Adrian M.

Senior UX & UI Designer

Company • Full-time

Aug 2024 - Apr 2026 • 1 yr 8 mos

(Solid Clouds) • Led UX and UI for App Store and Google Play featured update that reached a record 3,703 DAU. • Identified and validated a significant experience issues in player journey by introducing lightweight user research, running playtests with first-time players, and synthesizing 2 years of feedback from a 6.5K+ Discord community, which led to the redesign of gameplay system and optimization of background connection stability. • Introduced structured Figma flows, developer annotations, documentation, and implementation-ready motion prototypes, reducing handoff time by approximately 50% while minimizing ambiguity, infeasible animations, and missing assets. • Advanced organization’s design maturity from stage 1 to stage 3 by demonstrating UX impact, improving design operations, and securing Game Director buy-in for earlier UX involvement. Joined weekly game design meetings which allowed for early problem and solution exploration. • Improved design system by reducing number of components by 50% while improving usability and visual style. Additionally, undertook additional work in form of the UI animation design and front-end web implementation, reducing developer dependency and streamlining production. • Expanded scope to own the around-game experience and drive innovation on web-based user acquisition streams. Within two weeks: – Verified current state of analytics and web setup, then identified and fixed significant technical SEO issues, which reduced impressions from irrelevant search queries by 90%. – Collected entire lore story across two games created by the studio, Starborne: Sovereign Space & Starborne: Frontiers, and structured it into clear timeline, shaping the source of truth for future content production. – Created 3-month strategy covering user acquisition and around-game experience as a new opportunity created by the introduction of the offline progression.

Experience/Service Designer

Self Employed

Dec 2023 - Aug 2024 • 8 mos

• Reduced support desk workload by approximately 25 hours per month by reducing customer friction points. • Identified a key monetization risk around premium content security and mapped it into the broader strategy. • Reduced operational costs by automating access monetization for 250+ user community.

Product Designer

company • Part-time

Dec 2021 - Aug 2024 • 2 yrs 8 mos

(Maverick Nation) • Delivered application tool for EU-Expansion Program used by 40+ startups. • Automated internal workflows based on business needs, stakeholder input, and technical constraints. • Undertook additional work in form of direct development, significantly reducing development costs and enabling lean production.