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FIRST PROJECT
I'm Paulina and I'm a product designer based in Berlin, Germany. During the past years I've been busy designing mostly apps and web experiences at startups and tech companies.
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Growing up, I was experimenting with creative pursuits like making collages, crocheting, or coding my first blog. As my mom is a graphic designer, I had an access to a computer with Photoshop and I spent hours editing images for my page. I redirected to something more tangible and I did my Bachelor's Degree in Product Design and then, my Master's degree in Furniture Design in 2019. It gave me technical background and logical perspective to plan design process in making physical objects. However, I have been always more into digital world and I decided to contribute to this area more.
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I have about 8 years of experience in the UI/UX field and I have worked on a variety of products, ranging from mobile apps to web-based applications. I always take a user-centric approach to design and development, ensuring that all products meet the highest standard of quality. Currently I take a bird's-eye view of product design, creating whole, cohesive products and that solve user problems and business needs. From feature planning, interaction design, to collaborating with development and managing the whole product cycle.
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Experience

UI Designer

EDURINO

June 2023 - Present

As a UI Designer at Edurino, I design customer-facing products that teach children 21st century skills with the power of games. I combine my passion for education and design to create innovative and interactive solutions that make digital learning tangible and fun.

Product Designer

Blix Group

August 2020 - June 2022

I worked on various projects at Blix Group, a leader in Drive-to-Store marketing in Poland and Ukraine, where its portfolio apps (Blix, Zdrowe Zakupy eng. Healthy Shooping and Qpony) reach 3 million users.
  • I designed an MVP version of a new feature for the Blix App that allows Android users to collect data from receipts, resulting in correctly reading 82% of information on the receipts
  • I redesigned the experience for adding new products to the Zdrowe Zakupy app for iOS and Android, resulting in a decrease in users complaints about the incomplete database and increase of user satisfaction.
  • I created a new look for the Ingredient Page for Zdrowe Zakupy for cross-platform react native web view
  • I worked on some other features as well as improvements for the existing ones.

UI/UX Designer

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

July 2018 - July 2020

At PSNC, a research and development center known for IT infrastructure in the European Research Area, I worked as a UI/UX designer on complex projects in computing, education, agriculture, and house planning.
  • One project involved redesigning a mobile-first Event calendar site for improved usability and appeal.

Visual Designer

Konsimo.

August 2020 - June 2022

Konsimo. is a unique furniture shop that offers a wide range of products for home. As a Visual Designer, I was in charge of creating main visual content like web components, wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes.

Education

Furniture Design (M.A.)

University of Arts Poznan

October 2017 - June 2019

Product/Industrial Design (B.A.)

University of Arts Poznan

October 2013 - June 2016

Certificates

Figma Academy Certificate

Dive

January 2023

UX Design Certificate

Google Professional Certificate at Coursera

2022

Mobile User Experience (UX) Design

Interaction Design Foundation

2019

Skills

Prototyping

UI Design

Interaction Design

UX Research

Design Systems

Tools

Figma

Figjam

Miro

ProtoPie

Clevertap

Confluence

JIRA

Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)

Paulina Dera 2023
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