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.
  • Overseeing the design system.
  • 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.

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

Figma, Adobe Illustrator, ProductBoard, Amplitude, Condens, LLMs.

Languages

Slovak (native) · English (C1)

Interests

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