Miklos Philips
Verified Expert in Design
UX Designer
Miklos is a lead UI/UX/product designer with over 17 years of experience. He is a proponent of user-centered design (UCD) practices and design thinking. He is equally well-versed in UI/UX and visual design and has extensive interaction design experience. Miklos's past work includes complex data UIs, data visualization, dashboards and reporting, transactional interfaces, and design system creation and management.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead User Experience/User Interface Designer
Globant
- Employed user-centered design, jobs-to-be-done, and Lean UX methodologies. Led the design of a best-in-class customer portal for Intertek, a QAT industry leader in more than 1,000 locations worldwide.
- Created user stories and personas based on data gathered during user research. Built wireframes and prototypes and conducted user testing and synthesis to gain insights into how customers would use the proposed product.
- Led the design team, set the design direction, provided guidance on planning and delivery, and ensured a high-quality standard.
Digital Product Designer
Financial Times
- Designed optimal user experiences for Ft.com and in the app. Employed A/B testing experimentation and continuously reprioritized UX designs based on quant and qual signals.
- Built many conversion and landing pages, including subscription promos and parts of the site. Contributed to a Figma design system, performed A/B testing and qualitative testing, and did UX evaluations and heuristic analyses.
- Created the customer journeys and jobs-to-be-done scenarios, created wireframes, and crafted interactive prototypes for testing.
Head of User Experience
DoubleVerify
- Oversaw the UX redesign of the entire enterprise platform, which resulted in higher NPS scores.
- Designed a fully customizable analytics dashboard.
- Integrated a full suite of UX analytics tools, including Pendo and WalkMe, to track usage and measure satisfaction.
- Collaborated with the heads of engineering and product on strategy, timeline, resource allocation, and budgets.
- Provided UI and interaction designs on a dozen different B2B applications on the platform.
Principal User Experience Designer
Pubmatic
- Worked on business requirements, user goals, persona definition, and conducted user research and testing.
- Redesigned the overall look and feel of the entire platform that increased NPS scores.
- Created a design system, a style guide, and a common component library.
- Built wireframes and prototypes and conducted user testing.
- Led the overall UI/UX design on this AdTech B2B enterprise platform.
Head of User Experience
SeeFlight
- Defined project goals with business stakeholders and evaluated the technical feasibility.
- Conducted competitive analyses and drew up recommendations for the product design.
- Wireframed and prototyped product solutions; conducted moderated user testing to arrive at the optimum solution.
- Created on-device mockups to enable startup founders to present the final product vision at pitch sessions with potential startup investors.
- Designed the user experience for the entire product of a flight meta-search startup: desktop, tablet, and mobile.
Lead User Experience Designer
Rubicon Project
- Led the overall user experience design on the global advertising-tech platform.
- Designed the user experience on a new flagship product that received raves for its innovative interface.
- Conducted extensive journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, guided the visual design, and conducted user-testing.
- Created significant UX improvements on several of their existing applications.
- Helped develop and refine UI pattern libraries and interaction guidelines. Implemented a brand new UI style guide.
Principal User Experience Designer
Sunpower
- Designed marketing promo landing pages and microsites.
- Improved conversion rates considerably on an array of consumer, partner, and dealer-facing marketing projects.
- Led the visual/UI design working with marketing and branding stakeholders who ensured the aesthetics and UX writing stayed within the branding guidelines.
Principal User Experience Designer
Guitar Center
- Delivered improved user experiences across various desktop and mobile eCommerce projects that resulted in increased engagement and completed purchase metrics.
- Worked extensively on futuristic, innovative internal black box “concept lab” initiatives with the vision to drive consumer engagement.
- Designed several consumer-facing microsites and redesigned many internal applications such as a universal order system.
Lead User Experience Designer
Autodesk Location Services
- Collaborated closely with product management to successfully architect user experiences across desktop and mobile applications.
- Introduced new user experience design processes into the product design, which increased adoption in the marketplace and lifted sales.
- Achieved, through extensive user research and usability testing, high levels of application UX metrics that lead to greater market adoption rates of the product.
Other Experience
The Present and Future of AI in Design (With Infographic)
Design Talks: Research in Action with UX Researcher Caitria O'Neill
Prominent E-commerce Trends and Their Influence on Design (with Infographic)
The End of Web Forms
Master Hot Design Trends with These Photoshop Tutorials
Design Psychology and the Neuroscience of Awesome UX
Design Principles: An Introduction to Visual Hierarchy
How to Use Powerful Gestalt Principles in Design (with Infographic)
Design for Emotion to Increase User Engagement
The 10 UX Deliverables Top Designers Use
Heuristic Analysis for UX: How to Run a Usability Evaluation
The True ROI of UX: Convincing the Executive Suite
Anticipatory Design: How to Create Magical User Experiences
Know Your User: UX Statistics and Insights (With Infographic)
Dark UIs. The Good and the Bad. Dos and Don’ts.
Boost Your UX With These Successful Interaction Design Principles
The Best UX Tools (with Infographic)
Art vs Design – A Timeless Debate
The Best UX Designer Portfolios: Inspiring Case Studies and Examples
The Tried and True Laws of UX (with Infographic)
The Ultimate UX Hook : Anticipatory, Persuasive, and Emotional Design in UX
The True ROI of UX: B2B Redesign Case Studies
The Importance of Human-centered Design in Product Design
Design Talks: The Pursuit of Value-based Design with Nick Disabato
E-commerce UX: An Overview of Best Practices (with Infographic)
Mobile E-commerce Best Practices for UX (With Infographic)
Design Talks: Better Designer and Developer Collaboration with Aarron Walter of InVision
The Complete Guide to UX Research Methods
UX Design Trends Retrospective 2019
Prominent Design Conferences 2020
COVID-19: The Ultimate Design Thinking Use Case
Living His Best Life: David Nuff’s Inspiring Freelance Success Story
Evolving UX: Experimental Product Design with a CXO
Showcase Your Skills: How to Make a Portfolio
In the Spotlight: The Principles of Dark UI Design
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Design
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design - Budapest, Hungary
Certifications
Design-led Strategy: Design Thinking for Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Coursera
Skills
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Zeplin, Photoshop Design, Sketch, Balsamiq, Adobe CC, Axure RP Pro, OmniGraffle, InVision, Photoshop 2018, Figma, Adobe, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe After Effects, UXPin, Adobe Illustrator
Platforms
Axure, Mobile, iOS, Android
Other
Dashboard Design, SaaS Design, Interaction Design (IxD), UX Wireflows, Mockups, UI Design, UX Sketching, UX Direction, Experience Maps, Web Design, App UX, Product Strategy, Product Design, Interface Design, Web UI, Apps, App Design, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, iOS UI Design, User Testing, Web UX, Visual Design, Agile UX, User Requirements, UX Testing, Team Leadership, User Experience (UX), User Flows, Team Mentoring, User Stories, User-centered Design (UCD), Mobile UX, iOS App Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, Paper Prototyping, High-fidelity Prototypes, Interactive Prototypes, Video Editing, Rapid Prototyping, UX Audits, UX Design, UX Thinking, Lean UX, Quantitative User Research, Qualitative Research, Data Visualization, Design Systems, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Web Dashboards, Mobile Design, Mobile Prototypes, User Interface (UI), Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web App Design, Dashboards, UX Research, Design Patterns, Style Guides, Flow-mapping, Customer Experience, Task Flows, Onboarding, Rich User Interfaces, B2B, User Research, Motion Graphics
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