Pavol Donko

Senior Product Designer

ux@pavoldonko.com  ·  +420 774 066 031  ·  Brno, Czech Republic

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Experience

2023–present

Senior Product Designer – Kontent.ai, Brno

  • Improving the product from start to finish.
  • Shipping small front-end fixes and UX improvements directly to the production React codebase using Claude Code.
  • Overseeing the design system – creating and evolving components in both Figma and the React codebase, design token changes in code, maintaining the documentation.
  • Building coded prototypes for usability testing and rapid design iteration.
  • Accessibility advocate.
2015–2023

Lead UX Designer – Kentico, Brno

  • Product: Kentico Kontent (now Kontent.ai).
  • Focused on solving user problems, enhancing the design system, and advocating for inclusive products.
  • Led a comprehensive product redesign – directly responsible for product consistency, design system, and overall UX. Collaborated with designers, researchers, and developers.
2013–2015

UX Designer – Mavenir, Brno

  • Various telecom dashboards.
  • Solo UX team – responsible for the whole design process.
  • UX research, design, and evaluation.
2011–2013

UX & UI Designer, Co-founder – Celebrio, Brno

  • OS for elderly people – co-founded during studies.
  • Led a team of five designers.
  • Full process: surveys, qualitative interviews, personas, paper prototyping, usability testing, heuristic evaluation.

Personal projects

2025–present

Personal software projects

  • Universal Apple app (iOS, iPadOS, macOS) for file-based task management – tasks stored as plain YAML/Markdown files with iCloud Drive sync, interoperable with Obsidian. Designed and built end-to-end in Swift with Claude Code.
  • This portfolio website – built with Astro and Tailwind, deployed on Cloudflare Pages.

Teaching & mentoring

2018

Tutor and Mentor – Comprehensive UX Course, Czechitas, Brno

Eight-week course covering design principles and usability testing.

2014

Tutor – Practical UX Course, Masaryk University, Brno

Two-day intensive covering the full UX design process.

2010–2017

Seminar Tutor – HCI Laboratory, Masaryk University, Brno

Laboratory lectures and practical exercises focused on UX Design and HCI.

Education

2015

Master in Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno

Field of study: Service Science, Management and Engineering.

2012

Bachelor in Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno

Field of study: Applied Informatics.

Skills & tools

Claude Code, Figma, Amplitude, Gong, ClosedLoop, Adobe Illustrator.

Languages

Slovak (native) · English (C1)

Interests

Snowboarding, rucking, sauna, cold bathing, photography, everything Italian, zettelkasten.