Peter Venglarcik

Senior Product Designer

Košice, Slovakia

Experience

Sep 2019 - Present
5 years 7 months

Senior Product Designer

Vacuumlabs

My contribution as a Senior Product Designer:

  • Collaborating with designers, developers, researchers, PMs, and stakeholders from the initial product discovery to successful delivery.
  • Crafting comprehensive UX, UI, and interactions for digital products and features.
  • Developing prototypes for usability testing.
  • Mentoring and overseeing mid and junior designers.

A selection of projects that I was part of can be found on the links below.

Jul 2014 - Aug 2019
5 years 2 months

Senior UX Designer

GlobalLogic

I was excited to work with our partner, The Economist as a part of the Mobile & Innovation team. In 4 years, I have designed multiple publicly released products, including:

  • The Economist app The main mobile application for the magazine Economist, that substitute obsolete app. It offered a daily curation of top-tier journalism and the complete weekly edition of the newspaper.

I was part of the team from the initial phase to successful delivery. My role involved tasks such as competitor analysis, crafting the entire app from initial wireframes to final UI, building prototypes, and conducting user testing sessions alongside a London-based product researcher. Our goal was to create a remarkable experience catering to both new and existing subscribers, ensuring easy access to the magazine's extensive content. The iOS app received 2 times App of the day award at Apple App Store.

  • Economist Films app Economist Group asked us to create a Films application for watching documentary series and daily news videos on different devices. Films make short, mind-stretching documentaries that examine big global themes. My involvement spanned the project's initiation through successful delivery. I conducted initial research, devised comprehensive UX flows, and crafted the UI. Beyond standard platforms (mobile and tablet), I designed the app also for Xbox, Android TV, Smart TVs & Roku.

  • Economist Espresso app Espresso is an application for daily news updates delivered to a smartphone or inbox before breakfast. It tells what’s on the global agenda in the coming day, what to look out for in business, finance, and politics, and most importantly, what to make of it. My role on the project was UX and UI designer. I enhanced the initial mobile design, created a new experience for smartwatches, and designed the whole tablet experience.

The application received several awards, for example: Winner of the Google Play 2016 Awards in the category Made in GB.

Apr 2011 - Jun 2014
3 years 3 months

UX Designer

Ixonos

  • Designing and wireframing apps
Nov 2007 - May 2010
2 years 7 months

3D/2D Artist

Deantus Projects Limited

  • Modelling and texturing for architectural visualisations
  • Composing 3D objects with 2D image
  • Designing and creating web pages
Jan 2004 - Oct 2007
2 years 10 months

3D/2D Artist, Animator

"So What!" s.r.o

  • Modelling, texturing, rigging and animation characters for video games
  • Finished projects:
    • Biathlon 2006 – Go for Gold
    • Curling 2006
    • Biathlon Champion 2007
    • 3D Hunting 2010
Jun 2002 - Dec 2004
2 years 7 months

3D/2D Artist, Animator

Illusion Softworks

  • Modelling, texturing, rigging, and animation characters for a video game
  • Modelling and texturing buildings for a video game
  • Finished project: Circus Grande (in the US as Circus Empire)
Feb 2002 - May 2002
4 months

3D Artist

Black Element Software

  • Modelling and mapping environment for video game
  • Finished project: Shade: Wrath of Angels
Sep 2000 - Jul 2001
11 months

3D Artist

Charmed.com Inc

  • Modelling, texturing, and objects for multimedia and advertisement.
  • Finished project: Duran Duran Augmented Reality Live Performance Project.

Summary

Experienced Product Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. My skills include UX analyses, Wireframing, Interaction Design, Prototyping and User Testing, User Interface Design and CGI Animation. Prior to Vacuumlabs, I worked in Globallogic and Ixonos as a senior UX Designer for a diverse set of clients including The Economist, AT&T, Nokia, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, MBC, Reliance, ESPN, and RedBull.

Languages

Slovak
Native
Czech
Advanced
English
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

Oct 1995 - Jun 1999

Gymnazium of St.Francis from Assisi

High school graduate

Oct 1996 - Jun 1998

School of Art - Levoca

Fine Art

Certifications & licenses

Design Kit: The Course for Human- Centered Design