Denis Lesak

Designer in Burbank, CA, United States

Member since September 30, 2019

Denis is a strategic W3 product designer and design system advocate passionate about solving problems and creating deeply felt experiences. He advocates for a process-driven approach to design that relies equally on empathy, data, and the ability to ideate quickly. Denis is a deft collaborator with a reputation for consensus-building. His goal is to enrich lives, one interaction at a time.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

NFT Marketplace
- Web 3.0
- Blockchain
3D Model Mobile App
- Mobile
- UI Design
- Mobile UI Design
- Framer X
- Sketch
- Motion Design
- Mobile UX Design
- Product Design
Enterprise Web App – 3D Models
- Product Design
- Enterprise SaaS
- Web UI
- Dark UIs
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- UX Flows
Design System – Disney Studios
- Design Systems
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Sketch
- Sketch Library
- Component Libraries
Ticketmaster – Pricing Tool
- Product Design
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- Ticketing
- Web
- Enteprise
Ticketmaster – Component Usage Guidelines
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- Design Systems
- Branding
- Sketch
Hautelook – The Proactive Filter
- User Interface (UI)
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interviews
- User Journeys
- Product Design
Ticketmaster – Comparison Table
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- Product Design
- Enterprise
- Data
- Data Table
- Data Visualization
Service Titan – Mobile Redesign
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- Product Design
- InVision
- Sketch
- User Interviews
- User Journeys
- Sitemaps
- Interaction Design (IxD)

Employment

Product Designer
2020 - PRESENT
Meta
- Designed a developer workflow solution app that increased app developer sales and decreased support costs.
- Made a developer documentation site that improved app developer sentiment and developer speed to market.
- Created a developer marketing app that increased user engagement and reduced support costs.
Technologies: Figma, Design Systems, UI, User Research, Visual Design, UX
Senior Product Designer
2019 - 2020
Disney Studios
- Designed a 3D modeling responsive web application for mobile, tablet, and desktop experiences.
- Created a digital fingerprint desktop web application.
- Made a master specs guidelines responsive web application.
- Designed a TV operating system app for children's hospitals that increased user retention and user sentiment.
- Spearheaded the design of a new design system, including design and handoff of 30 global components along with foundational elements: color, typography, spacing, grid, icons, motion, and elevation for both light and dark themes.
Technologies: Framer X, InVision, Sketch, Design Systems, UI, UX, Visual Design
Head of Design Operations
2018 - 2019
Ticketmaster
- Led all design operation efforts for Ticketmaster design as the company’s first-ever head of design operations.
- Launched and designed 30 global components for a new design system.
- Achieved 100% design system adoption among designers; 40% among engineers.
- Created multiple Framer prototypes to assist engineering.
- Designed all component usage guidelines and design on Ticketmaster.
Technologies: Zeplin, InVision, Sketch, Framer X, Design Systems, UI, UX, User Research, Visual Design, DataViz
Senior Product Designer
2017 - 2018
Ticketmaster
- Led all design efforts for the successful launch of an enterprise web application.
- Managed all usability testing for the new application launch.
- Coordinated all UI/UX, prototyping, and interaction design efforts.
- Created multiple Framer prototypes to assist engineering.
- Designed a color system for complex data visualization elements.
Technologies: Zeplin, InVision, Sketch, Design Systems, Visual Design, UI, UX, DataViz
Senior Product Designer
2016 - 2017
Housecall
- Led all product design efforts for a startup with iOS, Android, and web applications.
- Coordinated all usability testing for the redesign effort of the app’s most used page.
- Managed all UI/UX, prototyping, and interaction design efforts.
- Created several animations to assist the engineering.
- Designed color, grid, spacing, and typography systems.
Technologies: Zeplin, InVision, Sketch
Lead Product Designer
2015 - 2016
Service Titan
- Led all product design efforts for a startup with web, iOS, and Android mobile applications.
- Managed a successful launch of the redesigned mobile app in the home service industry.
- Conducted all usability testing and user interviews.
- Led all UX, prototyping, and interaction design efforts.
- Designed color, spacing, grid, and typography system.
Technologies: Zeplin, InVision, Sketch
Senior UX Designer
2014 - 2015
Nordstrom Rack/Hautelook
- Led mobile web redesign efforts for both www.hautelook.com and www.nordstromrack.com.
- Learned the business by meeting with cross-functional leadership reviewing web analytics for both web and iOS apps.
- Instituted low budget, guerrilla-style user interview program to observe and record user shopping behavior across the entire consumer lifecycle.
- Achieved 0.2% conversion lift by designing proactive size filter feature.
- Designed several feature improvements for the iOS app.
Technologies: Sketch, Axure

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Consumer Science
1994 - 1998
University of Wisconsin – Madison - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Experience

Responsive Design8 years
Mobile8 years
Mobile UI6 years
Visual Design5 years
Product Design5 years
User Research4 years
Design Systems4 years
Figma3 years

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