Alex de Slavuta

I had the privilege of working on Trela, a solution developed by Intersec to alert and protect people at risk (fire, flooding, pollution etc). It consists of a back-office, a mobile app and a public website.

As the sole UX/UI Designer on the Trela project, I played a key role in designing the user interface for all three parts, ensuring that it was intuitive, accessible, and aesthetically pleasing. In the context of public warning systems, information had to be extremely clear.

Trela has been showcased on multiple trade shows around public safety, to high praise.

This is a design and development project I did for a retail client. They are a renovation expert with more than 15 years of experience. They self-describe as "tech-illiterate" but looking to have some online presence nonetheless. I've made a simple website that presents them, their work, their price-list and reviews of the past clients in a clear manner. Conceived mobile-first, the website was also built to load fast, even on Ukrainian 3G/4G networks and old smartphones.

I also did all the back-end for this website using mostly No-Code tools. It was a fun learning experience.

This is my biggest project to date: a website for a training centre (it's like a school for adults where you can learn certain skills such as using Excel, Illustrator or mind-mapping). I was tasked with redesigning it. It was an A to Z design project: research, hierarchy planning, wireframing, prototyping, user-testing, iterating. It has quite a few pages — go take a look.

Even though it was not planned in the beginning, I ended up being the main developer, but that's a story for another time. This project allowed me to stay with the company after the end of my internship, which was followed by a professionalisation contract and then by a permanent one.

This is a project I did in my first ever hackathon in my school, Digital Campus. The government had recently made some reforms in their adult education system. They were thus looking to make a new app that would help people find a school that would suit them. We, the students in groups of 4, were to design this new app, and also come up with a marketing strategy for it. In my group, I was the only designer.

We ended up being the runners-up. However, one of the jury members really liked my designs and offered me an internship at her company. That, in turn, has led to my first ever permanent contract.

This is from a prototype for an app I made in my final year in Digital Campus. It was a part of our final graduation project. The idea was to create a startup, and the final presentation was like a pitch to investors.

Here’s my "startup" idea in a nutshell: it was an app that targeted foreign tourists in France. It would enable them to better understand menus in restaurants by scanning them with the smartphone camera and providing some extra information. This would allow people, instead of choosing something "safe" they were already familiar with, to try something new. Hence the name, EatsNew.

My presentation scored me a job interview from one of the external jury members, for the second time in my school years.