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EXPERIENCE

UX / Product Designer / Consultant
01/2025 - present
• Taking my knowledge of games and gamification into other industries, designing for Web and Android / iOS, consulting on improving user experience 
• Mentoring and helping with organization of non-profit projects (TechLabs Berlin, Employed.world)

Senior UI / UX Designer at Voodoo (Mobile Games Studio with 623 M € revenue)
07/2023 - 12/2024
reworked legacy feature, fixing UX and increasing user engagement in a Mobile Game with 10M+ Downloads
worked on updating UI style, created high fidelity mock-ups, prototypes and user journeys, implemented assets in Unity project
was responsible for cross-department communication, worked closely with engineers and product manager
conducted user research and usability testing sessions

Senior Game Artist / UI UX Designer at Kolibri Games (Mobile Games Studio with 46,7 M € revenue in 2023-24)
02/2021 - 06/2023
• conducted UX research, competitor research; contributed to shipping updates weekly, improving retention
• participated in planning and reviews, was responsible for aligning with different departments
• was responsible for UI UX design for a new feature, increasing in-game purchases
• created wireframes, mockups, animations, graphic assets and icons, updated documentation

UI Designer / later - UX Designer / temp Project Lead (8 months) at TreasureHunt (later - Huuuge) (Mobile Games studios)
10/2018 - 01/2021
created wireframes, mockups, user journeys
Worked closely with Lead UI UX Designer on UI and UX tasks for “Trolls” DreamWorks-IP
Worked with marketing department to find the right direction for marketing campaigns, translated company’s OKRs into specific tasks and KPIs

Freelance comic book artist - Disney Publishing
11/2015 - 10/2018
• Illustrations: illustrated books and comics for Disney, Marvel and Pixar IPs

Graphic Designer/ Marketing Designer - Playrix
09/2015 - 04/2016
• "Township", "Fishdom" and "Gardenscapes" Mobile games - created variety of 2D artworks and marketing materials

Junior Game Artist - Plamee
02/2014 - 08/2015

Junior Artist / Animator - Melnitsa Animation Studio
01/2013 - 01/2014

EDUCATION

M.A. Expanded Media (focus: UI, Design Thinking, Gamification, Media Design)
Darmstadt University of Applied Science
2017-2018

M.A. Animation and Graphics
Saint Petersburg Cinema and TV University
2007-2013

LANGUAGES

German - C1 - Proficient

English - C1/C2 - Proficient

SKILLS & SOFTWARE

  • UI UX Design

  • Service Design

  • Journey Maps

  • Mockups

  • Prototyping

  • Usability Testing

  • UX Research

  • User Interviews / Workshops

  • A/B-Testing

  • Gamification

  • Accessibility

  • Design systems

  • Illustration

  • Basic HTML / CSS

  • Figma, Adobe CS, Affinity, After Effects

  • Unity 3D

  • Framer, Webflow

  • Jira, Confluence, Miro

  • AI Tools: Bolt, Claude, etc.

CONTACT

kate.myshalova@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/myshalova/