Curriculum Vitae
Balint Jakab
Staff Product Designer & Mentor
I am a Staff Product Designer and mentor, currently shaping ESG solutions at Diligent Corporation. With nearly a decade of experience, I’ve worked across diverse domains, including government projects in transportation and healthcare, B2B2C e-commerce, warehouse management, and server monitoring. My expertise lies in crafting intuitive, impactful experiences that drive business and user success.
WORK EXPERIENCE
MAY 2024 – PRESENT
Diligent Governance Hungary Kft. - Staff Product Designer & Mentor
- Designing Diligent’s ESG products
- Carbon accounting system (brownfield project)
- Targeting and scenario planning tool (greenfield project)
- Supporting the ESG team’s design operations to ensure effective project execution
- Internship mentoring by providing guidance on design skills and fostering our intern’s professional growth
- Advocating for collaborative best practices to improve cross-functional teamwork
- Helping refine the company’s design workflow for increased efficiency and consistency
NOVEMBER 2019 – MAY 2024
i-Cell Mobilsoft Zrt. - Lead / Sr. Product Designer
- Designing a nursing activity management system for the Hungarian National Healthcare Service
- Designing the mobile app of the Hungarian National Electronic Ticketing Platform
- Designing a content management system for GOV related clients
- Managing web accessibility fixes of GOV projects
- Designing the company’s own parking app
- Co-building a design team from 3 to 10 employees in 2,5 years
- Hiring candidates
- Co-organizing an internship, and mentoring interns
- Supervising junior designers
- Educating employees about design with particular emphasis on accessibility
- Task management and delegation
Bárdi Auto Zrt. - Budapest — Mid. UX/UI Designer
- Designing the software of a customer service kiosk that is used in retail stores
- Designing several features for the company’s webshop in an agile environment
- Designing modules for the company’s web based ERP system
- Designing workflow instructions in the company’s warehouse for pickers
- Establishing the design infrastructure from scratch as the companies first ever UX/UI designer
- Educating developers and analysts about design thinking
- Conducting research such as interviewing, usability testing
Pocket Games - Budapest — UX/UI Designer and GFX Designer
- Designing a web based render farm monitoring tool (for an early stage start-up)
- Designing a dating app (for an early stage start-up)
- Designing 3D and 2D assets for games
- Building the company’s website in WIX
- Writing functional specifications
- Manual software testing and test case writing
- Task management in Jira
MITO Social Kft. - Budapest — Jr. Technical Project Manager
- HIFI Prototyping the user interface of the OTP mobile banking application in Axure RP
- Writing functional specifications of the company’s internally developed ERP system
- Manual software testing and test case writing
- Research + Wireframing and UI design for the company’s internally developed ERP system
- Site build (Html, css, and javascript basics)
- Resource allocation and project management
- Task management in Jira
Freelancer - London — UX/UI and GFX Designer
I worked on several hobby projects in the past. My UX career began in 2015 when my brother who is an iOS developer sent me a couple of wireframes about one of his hobby projects. He knew that I was familiar with photoshop at the time, and he naturally involved me into his project called WatsDat, which was a quiz game. Working on passion projects made me aware of that all I ever wanted to do was design. At that time I lived in London, and as I dug deep into know hows, I took some freelancing graphic design projects.
EDUCATION
MOME IxD – Budapest — Service Design Expert
MOME ID – Budapest — Product Designer
Lukács Sándor SZKI. – Győr — CNC Machinist
Forrás Waldorf High School – Győr — 5GCSE
I ALSO learned a lot from Youtube and Udemy..
LANGUAGE
English — Full professional proficiency
Hungarian — Native language
COMPETENCES
Research
Interview with stakeholders and end users, qualitative and quantitative reasearch, usability testing, and assessing findings
UX Design
Information architecture, wireframing, journey mapping, competitor analysis, design patterns and best practicies
Visual and interaction design
UI design, illustrations, high-fidelity prototyping, responsive design, Material Design and Human Interface Guidelines
Accessibility
Ability to design semantically accurate layout structures, that are following the rules of Web Content Ability Guideline
Documentation & review
Project documentation, note taking best practicies, follow-up, design review, and workflow based task management
Leadership
Strategic thinking, resource management, task delegation, mentoring, business knowledge, educating other competences about design