Dmitry Galkin
Product designer in Saint-Petersburg
Looking for a project
About
I offer forward-looking solutions from scratch to production. I am currently on the lookout for projects or full time work.
I’m comfortable working independently, but I really like to team up with others.
Have about 5 years of experience leading all stages of the design process, including user research, system design, writing design copy, making handover specs, using the design system, and contributing to it.
Side Projects
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Handled maintenance of existing design and implementation of new product features
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Interacted with the product's target audience through qualitative and quantitative research: surveys and interviews
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Generated hypotheses to improve the current interface, tested them and implemented them
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Engaged in functionality testing with the help of A/B tests
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Development of design concept from sketch to realization on production
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Close interaction with stakeholders, producers and developers
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Designed and launched a profiling survey, enabling the org to better segment trial users and customers, and surfacing the collected data for sales and marketing teams.
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Creation of design system and its support
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Redesign of AI-driven communication platform interface
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Working with product and project managers
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Analyzing current metrics in Hotjar and Google Analytics, identifying weaknesses and fixing problems
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Refinement of the design system and its improvement
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Implementation of design processes in the team
Work Experience
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Leading design initiatives for the New User Experience team
Within the Funnel and Redesign teams. -
Defined and executed the vision for the product onboarding experience. Led cross-functional collaboration with research, PMM, and education teams, while maintaining regular alignment with senior execs.
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Developing unique solutions to improve functionality and user interface experience
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Work with A/B tests to test and identify better functionality
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Working with activation and user retention rates
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Creation and maintenance of web and mobile versions of webapps
As a senior designer, I was responsible for the design for all the company's products. And also, for the design of the mobile app for evacuation and the offline kiosk at the reception.
I was involved in:
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Designing user expirience form idea concepts to wireframes and prototyping, to design and implementation;
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Created wireframes & high-fidelity prototypes;
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Testing our interfaces on focus groups;
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Interviweving;
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Work acriss iOS and Web platforms;
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Product design for multiple products (Facility, Delivery, Security, Emergency & Workforce);
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Introduction of design metrics, improvement of design processes within the team, systematisation of workflows;
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Created design system department that was allocated across 3 countries. Mentored 4 designers;
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Created design system which used team of 16 designers and 30+ developers and have impact of saving ~1,000h monthly of work for 5 product teams (iOS, Web).
We started out as a product team that developed the sports and news portal Lines.
But after a while we started to function as a product agency, taking on various customised projects mainly related to mobile applications
My responsibilities included:
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Creating wireframes from scratch
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Hypothesis building and testing
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Creating high quality prototypes for interface presentation
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UX/UI design
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Working with animations
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Collaborations with CTO, Developers, Marketing team & PM`s
My first experience as a designer. During a year of work in this studio I made many interesting projects, one of the biggest and most significant was a project for Lenovo.
My responsibilities included:
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Finalising designs for different projects
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Help in creating banners
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UX/UI website design
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Developing concepts for new projects