I am a passionate and versatile designer living in Finland with a set of skills in user experience, visual and interface design. My design journey began 18 years ago with small local websites and ad creatives in my hometown. For the past five years, I have been part of WithSecure Corporation as a UX, UI, and graphic designer.
Work Experience
Jan 2024 – Present
Graphic Designer, WithSecure Corporation (Product Marketing team)
WithSecure™ offers proactive cyber security solutions for businesses.
Responsibilities:
Design marketing collaterals for Sales: presentations, brochures, flyers, etc.
Transforming complex cybersecurity tech topics into clear infographics, schemes, and illustrations.Provide design support for events (e.g., annual cyber security conference SPHERE).
Execute brand strategy and ensure brand consistency across all designed materials.
Assist with graphic assets for website and landing page designs.
Nov 2018 – Dec 2023
UX Visual Designer, WithSecure Corporation (Product Design team)
Responsibilities:
UI and UX design for the flagship software product for businesses: WithSecure Elements Security Center.
Manage design system inventory, development, and support. Founding and regularly updating of the UI kit (Figma, previously Adobe XD) for complex business security products.
Ownership of icons library.
Visual design control: transform low-fidelity concepts into high-fidelity designs and provide consultation.
Implementation control through continuous iterative collaboration with developers.
Developing component descriptions and UX patterns, maintaining documentation.
Design UX and UI for the Cloud Protection for Salesforce product within the Salesforce Lightning Design System.
Execute rebrandings: preparing graphic assets for UI and colors mappings.
2014 – 2016 — Product designer, Gdeetotdom.ru. GdeEtotDom is a digital platform that helps real estate marketers & owners by offering home and apartment rental and purchase solutions. I oversaw the product's UX and UI, guidelines support, landing pages, illustrations, print materials, emails design, presentations for marketing, animated and static web banners.
2013 – 2014 — UI/UX, visual designer, Cold Brain. The web-development studio was founded by my partner and me. Our team made promo sites, online shops, company sites, interfaces, illustrations, packages, print materials, banner ads, and other digital and visual products. I hired and supervised junior designers. Besides, several times we participated in games hackathons as a team.
2011 – present — Illustrator, image Stock Contributor. Between 2011-2015 I have built my portfolio at Shutterstock with more than 2000 images and so far it has almost 30 000 licensed downloads around a globe.
2011 – 2013 — a freelancer. Worked remotely as a contractor with digital agencies from Moscow and Sankt-Petersburg.
2010 – 2011 — a visual designer at budetsdelano.ru (design agency). Worked on sites, interfaces, company styles, illustrations, printed materials, and packages.
Education
2006 – 2011
The Omsk State Pedagogical University
Bachelor of Arts, Qualified Diploma: An Art Teacher.
Thesis: Methodologies for Teaching the Basics of Fine Arts Using Computer Graphics Technologies in the System of Additional Education
Skills
UX and UI design, visual design (print & digital), iconography, illustration, animation
Tools
Adobe CC (XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Animate), Figma
Basic level: HTML, CSS
Courses
2020 — Suomen kieli, B2.1-B2.2, Aalto Open University
2020 — HTML 5.0 + CSS laajat perusteet, Helsingin työväenopisto
2019 — Basics of Service Design, Aalto Open University
Feb 2018 – Jan 2019 — Intensive Finnish Integration course, Arffman kielikoulu
2014 – 2015 — Artem Gorbunov Design Bureau course. The course content: interface design and structuring information, typography and layout, project management, communication and collaboration, texting and editing, law regulations for designers. Certificate (in Russian).
Languages
Russian, native speaker
English, professional
Finnish, B2.1 (Itsenäisen kielitaidon perustaso)
Links
Portfolio on Shutterstock
My stock illustrations in use (Pinterest channel)
www.dribbble.com/Nina_Susik
Contacts
nina.susik@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/nina.susik
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