Hi, i'm Catalin
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I'm a User Interface & User Experience designer based in Bucharest, Romania experienced in delivering complete UI/UX designs for software producs and websites. Improving the life of others through my work and learning new things with each opportunity is my passion. This is Barbos-UX, my website and i hop you enjkoy your stay.
My Path.
From the first days I have annoyed but surprised my parents by doodling the white pages of books in their library, throughout my childhood, later pursued a career in digital design. With over 20 years of designing web pages, various identities, desktop publishing, I ended up discovering my true passion, that of a UI/UX Designer.
Senior UX Designer
2023 - Present
A well known Network Monitoring company helping customers have their infrastructure up, running, and optimized, while keeping everything surprisingly simple.
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I have had the pleasure to work as a Senior UX Designer on 2 of their main products, from maintaining current products, modernising new features and even upgrading their entire UI as a whole. Responsabilities included team management, cross technical teams slignment and communication, UI & UX designs from sketching up to high definition click dummies, analytics and customer analysis, usability and A/B testing.
UI/UX Consultant
2019 - 2023
Focused mostly on Open Banking solutions for various banks in Romania such as BRD, BCR, BT, Nova Hrvatska Banka and Cembra Money Bank also helped develop our company's own TPP solutions such as Smart Pay and Smart Accounts.
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User Centered Designs with the help of an amazing team was the day to day activity. Conducted Business research & opportunities, user interviews, nps, user surveys all the way through design sprints sketching and up to delivering high quality designs and wireframes.
UI/UX Designer
2017-2019
Joined as a student of the craft and had the amazing opportunity to accumulate a lot of knowledge from a great team of colleagues. Our main objective was to improve the UI of our clients and increase conversion and retention rate of web pages and apps for a numerous portfolio of eCommerce and other businesses.
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Day to day activities included auditing clients web pages and/or app softwares, researching and proposing solutions and recommendations for their platforms. Implementing the ideas by testing our findings through surveys and A/B testings.
UI/UX Designer
2015-2017
My very first experience as a UI/UX Designer under the tutorship of Vlad Diaconu one of the great eCommerce specialists. The challenge was all about one huge eCommerce website and how to commercialize products in the boundaries of the international airport rules. An amazing experience alongside a young and dedicated team of specialists.
Creative Director
Mail Agent
2011 - 2014
An agency dedicated to email marketing across multiple platforms and the optimization of the webpages of a rich palette of products.
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Coordinated and designed email marketing campaigns, full websites and identities of all agency's clients.
Senior Web Designer
Inteq Solutions
2008 - 2011
Worked as a web designer for an IT agency that provided full services to small and large businesses. Day to day activity was designing business, portfolios and product pages, marketing visual campaigns. A great experience that taught me how to appreciate accuracy and design principles I did not know before.
Senior Web Designer
Emphasis Studio
2006-2008
The agency’s main focus was on three specific clients, Tara Fashion, Mitsubishi Motors and Topex Communications. Our main activity was full design services from business cards and desktop publishing and all the way to rebranding, website designs and marketing visual campaigns.
Web Designer
Birth Mark Design
2004-2006
A fresh and daring idea, that a bunch of colleagues from the same industry but different backgrounds can meet up and take care of the growing number of small businesses that require a web presence.
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Designed a multitude of short presentation websites for B2B as well for startups in various industries in Romania and EEU
Web Designer
rePublik Agency
2001 - 2004
An agency that mainly offered design services to McCann and Erickson on brands such as Mitsubishi Motors, Coca Cola, Fanta, Romanian Open Tour, Dorna and a few others. Web Designs, visual campaigns, digital catalogs and various digital materials was my apprenticeship.
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