Why do I want to join TopTal and its UI designers community?
Well, I’ve worked as a Graphics designer for the last 10 years. I started my career as a freelance designer in the small town in Eastern part of the Czech Republic. I helped small agencies boost their teams and delivered simple and functional designs as well as great ideas and solutions for small business problems. My first big client was a Chinese company PhonoSolar. For the photovoltaic giant, I designed either their website but also materials and post for their social marketing.
When I started studying on SKODA-AUTO University (Volkswagen Group) I took a chance for the internship in many concern brands. I spent several months in research team in SKODA AUTO designing interfaces for gate clusters and instruments. I visited marketing department in Bentley or Audi or worked as a marketing assistant back in SKODA AUTO — where I helped with market launch two important models — SKODA RAPID Spaceback and SKODA Superb.
Because of the internship wasn’t the full-time job and my Bachelor was distance study I still had a time for my freelance. In 2009 I joined the small company called Blueberry. I’ve worked with them more than 7 years and helped to built and established a strong design-driven company with more than 100 employees and global projects across industries. In January 2017 Blueberry won a contract for company Neoris. Under Neoris we worked on digital transformation project for Cemex with general support of IBM iX teams from Chicago and Houston. Me, as a designer, I led a small team of 5 people from both Prague and Monterrey to deliver four apps — first for quotations, second for order taking and last two for delivery schedule and jobsite overview (iOS app).
It was the amazing journey full of great experience and furthermore … of the great leadership of Corey Bernardo, former HP Vice President for Global Experience Design or Senior Director of User Experience Desing & User Research from PayPal.
I believe I have a strong background, head full of ideas and heart full of passion and enthusiasm….so Why do I want to join TopTal and UI designers Community?
TopTal is unique place on Earth. There are top 3% of freelance talent all over the world. Man! That’s something. 3% of true experts with boundless love for things they do. And Yeah … they can do it for companies like Google, JP Morgan, Zendesk, Airbnb …. if you’re a junior designer, this is your wet dream right?
…..but the most important motivation to join UI designers Community is “to learn”. I love learning new things. I believe that every experience even bad one is stepping forward. You as a designer … you have to teach your client to understand his customers and users … but also you have to listen and learn from a client. Well…and as I said in the previous paragraph, TopTal equals top 3% experts and top clients … and that’s the best school you can find.
