Radu Vucea ⭐️

Leading AR/VR Design @ Reality Labs

Mento Design Academy

Our mission is to help young professionals and career-switchers transition faster and smoother to a career in UX, UI, or Product Design by teaching the right skills, the right way.

Founder

MYBENEFITS

Advisor & Investor

FlairMakers

ixperi

Building a Digital Product Design Studio has been a dream of mine for a long time.

In early 2021, I finally decided to give it a go, and I co-founded ixperi with the mission of creating an elite design team that could deliver exceptional quality and impact.

In just three years, completely bootstrapped, my team and I:

→ Grew the studio to 13 stellar Product Designers and Product Managers
→ Built a fantastic culture of learning, development, and excellence through mentorship and coaching
→ Went from $0 to $1M in yearly revenue
→ Designed and delivered for high growth start-ups like Fresha, FlowX and Jellysmack

Co-Founder, Exit in 2023

Actio

Chief Design Officer

VP, Product Design

Fitbit (now part of Google)

In my role of Product Design Manager at Fitbit, I was initially in charge of building from the ground up and leading the whole design team in Bucharest.

In my three years in this role I have:

→ Built the Product Design team in Bucharest, 15 strong, influencing the headcount strategy to bring in key roles such as UX Research and Design Ops.
→ Created an amazing design culture, recognized company-wide, based on transparency, authenticity, trust, and support, which enabled shipping successful products while maintaining a near-zero attrition rate.
→ Established processes and opportunities that enabled team growth, such as reviews, critiques, and knowledge sharing sessions and events such as Learning Friday and Friday Speaker Series.
→ Influenced the company roadmap and strategy to ship the first line of Fitbit products for kids.
→ Shipped several products that had a revenue and company strategy impact, such as Active Zone Minutes and Fitbit Premium, the latter bringing in over 1,000,000 subscribers in under one year.

Product Design Manager

While in my role as a Senior Product Designer at Fitbit I owned the development of the Fitbit App Gallery from the ground up.

Initially meant to support our first smartwatch, the Ionic, with custom content that users could download, it now supports almost a dozen Fitbit smart devices, counts over 12,000 apps, and watch faces, all of which have been downloaded over 245 Million times.

The Fitbit App Gallery also attracted a thriving community of over 1,000 developers, many of them creating a steady stream of income through creating content for Fitbit.

Senior Product Designer

Vector Watch

While in my role at Vector Watch I wore many hats, as any does in a startup.

From redesigning the company's website with a goal to increase sales — to creating marketing assets in partnership with our marketing department to create awareness, no day was the same.

My most significant achievement, however, has been creating the Vector Developer Portal from the ground up, an easy-to-use web-based tool anyone could use to create a custom watch face or app for their Vector Watch.

It was exceptionally received, gathering over 1800 content creators and over 3000 watch faces and apps in just a few months.

Vector Watch was acquired in 2017 by Fitbit, and I went to be a Product Designer and Design Manager for them.

Product Designer

Adobe

In my time at Adobe, I moved from a Graphic Designer role in the marketing department to a Visual Designer role for the same product and, ultimately, for the last two years, to a Product Designer role as part of the innovation team tasked with validating next-generation products for Adobe.

Through a Lean Startup methodology we were validating product ideas and opportunities, at a fast pace, employing user interviews, prototyping and usability testing, working within a cross-functional team of developers, product managers and designers.

The most notable achievement is validating the MVP for what would become Adobe Stock and the Libraries feature inside Photoshop, Illustrator and other five Adobe CC products.

Various

Freelance Digital Designer

I am a Senior Design Executive, Investor, and Advisor who began his career back in 2005. Since then, I had the opportunity to work for startups, design studios, and big brands alike, having built products and design teams from scratch for companies like Adobe and Fitbit.

More recently, I served as Chief Design Officer for Berlin-based start-up Actio. With a drive for entrepreneurship, I founded my own Product Design Studio back in 2020 and grew that to a 7 figure yearly revenue in less than two years, exiting in late 2023. I now serve as an advisor and investor for several tech start-ups across the world.

My happy place is helping other designers grow and create stellar work. Having hired and mentored hundreds of designers to date, I'm currently focused on scaling up my Design Academy, founded three years ago.

Feel free to contact me for the following:
* Public speaking opportunities (panels, podcasts, events, corporate training)
* Advisory roles on Product Design
* Opportunities on the level of Co-Founder or Senior Design Leadership

Make sure to check my recommendations on my profile here if you'd like to know what it's like to work with me.

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Everyday tasks

- Working side-by-side with Engineers,
- Create user journey maps with high-fidelity UI
- Create holistic user experiences to match customer and business needs
- Being a crucial part of our product development process, driving design projects from concept to delivery
- Create prototypes for testing with clients
- Planning user interviews
- Conducting user interviews
- Synthesizing discussions with users and prioritizing insights to meet the business goals
- Deliver project specifications and support the implementation
- Supervise and test the implementation of the product to respect the design system, style guide, and product requirements.
- Contributing to the Design System
- Research every week and testing of products launched by the competition

Ownership of the website, App, and back-end platform.

Founder Product & Brand Designer

PitechPlus

My tasks and responsibilities include:

- Working side-by-side with Engineers, Product Managers, Business analysts, and Product Owners.
- Create user journey maps with high-fidelity wireframes
- Create holistic user experiences to match customer and business needs
- Being a crucial part of our product development process, driving design projects from concept to delivery
- Create prototypes for testing and stakeholder review
- Partner with the UX Research team to drive discovery initiatives 
- Planning user interviews with the UX Research team
- Conducting user interviews
- Synthesizing discussions with users and prioritizing insights with stakeholders
- Drive co-creation sessions with other team members and stakeholders
- Deliver project specifications and support the implementation
- Testing the implementation of the product to respect the Design system, the Style guide, and the Product requirements.
- Contributing to the Design System
- Weekly research and testing of products launched by the competition

Sr. UX/UI Product Designer

T-Me Studios

It is working on a web-based platform that could develop custom mobile apps and export them for clients and testing.

The primary responsibility was to develop a new section that could easily manage the content from the exported apps:

- Set design requirements based on user research and internal teams' information.
- Identify new product improvement opportunities and validate with the stakeholders
- Analyze how the product satisfies market needs and how the consumer responds.
- Stay up to date on current industry trends and market best practices.
- Coordinate with other design team members.
- Reiterating existing designs to meet changing customer and stakeholders' preferences.
- Work closely with product engineers to suggest improvements for products and processes.
- Present product design ideas and user flows to cross-functional teams.

Sr. Product UX/UI Designer

Aurachain

A Week here at Aurachain:

- Working with Blockchain and Smart contracts technology
- Active thought leadership in user experience challenges and trends
- Design graphic user interface elements, like wizards, navigation elements, data visualizations, and widgets
- Brainstorming with almost all the teams when it comes to develop a feature
- Collaborate closely with development teams
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineers and Researchers to define the next generation of thoughtful migration and administrator tools for business
- Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality
- Applying user-centric approach to design and an understanding of how to apply user research data
- Represent the team and personal point of view in cross-organization efforts, to accomplish shared goals
- Conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our users
- Design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant for our supported desktop and mobile platforms
- Seek out creative, design-led solutions to challenging problems
- Think at a high level about creative strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build')
- Ability to adapt the designs across platforms and form factors with an understanding of the opportunities with and limitations of different platforms and form factors

BestJobs

My challenge

As a Product UX/UI Designer I collaborate with product managers to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience. Working in teams following lean and agile development practices.

A day at the office

We make brainstorming meetings with product managers, validate ideas with UX designers, talking with developers, to understand the product technical limitations in order to develop the best functionality for the product.

Working on high fidelity wireframes and user journeys for web platform, mobile app(iOS and Android), after that, we develop the final prototype version of the UI Product in Adobe XD. It was first tasted with our team mates and after with the customers.

Responsibilities:

- Mobile App Bestjobs
- Web platform
- Internal Presentation websites, landing pages.
- User Journeys Maps
- Low Fidelity & High Fidelity Wireframes
- Prototyping in Adobe XD
- Iterative wireframes and visuals
- Interviews with stakeholders
- Writing documentation for development as well as validating it with the managers from the other departments.
- Supervising and working close to the Development Department to follow the Final Guideline of the Product.

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My mission
 
As a Product UX/UI Designer I'm working on e-hailing products. I translate business objectives and user needs into functional interaction requirements and design patterns. Collaborate with project management, quality assurance, and business analysis functions to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience and working in teams following lean and agile development practices.
 
A day to day
 
We make brainstorming meetings with product owners, validate ideas with the marketing department, sales department and support department. Talking with drivers, fleet owners and passengers and the next step is to understand their needs, and then validating their feedback with our stakeholders.
I'm working on low fidelity wireframes to high fidelity wireframes and mockups for passenger app, driver app, support platform, finance platform and corporate platform, after that we develop the final prototype version of the UI Product in Invision or Principle and we test it first with the team mates and after with the drivers, fleet owners or with passengers.
 
Responsibilities:
 
- Mobile Passenger App & Driver App
- Finance platform
- Support platform
- Corporate platform
- Internal Presentation websites, landing pages.
- User Journeys Maps
- Low Fidelity & High Fidelity Wireframes for Clever products.
- User Testing, focus group interviews
- Prototyping in Invision & Principle
- Iterative wireframes and visuals
- Interviews with stakeholders
- Writing documentation for development as well as validating it with the managers from the other departments.
- Supervising and working close to the Development Department to respect the Final Guideline of the Product.

My mission

As a Product UX/UI Designer I'm working on e-hailing products. I translate business objectives and user needs into functional interaction requirements and design patterns. Collaborate with project management, quality assurance, and business analysis functions to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience and working in teams following lean and agile development practices.

A day to day

We make brainstorming meetings with product owners, validate ideas with the marketing department, sales department and support department. Talking with drivers, fleet owners and passengers and the next step is to understand their needs, and then validating their feedback with our stakeholders.
I'm working on low fidelity wireframes to high fidelity wireframes and mockups for passenger app, driver app, support platform, finance platform and corporate platform, after that we develop the final prototype version of the UI Product in Invision or Principle and we test it first with the team mates and after with the drivers, fleet owners or with passengers.

Responsibilities:

- Mobile Passenger App & Driver App
- Finance platform
- Support platform
- Corporate platform
- Internal Presentation websites, landing pages.
- User Journeys Maps
- Low Fidelity & High Fidelity Wireframes for Clever products.
- User Testing, focus group interviews
- Prototyping in Invision & Principle
- Iterative wireframes and visuals
- Interviews with stakeholders
- Writing documentation for development as well as validating it with the managers from the other departments.
- Supervising and working close to the Development Department to respect the Final Guideline of the Product.

Sr. Product UX/UI Designer (Formerly Clevertaxi)

AY Digital

As a UX/UI Designer I worked on projects like Mobile Apps and Web based Apps and eCommerce. 

From brainstorming with our UX/UI Designers cross the globe to validate Low Fidelity Wireframes with the Products Managers, Stakeholders and the Clients of the company, to High Fidelity Wireframes and Mockups, after that we develop to the final Prototype version of the UI Product and supervising the implementation.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with product owners and UI designers and with developers
- Coordinate with project managers and product owners 
- Design and deliver complex wireframes, user journeys, and information architecture
- Help analyze user feedback and activity and iterate to improve the user experience
- Develop personas, usage scenarios
- Become familiar with syndicated lending and understand business goals
- An internal App for Munch Ado Platform, a analytical platform for all restaurants that we gather as clients from New York

Requirements:

- Mobile Apps
- Internal Presentation websites.
- User Journeys Maps
- Low Fidelity & High Fidelity Wireframes for Apps.
- User Testing, focus group interviews
- Prototyping in Invision
- Supervising and working close to Dev Department to respect the Final Guideline of the UI Product

Sr. UI/UX Designer

GoWild Casino

Responsibilities:

- Work with users and stakeholders to discover user needs and to have a good direction from the beginning, and work with the product team to prioritize items in the overall product roadmap
- Create low-fidelity and high-fidelity wireframes to explore, explain and illustrate complex application interactions and flows
- Work independently on your own track of work, but still be able to work with other UX leads across other tracks to create and adhere to common standards and patterns.
- Design innovative, original, usable, and delightful solutions for UI products.
- Facilitate user workshops with the Lead and explain your design ideas through white boarding 
- Work with the visual design team to define and apply application visual standards
- Work closely with developers to support the realization of your ideas on the screen
- Conduct usability testing, user research and focus group interviews

Requirements:

- Creating Gambling Web Sites,
- Landing Pages, Banners and animated Banners, 
- Newsletters
- Prototyping in Invision
- Supervising Dev Department to respect the final Digital Product

Sr.UI/UX Designer

Trencadis

I'm optimizing the Apps interfaces for a better user experience, because when it comes to navigate into an App/Site or buying some products through an App, the users can encounter difficulties and become very frustrated.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the entire design process, from sketches or low-fidelity wireframes to high-fidelity pixel-perfect UI
- Obtain buy-in and support from key stakeholders early and often to avoid delays of the deliverable 
- Be instrumental in planning & research with Product and Dev to define and drive the direction of the product
- Define and maintain the aesthetic, voice & tone for visual and interaction design, including color palette, typography, iconography, motion implementation and style guide
- Lead design reviews to ensure that the finished product adheres to the design communicated to the engineering team, and be ready to clearly rationalize and justify design work
- Master research-guided, and data-driven problem solving to help deliver thoughtful design solutions in the form of sketches, wireframes, prototypes or user journeys
- Conduct usability testing, analyze user feedback and metrics and iterate on the UX and UI based on findings
- Understand technical, business, and time limitations, and design within these constraints

Requirements:

- Mobile App for Transilvania Bank.
- Presentations for ERP and big architecture software.
- Internal Presentation websites.
- Wireframes for Apps.
- Prototyping in Invision
- Prototyping in Pixate
- Prototyping in Protoio
- Prototyping in Marvel

Sr.UI/UX Designer Freelancer Collaborator

Envato

Since I discovered Envato in 2010, I pretty much I worked on everything as a debutant freelancer, such as:


- Flyers, Business Cards,
- Facebook covers, 
- Landing Pages, eCommerce Web Sites, Presentation Websites, 
- Responsive & Retina Layouts,


All my items you can find them here:

https://graphicriver.net/user/spelunkush/portfolio?sso=1&_ga=1.135296054.60749496.1481748260

Freelancer Graphic Designer/UI Designer/UX Designer

Visual Portfolio: https://dribbble.com/EasyPixels
In my portfolio, you will find just the final UI part; all the wireframes and UX case studies I've worked on are confidential.

I have been working as a designer for more than 14 years across diverse domains, such as Recruitment, Healthcare, Finance, Gaming, Fintech, Neobanking, Blockchain, Crypto, Mobility, Investment platforms, e-commerce, advertising, Food, and Beverage, switching roles based on the projects; from Graphic designer/Art Director to UI/UX designer for several years and in my last five years more on the Product Design & Branding and strategy side.

I have a passion for photography, music, design, and psychology. Occasionally, I support this free stock photo community Unsplash.

https://medium.com/@bostan.florin89
https://unsplash.com/@bijurache

Older visual portfolio
https://www.behance.net/Bijurache
https://dribbble.com/Bijuric

You can quickly get in touch with me via:

Email - bostan.florin89@gmail.com
Phone - 0730334935

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