS Code. I love learning about the newest tools, technologies & trends. I'm highly adaptable, full of ideas, and I love working as part of a team. I'm striving for empathy, flexibility & open-mindedness in my work. I have a passion for πŸ“·, 🎬, 🎧, πŸ•ΉοΈ, 🚲, 🐱, and 🀫.

Work Experience

πŸ—“ 2022/11 β†’ now
πŸ–‹οΈ Freelance UI/UX Designer
Designing products for various clients in Europe and South Korea. Studying HTML, CSS, Javascript and 3D design to build complete products on my own.
#Figma #UX #UI #AI #HTML #CSS #JS #3D_design #GSAP #three.js #frontend_coding
πŸ—“ 2020/2 β†’ 2022/11
πŸ–‹οΈ UI/UX Designer @ CYDAS
In charge of improving the UI and the UX of the company’s employee management app suite, and preparing it for the international market. Also, creating a design system, landing pages for products, designing 500+ custom icons, improving design handoff for development, and teaching Figma to employees. Working remotely until November 2020, then moving to Tokyo, Japan to continue locally.
#Figma #UX #UI #HTML #CSS #JS #3D_design #GSAP #three.js
πŸ—“ 2019/8 β†’ 2020/1
πŸ–‹οΈ Working as freelance UI/UX Designer and UX advisor on various international projects.
UX advisor for an intuitive map based apartment/housing rental and sale service, helping the startup launch their disruptive new product.
#Figma #UX #UI #B2C #web_app #mobile_app #iOS
πŸ—“ 2018/1 β†’ 2019/7
πŸ–‹οΈ lead UX Designer @ Cellum
Working locally with the developer and QA team, creating new mobile fintech apps, and redesigning existing ones for clients like Erste Bank (Erste Group), Telenor Hungary, CTC Japan. I was creating low-fi designs, interactive prototypes, hi-fi designs, design systems, micro interactions, UI animations, illustrations, and working on design QA and optimizing design handoff for development. Managed to improve user ratings by 70-90% for the redesigned apps, and make the clients very satisfied.
#Figma #Framer #ReactJS #UXPin #UX #UI #B2C #mobile_app #iOS #Android #prototyping #UX_writing
πŸ—“ 2017/5 β†’ 2017/12
πŸ–‹οΈ Working as freelance UI/UX designer on various international projects.
Projects include: UI and UX design, and design system creation for Turnstyle fashion shopping mobile app, and designing landing page. Designing landing page for a financial advisor firm.
#Figma #UX #UI #B2C #mobile_app #iOS #Android #prototyping
πŸ—“ 2016/10 β†’ 2017/4
πŸ–‹οΈ UI/Product Designer @ allas.hu
Working in this startup locally with the team, creating a new, forward thinking AI based responsive web app for job seekers from the ground up through the MVP release to later updates. I was creating lo-fi designs, prototypes, hi-fi designs, a design system, app onboarding, banners, doing user testing, etc.
#Figma #UX #UI #B2C #web_app #prototyping #user_testing
πŸ—“ 2010/7 β†’ 2017/12
πŸ–‹οΈ Working as a freelance UI/UX designer on various international projects.
Working with clients from the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, Austria and Australia. Corporate clients like F24 GMBH, TrustCase GMBH (worked full-time as a commissioned UI/UX Designer in Munich for the project’s duration of 2 months), Sunrun, Jetstar Airlines.
#Illustrator #Photoshop #UI #B2C #B2B #web_app #mobile_app #iOS #Android
πŸ—“ 2010/7
πŸ–‹οΈ graduated Visual Communication as Art Director (BA)
@ Visart / Ecole d'Art Maryse Eloy Budapest

Applications

Figma ✦✦✦✦✦
8 years of experience in using and teaching it since the beta
Illustrator ✦✦✦✦✦
10+ years
Photoshop ✦✦✦✦✦
10+ years
Indesign ✦✦✦✦
Sketch ✦✦✦
& Adobe xD, Framer, UXPin, Invision, etc.
Spline 3D✦✦✦
After Effects ✦✦
with Lottie export
MacOS & Win ✦✦✦✦✦
some Linux too

Knowledge & Abilities

UI Design✦✦✦✦✦
UX Design✦✦✦✦✦
UX Research✦✦✦
UX Writing✦✦✦
Prototyping✦✦✦✦✦
Design Handoff✦✦✦✦✦
for the developers
Design Systems✦✦✦✦✦
using components, auto layout, variables
Web Design✦✦✦✦✦
HTML/CSS✦✦✦✦
designing and coding static websites
Graphic Design✦✦✦✦
branding, logo design, print design
UI Icon Design✦✦✦✦
Animation✦✦✦
UI elements, micro interactions
Illustration✦✦
3D Design✦✦
Photography✦✦✦✦✦
& retouching
Music Producing✦✦✦
SingingπŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
I hope you'll never know

Q&A

πŸ™‹ What's my preferred work style?
πŸ’¬ I prefer hybrid, as I believe it brings the best mental balance and productivity.
πŸ™‹ What are my basic office necessities?
πŸ’¬ Coffee machine and drinking water!
πŸ™‹ What's my preferred way of commuting?
πŸ’¬ Cycling πŸš΄β€β™‚οΈ
Have more questions? Open to have a chat? πŸ“… Book a meeting!
Thank you for taking the time to check my portfolio. I appreciate it! πŸ™πŸ»πŸ’œπŸŒΊ