Resume UX/UI Designer

Mikhail Kokin

UX/UI designer, product designer

I’m an innovative UI/UX Designer with a passion
for creating engaging and intuitive
product’s designs. Skilled in UX researching/
artifacts building, Lo-Fi /Wireframe prototyping,
fast Hi-fi designing, creating easy & ready for
handoff Figma files, 2D Digital art &
AI prompting. Proficient in Figma, Adobe
Creative Suite, Krita, Stable Diffusion. Adept
at working collaboratively in team to ensure
successful project completion & worked with a
English speaking clients.

Kyiv (Hybrid, Remote)
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@MikhailKokin (https://t.me/MikhailKokin)

Behance (https://www.behance.net/MikhailKokin)

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikhail-kokin-995103273)

Upwork (https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~************637e76?viewMode=1)

My website (https://bento.me/mikhail-kokin)

Experience

(******** month)

Fulltime middle UI/UX Designer | 2023

Springs (https://springsapps.com)(6 months)

Goal: The team needs an experienced UI/UX
designer to fulfill customer orders from Upwork
and develop design solutions for Springs'
internal products.

My responsibilities: Client meetings with sales
together, estimating contracts. Solo
communication with client, solo project
responsibilities. Providing design strategy. UX
analysis, Prototyping hypotheses, UI design,
Hand off documentation. In company UI/UX
responsibilities.

Highlights: Engaged clients to trust us with
design process. Successfully provided client
with design solution that engaged new
audience. Assisted and designed new design
solutions for company website that made user
experience more clear. (https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~************637e76?viewMode=1)

Fulltime Product Designer | 2023

IRLY (https://www.irlyapp.com) (6 Months)

Goal: We are IRLY and searching talented
product designer, that capable to design our
application.

My responsibilities: Product analysis,
competitive research, app design (UI design)

Highlights: I did successful survey research that 
helped me speedup design process. I 
successfully designed two MVP versions for 
investors overview. I designed engaging landing 
page and did infographic KIT

 UI/UX Designer | 2023

PurrfectShare (2 Months)

Project: A web-based SaaS for a quick file 
sharing without registration 

My responsibilities: I was a scrum master (Jira) 
that organized two epics for this project’s stage. 
With a product owner we’re discussed potential 
proto personas and I started qualitative 
research with a surveys and interviews. 
Gathered data I used to create User Stories, 
built personas and suggested hypotheses to 
add in SaaS. Created lo-fi prototype to test 
functionality. Created Hi-fi final stage design, 
created a design system. Prepared file for 
developers with documentations.

Highlights: Successfully provided team as a 
scrum master/designer

 Mobile UI/UX Designer | 2023

StarryGO (1.5 Months)

Project: IOS streaming service app

My responsibilities: qualitative research: 
created a public survey and invited respondents 
for a detailed interview. UX Research: After 
collecting data from the survey and interviews, 
I built Jobs to be done and CJM to find ways 
to solve the problem and to synchronize with 
my team and clearly divide responsibilities 
in it to design the future project. Created a Kano 
Model. Prototyping: tested hypotheses and 
designed the application functionality in a Lo-
Fi version. Launched unmoderated user testing 
to add or remove hypotheses. Hi-fi design: 
Created related UI Kit & designed application 
screens and prepared a file for the ready 
to handoff stage for devs.

Highlights: Provided developer team with a 
detailed UI KIT and ready for a hand off files

UI/UX Designer | 2022

Synrie  (https://www.linkedin.com/company/synrie/about/)(1 Months)

Project: a SaaS-based mobile app that makes 
digital transformation easy for freelancers and 
small and micro businesses through integrating 
omnichannel communication (Email, SMS, 
WhatsApp, and other social messaging apps), 
contacts data, and customer relationships 
(CRM) into one single view app

My responsibilities: I was invited for a project to 
create Hi-Fi design for a mobile app. I already 
had a CJM from company and I created app’s 
screens, created UI KIT with documentations. 
My role finished on this stage. The employer was 
satisfied with my part of the work.

UI/UX Design services | 2021

Palponauto (https://palponauto.it) (2 Months)

Project: Branded website for car selling/buying 
in Italy

My responsibilities: It was my first big fulltime 
project, where I was able to provide client with a 
UI/UX design. I made competitive research, built 
informational architecture, I designed website 
as it was requested. We did sync work online 
together to create high converted website

Skills

Mind mapping
Prototyping (Lo-fi design)
Wireframing
UX research
UX artifacts building
UI design (Hi-fi design)
2D Digital art
AI manipulation

Tools

Figma
Maze
Trello
Jira
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Krita
Stable Diffusion (localhost)

Languages

English
Upper Intermediate (B2)

Courses

UI/UX design
Mate academy (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U1lWQTTUmgD1YZsy_pL5-RWVpOicyUOZ/view?usp=sharing)

UX fundamentals
Gymnasium (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jk7H6wH3q4XfFQZvs6sS8fC2fkfHmVnm/view?usp=share_link)

Quality Assurance
Power Academy (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y-1zJ_7vq8YHtnijUb3yXNVCd9KtTlDj/view?usp=share_link)

HTML + CSS Basics
Mate academy (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U1lWQTTUmgD1YZsy_pL5-RWVpOicyUOZ/view?usp=sharing)

Books

Dont’ make me think
Steve Krug

100 Things every designer needs to know
Susan Weinschenk

What how & why of Design Systems
Andrea Hock

UI pedia
Pixcel Academy

How to win friends and influence people
Dale Carnegie 

Achievements 

6 years of a 2D Digital art experience
(https://www.artstation.com/darkauron52)I draw manga volumes & one-shots
Won Ukrainian championship cup 3 times 
Was a scrum master in commercial project

Education

Kyiv National University of Trade and 

Economics

Bachelor - Software engineering 

Project: Created a project and won 3rd place at 
the competitive conference inside the 
University (2023)