Iuliia Kondratenko

Background

About Iuliia Kondratenko

I have 10+ years of experience in web and mobile applying essential methods and techniques of UX/UI expertise and about 6 years of leading teams. Successfully aligning design strategies with overarching business objectives, ensuring the seamless integration of user-centric design methods to enhance organizational achievement and increase market competitiveness. Experienced in defining and aligning design strategies with business goals, requirements gathering, working closely with subject matter experts, conducting user researches and usability testing, driving and facilitating workshops with business stakeholders and end-users. In addition to this, I have experience in leading the UX team, mentoring L1-L2 specialists, and played the PO role on my personal project. Helping organisations better understand customers' needs and preferences, leading to more customer-focused solutions. Usually, I participate in the process of feature implementation from discovery to validation including support of the development team with high-fidelity prototypes, workflows, guidelines, and any other additional UX artifacts or documentation. I have advanced knowledge of Figma, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, InVision, Zeplin, Avacode, Abstract, and Axure. Other activities- Team staffing and onboarding of new team members - Planning and participating in the discovery phase: audit of current product, research, workshop preparation, defining what needs to be done and how - Identifing key goals and pain points with stakeholders and business - Estimating design scope and created design roadmap - Establishing an appropriate design process, onboarding process for the new team members, definition of done for design team work, and DoD for design system components)- Plan and manage design roadmap and align with product and business objectives- Plan and manage design workload and activities - Leading design teams (up to 7 members) and streams (up to 3 streams at the same time)- User testing and researches - Design system governance - UX Debt Governance - Documentation preparation: results of UX researches, specs and component description behavior, user flows, prototypes and design mockups, style guides and graphic materials - Design presentation within the team and client - Writing about UX here https://medium.com/@kondratenko.iuliia