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20+ years of product design craft, now AI-native.

Senior Product Designer with 20+ years across fintech, gaming, and AI-first startups. Sole designer at Ryze Beyond through two multi-year stretches — the AI-augmented workflow lets a single senior handle what used to take a full team.

How this site was built

This portfolio was designed and shipped in about two weeks of evening sessions, in pair with Claude — Anthropic's AI. Design decisions, copy, and code all came out of the same conversation. A live demonstration of the workflow the rest of this site is about.

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Experience

2019 — 2026

Product UI/AI/UX Designer · Ryze Beyond (formerly TrafficPoint)

  • Scaled design as the company grew 32 → 110+ employees
  • Shipped Sonary Software Stack Manager — dashboards, AI recommendation flows, chatbot UX
  • Sole designer on every company website and product throughout — the design team varied from 1 to 4 people, with the other designers covering social media rather than product
  • Worked alongside talented designers in the larger-team periods, sharing knowledge in both directions. I tended to handle the more complex system specs given my years in the craft
  • Architected reusable Figma component systems — variants, auto-layout, nested and interactive components
  • Multiple design systems and icon sets across several product verticals, accessibility-conscious
  • User research, usability testing, A/B testing, personas, journey mapping — grounded decisions in real behavior
  • Motion and visual craft — SVG micro-interactions and loaders, UI animation, brand logos and marks, 3D concept explorations, and short-form video creation for product and marketing
  • AI in daily practice: Claude and ChatGPT for concepting and iteration, Midjourney / Leonardo / Figma AI for visual assets

2018 — 2019

Senior UI/UX Designer · Smart.bid (LoanMax Team)

  • Led UI/UX for the LoanMax brand and its sub-brands across all platforms
  • Rebranded the website, mobile web, and payment application end-to-end
  • Built a financial portal from scratch — wireframes, UX flows, UI design, and hand-off specs
  • Produced design materials for landing pages, blogs, marketing sites, and social
  • Created high-impact visual design assets and reusable design solutions across the team

2017 — 2018

UI/UX Designer · Wochat

  • Live voice, text, and video translation messaging app — owned all design aspects (sketches, user flows, wireframes, specs) for the mobile app
  • Researched new features and ideas; owned Wochat brand identity from scratch
  • Specified and designed both mobile and desktop sites; built page templates in HTML5 / CSS3
  • Designed landing pages, marketing banners, and micro-animations
  • Wrote video scenarios and handled the post-production compositing

2015 — 2017

UI/UX Designer · Gamingtech

  • Sports betting and casino gaming products — sketches, wireframes, and full UI design for mobile and web
  • Owned branding, specification, and design for the 10Bet, Real Deal Bet, and Bet Rally brands
  • Designed responsive landing pages, product surfaces, and applications
  • Produced marketing banners and interactive calendars, including animated interactive banners built in HTML5 / CSS3

2013 — 2015

Interactive Art Designer · Mench — Qdigital

  • Digital advertising agency — designed campaigns and interactive experiences for major Israeli brands including Bank Discount, Coca-Cola, and Laline
  • Rich media banners, campaign microsites, and landing pages across Flash and HTML5 / CSS3
  • Owned art direction on multi-client briefs, from concept through delivery

2011 — 2013

Interactive Art Designer · IGMD Affeurope — Tradologic

  • White-label platform provider for online casino and binary options operators — designed operator-facing interfaces and player-facing UI
  • Trading widgets, casino lobbies, gaming HUDs, and promotional landing pages
  • Delivered animated marketing assets in Flash / HTML5 for multi-market rollouts

2006 — 2011

Interactive Art Designer · Arc Interactive (Publicis Group)

  • Digital advertising agency inside Publicis Group — designed campaigns for major brands including Bank Leumi, Afeka College of Engineering, and UMI Motors (Cadillac, Chevrolet)
  • Interactive rich media, campaign microsites, and animated banner ecosystems in Flash and HTML5
  • Contributed to team-designed campaigns awarded 12+ Cactus prizes (Or, Argent, Bronze) — Israel's top advertising awards — across five years at Arc Interactive, 2006–2011
  • Cross-discipline collaboration with creative directors, copywriters, developers, and account teams inside a full-service agency

2003 — 2005

Department Manager & Print Designer · Gestimo

  • First professional role — managed the in-house print and digital design department at an Israeli real-estate advertising firm
  • Directed print collateral (brochures, catalogs, ads) and early web campaigns; oversaw output quality across a small design team

Skills

UX methods & design

User ResearchUsability TestingA/B TestingPersonasJourney MappingCompetitive AnalysisWireframingPrototypingInformation ArchitectureInteraction DesignResponsive & Mobile-First DesignAccessibility (WCAG)Design Systems

Design tools

Figma (primary)PhotoshopIllustratorSketchAfter EffectsCinema 4DZBrush

AI tools

Claude (Code, Artifacts, Skills, Cowork)Claude ↔ VS Code integrationv0.dev by Vercel (learning)Framer AI (explored)AI AgentsChatGPTGeminiMidjourneyLeonardo AIAdobe FireflyFigma AIAdobe AI (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects)Runway · Sora · Kling (video gen)

Visual & motion

IconographyVector IllustrationSVG micro-interactions (SVGator)Adobe Animate (formerly Flash)CapCut

Code

HTML5CSS3 (Flexbox & Grid)JavaScript (learning)Python (learning)

Languages

  • FrenchNative
  • HebrewFluent
  • EnglishProfessional working proficiency

Awards & education

🏆 Cactus d'Or, d'Argent & de Bronze

Israel's top advertising awards, for Israeli campaigns. Team contributor on 12+ Cactus wins (Or, Argent, Bronze) over five years at Arc Interactive (Publicis Group), 2006–2011.

ORT Strasbourg (France)

Software Engineering School, 1994–1997 · Specification, design & programming of web applications

UI/UX Design Certification

Tal Florentin (Israel)

Self-taught, continuously — 20+ years

Hundreds of design courses over two decades: Udemy, YouTube, and community platforms (Le Site du Zéro → OpenClassrooms). I've always been driven to learn — new tools, new techniques, new craft — to stay current with the best tech and software in the design field.