Krispin Stock, Product Designer, UX & UI

About

Hello, my name is Krispin Stock and I am a Product Designer with a main focus on creating solutions that bridge business & users’ needs. I am currently freelancing at Toptal. My work includes the whole process of creating digital products, from initial research & discovery to final prototyping, usability testing & UI design ready for development. As a part of UI design I often create custom digital illustrations to enhance branding.

Experience

A Team

Oct 2021 – Present

California, Remote

Senior Product Designer

In late 2021 I was invited on (at the time in stealth mode) an invite-only platform that helps VC-backed startups meet w/ software/product building teams. In late 2021 I was invited on (at the time in stealth mode) an invite-only platform that helps VC-backed startups meet w/ software/product building teams. Skills: Product Design · Usability Testing · User Experience Design (UED) · Lean UX · Agile Project Management · Mobile Design · Illustration · Wireframing · Prototyping · UX Research · Visual Design

Toptal

Sep 2019 – Present

California, Remote

Product Designer

In late 2019 I was vetted to become a part of Toptal - The no. 1 platform for freelancers worldwide. Each year there are over 100 000 applicants and only 3% of us make it through the selection process. https://www.toptal.comIn late 2019 I was vetted to become a part of Toptal - The no. 1 platform for freelancers worldwide. Each year there are over 100 000 applicants and only 3% of us make it through the selection process. https://www.toptal.com Skills: UX Design · Design System · User Journeys · User Personas · UX Audit · Heuristic Evaluation · Competitive Analysis · Analytics · User Interface Design · IxD · MVP · Digital Illustration · Branding & Identity · Kanban · Scrum · Usability Testing · Information Architecture · Wireframing · Prototyping · User Flows · UX Research

Springboard

May 2020 – Nov 2021

California, Remote

UX/UI Mentor

I've taken my mentoring practice worldwide, helping new designers to learn tools and practices of UX & UI design.

Undabot

Jul 2018 – Apr 2019

Croatia

Freelance Senior UX designer

Undabot is mobile development IT company where I worked entirely as a UX designer and alongside the Sales team. I organized and held workshops, and UX design sessions, co-created offers and pitches and attended pitch sessions with international clients. I also had a talk as a part of Sketch Talks in Zagreb. I attended Design Sprint education held by Ross Chapman from ETCH, UK.

Trikoder

Feb 2016 – Jun 2018

Croatia

Senior UX/UI designer

After I moved back to Croatia, I had the opportunity to work in a large IT company - Trikoder on the mobile app of the largest marketplace platform in the region. I was part of the Agile dev team and organized and lead a small design team that was part of it. I worked closely with both backend and mobile developers, product owners, and scrum masters. I organized workshops with clients and created a design system. I was also able to attend Norman Nielsen Groups’ education in Amsterdam and Copenhagen and get a certificate in Omnichannel and Lean UX. After that, with help from my colleague, I organized an in-house UX Design education held by a consultant that enabled me to learn and try UX tools and methodologies that I use today as an everyday practice in my work.

Dixero International SA

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015

Switzerland, Slovenia

UX/UI designer

Dixero International SA is an R&D IT company from Lugano, Switzerland. As a UX/UI designer, I was part of a team of designers that were creating mobile music apps for the Italian market.

JollyDeck

May 2014 – Oct 2014

United Kingdom, Slovenia

Digital Designer

Jolly Deck was my first experience as a UX/UI designer in a remote startup team. Jolly Deck is a digital learning platform born in Wayra Incubator, UK. As a UI designer, I was able to observe remote Usability testing and learn how beautiful buttons and typefaces alone are not enough to make digital products usable or useful, which stirred my career in the UX Design direction.

MayerMcCann

Nov 2013 – Apr 2014

Slovenia

Designer

After Kabinet01 I moved to advertise waters where I continued to create both digital and print brands and advertising campaigns and websites for international clients.

KABINET01

Oct 2012 – Oct 2013

Slovenia

Designer

In 2012 I started working as an inhouse designer of Visual Communications in the small design studio Kabinet01 where I created several brand identities, both digital and printed. One of the first websites that I designed there got nominated as a site of the day on Awwwards.com.

Education

University of Ljubljana

Sep 2008 – Sep 2013

Master, Visual communication

Krispin Stock

Product Designer, UX & UI

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