Karolina Oczkowicz UX Designer & Researcher
Contact: [email protected] or +34 690 68 37 52
Portfolio: www.karolinaoczkowicz.com
EDUCATION
2019 Interaction Design Foundation Mobile User Experience (UX) Design
2019 Interaction Design Foundation User Research – Methods and Best Practices
2018 - 2019 CareerFoundry Intensive course for UX designer, specializing in User Centered Design fundamentals and methodology, data and research driven approaches to design, as well as prototyping and wireframing.
2010-2016 Warsaw School of Economics Ms in International Business & Economics
SKILLS & TOOLS Brainstorming + Ideation (Pen & Paper) Card Sorting (Optimal Workshop) User Flow (Draw.io, Miro) Design + prototyping (Figma) Design (Sketch) Prototyping (Invision) Testing (Invision + Zoom, UsabilityHub) Handoff (Zeplin, InVision) File Management (Google Drive, Dropbox) HTML/CSS/Version-control system (Git, Github) Monitoring (Hotjar, Fullstory, Google Analytics)
OTHER SKILLS Design Thinking User & Conversion Centered Design User & Usability Testing Lean UX/Agile UX HTML/CSS Critical thinking and problem-solving skills User empathy Polish, English & Spanish (Working proficiency) Working knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research techniques & methods
EXPERIENCE
CareerFoundry UX Design Tutor (Freelance) November 2019 - Current, Barcelona, ES
• Identifying individual student needs and strategizing on how to close specific skill gaps by suggesting supplementary learning materials.
• Evaluating student work and giving actionable recommendations to improve the quality of student submissions and design.
Freelance UX Designer July 2018 - Current, Barcelona, ES
• Analysis, conceptualization and design of digital interfaces for different clients.
• Understanding business objectives applying different research methods to discover the users’ preferences and needs.
• Collaborating with designers and developers to create intuitive, user-friendly software.
Stakeholder Coordinator JENNMAR CORP. Nov 2011 - July 2018, Stalowa Wola (PL) - BCN (ES)
• Coordinating planning efforts affecting different stakeholders for all project plans, including communication management, issue management, requirements management, change management, testing and implementation.
• Working closely with the production plants in production iterative cycles based on real feedback from the customers.
• Coordinating customer communications from the project to all levels of end user and stakeholders to maintain a consistent and accurate message from project staff.
