Alexandru Adam

Product Designer

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About

Highly skilled Product Designer with a proven track record of delivering user-centric and business-aligned design solutions. Adept at leveraging research insights, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and employing iterative design processes to create impactful products that enhance user experience and drive business growth.

Work Experience

Product Designer

123FormBuilder

Mar 2022 - Present

Led design initiatives at 123FormBuilder, driving product enhancements that positively impacted thousands of users and enterprise clients within a continuous discovery framework.

  • Drove design for over 10 key initiatives, significantly impacting thousands of monthly active customers and hundreds of enterprise clients by enhancing product-led, continuous discovery.
  • Resolved critical usability issues and optimized core user flows, directly improving product adoption and feature value recognition through close collaboration with PMs, researchers, and engineers.
  • Spearheaded end-to-end design processes, from problem framing and competitive research to iterative visual design and high-fidelity prototyping, ensuring user-centered solutions.
  • Orchestrated and led comprehensive usability testing and discovery interviews, translating insights into actionable design improvements that enhanced user experience.

Product Designer

Youni

Jun 2021 - Mar 2022

Collaborated within a two-person design team at Youni to shape product strategy and deliver new features, enhancing key user flows and mobile responsiveness.

  • Contributed to product strategy and decision-making within a two-designer team, effectively communicating design rationale to business and marketing stakeholders.
  • Conducted comprehensive usability tests, extracting key findings that led to significant improvements in pupil onboarding, personalized recommendations, and consultant communication flows.
  • Designed and delivered new features, including flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity screens, ensuring platform responsiveness for mobile through agile collaboration with an in-house development team.

Product Designer (Project-Based)

The Michelin Guide

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

Led a redesign project for The Michelin Guide, focusing on enhancing user experience and accessibility for restaurant discovery and booking.

  • Conducted comprehensive user research, including usability testing, quantitative surveys, persona development, and journey mapping, to extract actionable insights for redesign.
  • Analyzed competitor platforms to identify best practices and inform feature and content improvements for the redesign initiative.
  • Developed and implemented a new user flow that resolved critical usability and accessibility issues related to finding and booking desirable restaurants on the platform.

Product Designer (Project-Based)

StudentSide

Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

Developed an educational app concept for StudentSide, focusing on enhancing collaboration and remote learning for 5th-8th grade students and teachers.

  • Executed in-depth interviews and desk research to identify digital tool opportunities for enhancing collaboration and socialization among gymnasium pupils beyond the classroom.
  • Performed competitive analysis and developed detailed user personas and empathy maps to guide the strategic design of the educational application.
  • Designed intuitive sitemaps and a streamlined onboarding flow tailored for 5th-8th grade student users, improving accessibility and engagement.

Education

Architecture

University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu"

Sep 2010 - Jun 2016

Skills

UX Research & Strategy

  • Usability Testing
  • User Interviews
  • Competitive Analysis
  • User Journey Mapping
  • Usability Heuristics
  • Problem-solving
  • Design Thinking
  • Empathy

UI/UX Design & Prototyping

  • UI Design
  • Design Systems
  • User Flows
  • Wire-framing
  • Hi-Fidelity Screens
  • Prototyping
  • Sketching
  • Accessibility

Tools

  • Figma
  • Miro
  • Notion

Professional Skills

  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Curiosity
  • Independence