About

About

About

About

About

Hello! I'm glad you wanted to learn about me, or maybe you just ended up here by accident when googling 'crazy Ukrainian designer sci-fi robot 3d spaceship portfolio'.


My name is Roman, I am a digital designer, board game geek, big foodie and a pretty good cook (from what I hear). Oh yeah, also huge sci-fi nerd!

Hello! I'm glad you wanted to learn about me, or maybe you just ended up here by accident when googling 'crazy Ukrainian designer sci-fi robot 3d spaceship portfolio'.


My name is Roman, I am a digital designer, board game geek, big foodie and a pretty good cook (from what I hear). Oh yeah, also huge sci-fi nerd!

Origins


I was born in Marhanets, a small mining town in south-central Ukraine, named for its manganese ore extraction. Growing up, I was always drawing and painting, often during classes when I should have been paying attention. Art and Crafts were my favorite subjects. In 6th grade, inspired by our active student exchange program, I painted a scene depicting a bridge between Ukraine and the USA. My art teacher loved it so much that she got permission to paint a full-size mural of it in the school hall, a moment that affirmed my passion for art and design.


Becoming a UI/UX Designer


Years later, I moved to the USA, where I earned a degree in Graphic Design with a minor in Web Development. My career has spanned various roles in marketing and web design agencies, where I've gained extensive experience in UI/UX and front-end work. Recently, I've grown as a digital product designer, tackling challenging e-commerce and fintech projects. Strategic thinking, adapting to new technologies, planning for long-term impact, focusing on user research, and developing feedback loops have been crucial to my professional growth.


What I love most about UI/UX work is solving problems and seeing the positive impact it brings. I'm passionate about current and future technologies and enjoy challenging myself to understand and solve complex digital issues. My skills in front-end and motion graphics have helped my company solve client problems efficiently and cost-effectively. Designing user experiences and interfaces for large e-commerce businesses, with successful tweaks that have converted thousands of dollars, drives my passion as a UI/UX designer.


Personal Interests


In my free time, I enjoy cooking, watercolor painting, listening to dubstep, traveling, and watching sci-fi movies. For a break from the city noise, I love taking walks in the local park—an activity I'd recommend to anyone.


I was born in a small mining town in South central part of Ukraine called Marhanets (named after Manganese ore, because you know.. they extracted Manganese ore and it seemed like an easy choice for naming a whole town, right).


Growing up, I always drew and painted something, even during classes when I was supposed to pay attention. My favorite class were always Art and Crafts. At 6th grade, I decided to paint a scene on paper that showed a bridge between Ukraine and USA because we had a very active exchange program for students. My art teacher ended up getting permission from school to paint an actual full size mural in one of the walls in my school hall after she saw it. That was a very cool and inspiring moment in my life when I realized I was actually good at creating art and design.


Journey as a UI/UX Designer


Some years later, my life journey took me to USA where I graduated with the degree in Graphic Design with minor in Web Development. Most of my experience comes from working as in multiple disciplines at big marketing and web design agencies, doing UI/UX and even front-end work. In the past few years my design approach and thinking have matured drastically while working as a digital Product designer on some really challenging e-commerce and Fin-tech projects. To me, thinking strategically, adapting to new tech, planning for long-term impact and also focusing on user research and developing feedback loops have became main factors that contributed to my professional growth.


What I absolutely love about UI/UX work is the moment you realize at the end that you have solved someone's problem, either business or user friction some organization had, and seeing how much positive impact that can bring. I am always curious about current and future technologies, I love when the day isn't the same and every time I look for ways to challenge myself and my understanding of the digital world and its complex problems. I have learned front-end and motion graphics because it helped my company solve client problems faster while keeping the cost down. I have planned and designed user experiences and interfaces for large e-commerce businesses with minor tweaks that were successfully converting thousands of dollars plus. Every project's impact is what always drives me as a UI and UX designer, and I am always passionate about communicating solutions to the users, no matter the industry.


In my free time, I love to cook, watercolor, listen to dubstep, travel, and watch sci-fi movies. When I want to get really crazy, I even go to take a walk at the local park to get away from the city noise, you should try it too!

I was born in a small mining town in South central part of Ukraine called Marhanets (named after Manganese ore, because you know.. they extracted Manganese ore and it seemed like an easy choice for naming a whole town, right).


Growing up, I always drew and painted something, even during classes when I was supposed to pay attention. My favorite class were always Art and Crafts. At 6th grade, I decided to paint a scene on paper that showed a bridge between Ukraine and USA because we had a very active exchange program for students. My art teacher ended up getting permission from school to paint an actual full size mural in one of the walls in my school hall after she saw it. That was a very cool and inspiring moment in my life when I realized I was actually good at creating art and design.


Journey as a UI/UX Designer


Some years later, my life journey took me to USA where I graduated with the degree in Graphic Design with minor in Web Development. Most of my experience comes from working as in multiple disciplines at big marketing and web design agencies, doing UI/UX and even front-end work. In the past few years my design approach and thinking have matured drastically while working as a digital Product designer on some really challenging e-commerce and Fin-tech projects. To me, thinking strategically, adapting to new tech, planning for long-term impact and also focusing on user research and developing feedback loops have became main factors that contributed to my professional growth.


What I absolutely love about UI/UX work is the moment you realize at the end that you have solved someone's problem, either business or user friction some organization had, and seeing how much positive impact that can bring. I am always curious about current and future technologies, I love when the day isn't the same and every time I look for ways to challenge myself and my understanding of the digital world and its complex problems. I have learned front-end and motion graphics because it helped my company solve client problems faster while keeping the cost down. I have planned and designed user experiences and interfaces for large e-commerce businesses with minor tweaks that were successfully converting thousands of dollars plus. Every project's impact is what always drives me as a UI and UX designer, and I am always passionate about communicating solutions to the users, no matter the industry.


In my free time, I love to cook, watercolor, listen to dubstep, travel, and watch sci-fi movies. When I want to get really crazy, I even go to take a walk at the local park to get away from the city noise, you should try it too!

I was born in a small mining town in South central part of Ukraine called Marhanets (named after Manganese ore, because you know.. they extracted Manganese ore and it seemed like an easy choice for naming a whole town, right).


Growing up, I always drew and painted something, even during classes when I was supposed to pay attention. My favorite class were always Art and Crafts. At 6th grade, I decided to paint a scene on paper that showed a bridge between Ukraine and USA because we had a very active exchange program for students. My art teacher ended up getting permission from school to paint an actual full size mural in one of the walls in my school hall after she saw it. That was a very cool and inspiring moment in my life when I realized I was actually good at creating art and design.


Journey as a UI/UX Designer


Some years later, my life journey took me to USA where I graduated with the degree in Graphic Design with minor in Web Development. Most of my experience comes from working as in multiple disciplines at big marketing and web design agencies, doing UI/UX and even front-end work. In the past few years my design approach and thinking have matured drastically while working as a digital Product designer on some really challenging e-commerce and Fin-tech projects. To me, thinking strategically, adapting to new tech, planning for long-term impact and also focusing on user research and developing feedback loops have became main factors that contributed to my professional growth.


What I absolutely love about UI/UX work is the moment you realize at the end that you have solved someone's problem, either business or user friction some organization had, and seeing how much positive impact that can bring. I am always curious about current and future technologies, I love when the day isn't the same and every time I look for ways to challenge myself and my understanding of the digital world and its complex problems. I have learned front-end and motion graphics because it helped my company solve client problems faster while keeping the cost down. I have planned and designed user experiences and interfaces for large e-commerce businesses with minor tweaks that were successfully converting thousands of dollars plus. Every project's impact is what always drives me as a UI and UX designer, and I am always passionate about communicating solutions to the users, no matter the industry.


In my free time, I love to cook, watercolor, listen to dubstep, travel, and watch sci-fi movies. When I want to get really crazy, I even go to take a walk at the local park to get away from the city noise, you should try it too!

My passions ❤️️🤗

My passions ❤️️🤗

My passions ❤️️🤗

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Spending time with family

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Cooking yum yums

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Traveling & sightseeing

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Sci-Fi books & shows

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Watercoloring & drawing

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Gym & fitness

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Fantasy football

life happens :)

life happens :)

life happens :)

_Roman’s Design

Principles

_Roman’s Design

Principles

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Design Principles

_Roman’s Design

Principles

_Roman’s Design

Principles

Be kind.

Be kind in how you talk, interact and give feedback to others - and especially to yourself.

Inspire.

Do your best to bring best in others: encourage, empower, and inspire with top quality and meaningful impact of your work.

Be curious.

Always aspire to learn, try new things and experiment. Ask questions, take risks and deal with it later. Have fun with in the process.

Always aspire to learn, try things and experiment. Ask questions, take risks and deal with it later. Have fun with it.

Always aspire to learn, try things and experiment. Ask questions, take risks and deal with it later. Have fun with it.

Always aspire to learn, try things and experiment. Ask questions, take risks and deal with it later. Have fun with it.

Always aspire to learn, try things and experiment. Ask questions, take risks and deal with it later. Have fun with it.

Take risks.

Always be afraid to have 'what ifs', instead - get excited to have 'when I do..' greatest things will happen. Law of the Universe.

Own mistakes & learn.

We are not perfect and this makes it fun: you have to make mistakes, otherwise you won't learn and have an impact in the future.

We are not perfect and this makes it fun: you have to make mistakes, otherwise you won't learn and have an impact.

We are not perfect and this makes it fun: you have to make mistakes, otherwise you won't learn and have an impact.

We are not perfect and this makes it fun: you have to make mistakes, otherwise you won't learn and have an impact.

We are not perfect and this makes it fun: you have to make mistakes, otherwise you won't learn and have an impact.

Care.

Care about yourself, care about your planet, care about your work and care about the person next to you, behind you and ahead of you.

_Work Experience

_Work Experience

_Work Experience

_Work Experience

7+ years crafting bada#$ digital solutions

7+ years crafting
bada#$ digital solutions

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Coviance (2022-202*)

Senior Product Designer

Coviance

(2022-202*)

Lead Product Designer

Coviance is a fintech startup that provides cloud-based business solutions to credit unions and banks for opening and processing home equity loans and applications. My role as a Product Designer was to lead all UI/UX efforts for their marketplace B2B and B2C facing products, collaborate across teams to create user-friendly digital solutions by employing user research and iterative design processes, in agile environment. Additionally, I played a key role in translating complex financial concepts into accessible and engaging interfaces, contributing to the seamless user experience across its web-based platform.

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Blenders Eyewear (2021-2022)

Lead UI/UX Shopify Designer

Blenders Eyewear

(2021-2022)

Lead UI/UX Shopify Designer

As a UI/UX Shopify Designer at Blenders, my role centered on creating visually captivating and customer-centric designs. I collaborated closely with cross-functional teams of product owners, stakeholders, and content managers to conceptualize and craft intuitive user interfaces that optimized the shopping experience for online customers to increase conversion rates and grow organic traffic to the main site to increase overall site ranking among the sunglass industry competitors.

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Shift Interactive (2014-2021)

Senior UI/UX Designer

Shift Interactive
(2014-2021)

Senior UI/UX Designer

Worked in agile cross-functional teams to research, design and plan User Experience , Visual and Interaction design for desktop, touchscreen and mobile apps. Was responsible to creating sitemaps, user flows, prototypes, wireframes and high fidelity designs. Took part in building front-end themes for Wordpress CMS platform, also helped with generating motion graphics and presentations for the stakeholders and customers to communicate new digital products that had positive business impact.

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Flying Hippo Web Technologies (2010-2014)

Interaction & Web Designer

Flying Hippo Web Tech (2010-2014)

Interaction & Web Designer

Flying Hippo Web Tech

(2010-2014)

Interaction & Web Designer

As a Web Designer at Flying Hippo, I spearheaded the creation of visually stunning and user-friendly website interfaces. Collaborating closely with art directors and project managers, I translated client visions into captivating digital designs that balanced aesthetics with functionality. My goal was to deliver innovative and responsive web solutions that bolstered the agency's reputation for creating impactful online experiences.


As a Web Designer at Flying Hippo, I spearheaded the creation of visually stunning and user-friendly website interfaces. Collaborating closely with art directors and project managers, I translated client visions into captivating digital designs that balanced aesthetics with functionality. My goal was to deliver innovative and responsive web solutions that bolstered the agency's reputation for creating impactful online experiences.


skills 🧰

skills 🧰

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Product strategy

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Web & mobile design

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Front-end development

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Motion graphics

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Digital illustrations

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Data analytics

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Crafting puns

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industries

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E-commerce

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Industrial tech

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FinTech

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B2B

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Marketing agencies

Seeking someone to handle your UX/UI issues for a particular project?😎 Brilliant! I provide freelancing services! Want to simply converse about your preferred sci-fi film, novel, or series? Let's engage in a dialogue, a conference, a chitchat, a talk, or a gabfest!

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Designed by Human. Inspired by robots.

2024

Seeking someone to handle your UX/UI issues for a particular project?😎 Brilliant! I provide freelancing services! Want to simply converse about your preferred sci-fi film, novel, or series? Let's engage in a dialogue, a conference, a chitchat, a talk, or a gabfest!

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// dribbble

// resume

Designed by Human. Inspired by robots.

2024

Seeking someone to handle your UX/UI issues for a particular project?😎 Brilliant! I provide freelancing services! Want to simply converse about your preferred sci-fi film, novel, or series? Let's engage in a dialogue, a conference, a chitchat, a talk, or a gabfest!

// linked_IN

// dribbble

// resume

Designed by Human. Inspired by robots.

2024