I am now part of the amazing .fromScratch Studio team, so happy leading and coaching this great group of UXers and Product designers 😁
.fromScratch Studio is a digital Product Design studio, loving building great ideas into beautiful user experiences and awesome products, covering all fields of a product lifecycle.
I am (also) now part of the awesome Geekbot team 😀
Geekbot is a team's assistant, running as a Slack or MS Teams app, that helps users offload all the organizational and managerial overhead, by automating flows like daily standups, meetings, retrospectives, surveys, check-ins, and every team's process, visualizing valuable team's insights.
DEVit is a non-profit conference organized by volunteers. All proceeds are used to bringing top-tier speakers and organizing advanced workshops on all trending web technologies. It takes place every year in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is known for its top speaking talent, a mixture of world-class and world-renowned developers, highly specialized technology niches and developers who are the edge of the technology frontiers.
On 2018, we redesigned from scratch the website experience.
Process
Competitive Analysis Information Architecture Guerrilla Usability Tests Wireframes Prototypes
Openhouse is a real estate platform that offers a new experience for users in searching for house and business properties. Using state of the art tools, cutting edge technology, AI and open data, Openhouse offers advanced tools and great quality results, that meet users’ real needs.
Process
Stakeholders Interviews Personas Field Studies Competitive Analysis Information Architecture Guerrilla Usability Tests Wireframes Prototypes Design System
User Testing insights, with the power of AI. VisualEyes simulates eye-tracking studies and preference tests with a 93% accurate predictive technology.
Loceye is a biometric eye tracking platform, which enables your team to design with confidence, optimize digital assets like website content, images, emails, ad creatives, videos, and more to help you achieve the highest visual and emotional impact.
Universis is an open source Student Information System, based and supported by the collaboration between academic institutions, aiming to meet the real needs of a demanding community. The project's goal is to re-design the whole universities' eco-system of products, for teachers, students and administration.
Process
Stakeholders Interviews Personas User Interviews Information Architecture Wireframes Prototypes Design System
HARICA is a Certification Authority, one of the few 'Root CA Operators' that participates in all major Global 'ROOT CA' Trust Programs, and operates as a 'Trust Anchor' in widely used Application Software and Operating Systems. On 2018, funded by Academic Network (GUnet, a non-profit civil company), its members were all the Higher Education and Academic Institutions of Greece.
At that point, we started the transformation of the CM platform, on its way to become a commercial PKI solutions provider for everyone in the world.
Process
Stakeholders Interviews Personas Field Studies Competitive Analysis Information Architecture Wireframes Prototypes Design System
For a long time, the official application for Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was a simple m-dot site.
Enough is enough. We redesigned the mobile app based on our User Research insights, freshing it up, covering user needs.
Process
Personas Behavioral Analysis Wireframes Prototypes Design System Desirability Studies
"myAuth" mobile app created for the students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) as a tool that collects all the appropriate information about their studies, into one place. Check the Design process and the methods that were used, here.
"elearning.auth" is the central e-Learning platform of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and one of the most important services provided to the whole academic community. As is used by about 45.000 everyday users, the project was about observing the usage behavior, understanding the user needs, habits and goals, revealing the most impactful problems, and proposing solutions that could be easily adopted, improving the user's experience in several aspects.
Process
User Surveys Focus Groups Behavioral Analysis Expert Review Low Fidelity Mockups
"sis.auth" is the Student Information System of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a web interface which provides information about courses and grades to students and teachers.
The project was about updating the initial version, aiming to identify and remove all the current cognitive friction and provide flows and interface where users could do more things with less effort.
Process
Content Audit Behavioral Analysis Personas Information Architecture Card Sorting Wireframes Mockups
Openeclass is an opensource Courses Management System, which is used by nearly all academic institutions in Greece, alongside with schools of secondary education, supporting a great number of online courses attended by thousands of participants. Check the Design process and the methods that were used, here.
As a UX Designer for GUnet
The IT Center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki created in 2013 as 4 different units merged into one. In order to offer great documentation and support for over 30 university services, the IT Center web portal was the number one priority.
Process
Content Audit Stakeholders Interviews Personas Wireframes MockupsPrototypes
The creation of a new IT center in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, which was responsible for over 30 web services, led about 45000 users to great confusion. The project was about creating a brand new identity, a strong Company Profile, a Design System and Style Guides to convert dotted services into one family of university tools. Check here the Design process and the methods that were used.
As a UX Designer for the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Back in the old days. This project was about designing custom website layouts for special clients, from scratch. It was quite challenging to draw layouts in paper together with the clients, but the result was awesome.
