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My name is Miklos "Miki" Barton. I'm a Hungarian designer residing and working in Zürich, Switzerland. Over the past 20 years, I have collaborated with non-profit organizations, startups, design agencies, and corporate companies throughout Europe and the US, contributing to the development of products that are used by millions on a daily basis.

Having begun my career as a developer, my approach has always been grounded in solving tangible problems with real data. Rather than focusing solely on speculative design concepts, I prioritize practical problem-solving. As a versatile designer, I enjoy challenging myself across various aspects of the design process, including user research and testing, prototyping, a touch of coding, and, of course, visual design.

When I'm not in front of a screen, I strive to spend quality time with my daughter and taking long walks with my dog.


Experience

2023 – 2024

Care

Senior UX Designer - Winterthur, Switzerland

As the lead designer, I was responsible for creating completely new or improving existing user journeys for the web and the app. I also optimised and maintained the company's design system to have a consistent look across all platforms. Noteworthy feautures I designed was the Add-ons and the AI driven Virtual Health Coach.

Health & FitnessSaaSB2CB2BAIWeb DesignMobile & Web Application

2022 – 2023

Campus

Senior UX Designer - New York, USA

Campus.edu is an online community college based in New York. In addition to creating and maintaining the design system, I developed both front-end and back-end solutions for features such as Class Feed, Chatrooms, Live Sessions, and Assignments within their online communication tool, Campuswire.com.

EducationSaaSB2CWeb Application

2021 – 2022

Streamlayer

Senior UX Designer - Chicago, USA

Streamlayer.io Chicago-based startup offers an interactive experience for OTT providers. I designed several features for their mobile application, such as messaging, Twitter integration, betting functionality, interactive polls, and created backend solutions for the mentioned services.

SportsSaaSB2BB2CWeb ApplicationMobile App

2019 – 2020

Credit Suisse

Senior UI Designer - Zürich, Switzerland

Credit Suisse is one of the biggest banks in Switzerland. As a designer, I was responsible for:

  • Maintaining and updating the company's digital design system
  • Redesigned company's website main navigation
  • Update and create new components for the website
  • Write and update documentation for components and keep in touch with the dev team on a daily basis
  • Create concepts for new businesses

FinanceDesign SystemWeb Design

2018 – 2019

Bity

Senior UI Designer - Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Bity is a web based cryptocurrency exchange platform, operated in Switzerland. Some of my key responsibilities were:

  • Create pixel perfect designs based on high-fidelity wireframes
  • Create user flows, low and high-fidelity prototypes for a stealth-mode project
  • Redesign the company’s website
  • Design marketing materials for internal and external usage
  • Deliver guidelines and assets for the product engineering team

FinanceDesign SystemWeb Design

2016 – 2018

Fantasy

Senior UI Designer - San Francisco, USA

Fantasy is a multi-winning award (200+) agency bringing innovative solutions for companies like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Spotify or Huawei. I worked on the design of Royal Caribbean, UFC, UFCPass, and IMG's admin system at the time. Some of my key responsibilities were:

  • Create stunning visuals for different platforms based on low-fidelity wireframes
  • Create clean and consistent UI libraries for digital products
  • Create and communicate motion ideas via interactive prototypes
  • Work closely together with the UX team

SportsDesign SystemWeb DesignMobile App Design

2014 – 2016

Knip

Creative Director - Zürich, Switzerland

Knip was an award winning, mobile one-stop solution for users to help managing and optimising their insurance policies. Some of my key responsibilities were:

  • Create and maintain the visual language of the company across all platforms
  • Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards (ATL, BTL)
  • Translated business requirements and customer insights into well-designed interfaces
  • Create user flows, wireframes, low and high-fidelity prototypes
  • Create and maintain the UI library
  • Work closely with product engineering and business teams

FinanceDesign SystemWeb DesignMobile App Design

2013 – 2014

Centralway

Senior Designer - Zürich, Switzerland

Centralway’s Numbrs was a #1 multi-banking mobile app on the German App Store with more than 700.000 downloads in the first 8 months.

FinanceWeb DesignMobile App Design

2011 – 2013

Mito

Digital Art Director - Budapest, Hungary

Mito is a Budapest-based, multi-award winning design agency. I defined visual languages and designed pixel-perfect solutions of websites, mobile and social applications for Vodafone, McDonald’s, WizzAir Airline. Also, provided guidelines and assets for the engineering teams.

2008 – 2010

Neo Interactive

Senior Designer - Budapest, Hungary

Neo is a Budapest-based, multi-award winning design agency. I designed and developed interactive flash websites, micro-sites, interactive digital marketing advertisements (banners, newsletters) for Coca-Cola, Betsson, HBO.

2005 – 2008

Cafe Interactive

Senior Designer - Budapest, Hungary

Cafe is a Budapest-based, multi-award winning design agency. I designed and developed interactive flash websites, micro-sites, interactive digital marketing advertisements (banners, newsletters) for BMW, MINI, Unilever, OTP Bank, Ferrero.

2004 – 2005

Directinfo

Software Developer - Budapest, Hungary

Directinfo is a small agency, based in Budapest. I executed front-end and back-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, XML, and MySQL.

Certifications

Design skills

  • User Research
  • Usability Test
  • Interaction Design
  • Prototyping
  • User Interface Design
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Documentation

 

Tech skills

  • Figma, Adobe CC Suite
  • ProtoPie, Principle
  • HTML/CSS/JS/JQuery
  • Webflow
  • NextJS, TailwindCSS
  • PHP, SQL
  • XCode, Swift
  • Google Analytics, HotJar

 

Soft skills

  • Attention to details
  • Critical thinking
  • Empathic
  • Pragmatic
  • Communicative
  • Collaborative
  • Problem-solver