I have always been passionate for designing products that are useful, intuitive, and pleasant for the users. My background in industrial design gave me the most powerful foundation for successful design – understand user’s needs and validate design solutions with them. As a kid, I always liked drawing cars, aircrafts, ships, household items and objects from our every day life. When I got exposed to industrial design, I found very fascinating to research, plan, design and market products that make people lives easier – from desk lamps, bicycle components, tools, interior and exterior design, transportation, cityscape, urban planning… All these disciplines had one common factor in mind – improve the user experience by understanding how people use the products.
Born and raised in city of Varna, Bulgaria, I started my career in 2003 and have gained a diverse experience as a 3D, industrial, graphics, multimedia, motion and interaction designer. My interest towards user experience and interface design sparked in 2010, discovering my biggest passion – to provide simple and intuitive solutions for complex business objectives and user needs that work on a variety of screens.
For the last decade, I have helped small and medium size organizations with design solutions for web-based business applications for the government and private sectors. This has given me the great opportunity to get exposure to challenging aspects of two completely different target audiences.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
I currently work as a Senior Product Designer at Bloomberg Industry Group in Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. As a key member of a product team, I wear many hats, and i like them all 🙂
Besides being a user advocate and problem solver, I take a lead role in the design strategy, planning, organization, task distribution between team members.
Seeing the “big picture” and unifying the UX voice across the board has been my ongoing mission.
OTHER DESIGN DISCIPLINES
Besides user interface and user experience design, I have extensive experience in multimedia design, motion graphics, 3D visualizations (renderings and animations), graphics design and corporate branding. These days, my motivation and goals are to find creative ways to incorporate all of these skills into a modern, engaging and exciting user experience.
OUTSIDE OF WORK
When not working, I enjoy being outdoors with my family, mountain biking, road cycling, photography, DSLR videography.
I am one of the lucky one who can truly say that I love what I do and I do what I love.
Want to learn more about me and my work? Let’s get in touch!