Aiia Stotik | Notion

Tbilisi, Georgia (ready to relocate)

E-mail / LinkedIn / Behance

Tel: +995514734664 / Telegram

Hi there! I'm a passionate UI/UX designer with a deep appreciation for contemporary design. I bring inclusive, minimal, and future-oriented user experience.

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Professional experience

ThinkSeb (Digital growth concept agency, Cyprus, 2024-…) - UI/UX & Web Designer, Assistant to Team Lead

Functional focus: Strategic UX Design, Design System Leadership, UI Development, Cross-functional Collaboration

Collaboration & Leadership: Assisted the Team Lead in managing design teams, streamlining client deliverables, and mentoring junior designers.
Design Leadership: Designed websites for various businesses, contributing to successful investment rounds for AI startups.
Design Systems: Played a key role in systemizing the product design language, maintaining custom UI kits for web projects.
Figma Proficiency: Developed and managed a Figma design system library, ensuring consistent and scalable design solutions.
User-Centric Design: Implemented A11Y guidelines to improve website accessibility, enhancing user experience across platforms.
Metrics & Analysis: Utilized analytics and user feedback to optimize website navigation and user flow, achieving significant improvements in user satisfaction and engagement.
Performance Optimization: Employed metrics such as time on task, average session length, CSAT, NPS, and SUS to analyze MVP efficiency, achieving a 20% improvement in user onboarding and a 15% increase in conversion rates.
User Experience Optimization: Conducted A/B testing and user feedback analysis to refine website navigation and user flow, resulting in a 25% increase in user satisfaction and engagement.

UPROCK (Design agency, Russia, 2023-2024) - UI/UX Intern

Functional focus: UX Design, UI Development, Wireframing, Prototyping, Competitor Analysis

Design Excellence: Successfully designed concepts and adaptive websites across diverse sectors, including e-commerce, landing pages, and news platforms, crafting custom UI kits to enhance user experience.
Design Recognition: Emerged as one of the winners in an agency-wide design challenge, with the Zrobim architectural bureau design concept showcased on Uprock’s Behance profile.
Prototyping & MVP Development: Created prototypes for two mobile apps using both third-party and proprietary design libraries, ensuring consistent and intuitive user interfaces.

Hexens (Cybersecurity startup, UK, 2022-2023) - Content and Business Development Manager

Functional focus: Content Strategy, UX Writing, Marketing, Client Communications

Marketing Success: Orchestrated a highly successful Twitter campaign, resulting in a 74% increase in subscribers within 1.5 months.
Email Marketing: Executed an e-mail marketing campaign with an impressive 97% open rate.
UX Writing: Enhanced UX writing content for company and product websites to improve user engagement.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlined work processes by creating a new onboarding course and transitioning part of internal communications to Notion for better task assignment and tracking.

Skills

Main tool - FIgma: Auto layouts, Components, Variants, Smart animate, Figjam, Prototyping

AI Skills: ChatGPT, Uizard (wireframes, prototypes), QoQo (user persona, info architecture), BlogSEO AI, Browse AI (data extraction), Plus AI (presentations)

Design skills: UX Strategy, UI Development, UX Writing, Concept Development, Design Research, Creative Strategy, Wireframing, Competitor Analysis, Prototyping, Usability Testing, User Flow

Technical skills: Figma, Adobe XD, Tilda, Sketch, Photoshop

Languages: Russian native, English С1 (IELTS 7,5), German (TestDaf) B1

Education

The NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies (2024) – Two short intensive courses ****

Immersed in Cognitive Science by taking classes on Neuropragmatics (brain processes for the construction of context-appropriate meanings for the purpose of the communicative exchange) and Omni or Super Linguistics (different types of meaning expressed through various channels in spoken and written communication (words and their parts, gestures, facial expressions, prosody, modifications of typed and handwritten text, emoji, etc.) at different levels of representation).

UPROCK Design School (2021-2022) – UI/UX & Web Designer

Acquired proficiency in design principles, wireframing, prototyping, and user-centered design methodologies (JTBD, UF, CJM).

Moscow City University (2017-2021) – Bachelor of Arts in Philology

Ranked in the top 10% of all students; completed a thesis on concepts in cognitive linguistics, a departmental first.