Alek Manov

Digital Product Design, UI/UX and Design Systems

Athens, Greece (+02:00 UTC) English, Bulgarianfrom Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria
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Alek clearly knows what he's doing. He's been very generous with his time and to-the-point insights on SaaS UX design. He saw instantly what took us and other experts months to figure out. I particularly appreciated his honesty that has always been tainted with encouragement and benevolence during our discussion. I can only recommend him warmly!

Sophia Benhaddou

I wanted to take a moment to extend my gratitude for your invaluable input regarding our landing page, especially the 'above the fold' section. Your expert insights and actionable recommendations have been instrumental in helping us identify and address areas that needed optimization. We are now more equipped to make the necessary changes that will enhance our conversion rates. It's been reassuring to know we had someone with your expertise guiding us in the right direction. Our team feels more confident about the steps we're taking, all thanks to your assistance. I genuinely appreciate the time, effort, and expertise you shared with us. Your contributions have been pivotal, and I look forward to seeing the positive impact they'll have on our landing page's performance.

Hamel Shah

I am immensely grateful for the invaluable mentorship and support received during the design and development of my startup. Your keen insights and guidance not only enriched the design process but also provided the mental fortitude needed during the journey.

Martin Tobala

Bio

I am passionate in user psychology and product design. The challenge is to understand and find out if your idea is worth the time and how that product will best fit your potential customers. The design field is so dynamic nowadays and the consumer behaviour changes every 6 months. Gone are the days of curiosity and long attention spans. Today is more difficult than ever to bring attention to your product and attract new customers. There are two aspects that make or break the deal - entertainment and exact solution to our problem. Let's be honest, we don't have time to keep up with the vast information and products out there. And yet we always force ourselves to check one more thing before going to bed. That means if your product doesn't offer a painkiller to my problem and if your process of using it doesn't entertain me, I will be gone in less than 3 seconds. That's how much time you have to make your offer to the user. And that's just the beginning. You need to create a long lasting commitment otherwise your product is doomed. My goal is to create clean and unique visual communication that suits and elevates the purpose of the project. Defining what's your value proposition, what makes you different and present this to your customers in a simple, innovative and engaging way that will lead to increased brand recognition and improved market value of your products.

Expertise


  • Customer success

    Onboarding, nurturing workflows, reducing churn rate are just a few of the steps of the customer's cycle that create or break the emotional attachment to your brand or product.

  • Design / UX

    Even the best idea will fail if you can't present your product and engage your audience. With a background in coding and logical problem solving, my passion is to create meaningful and usable design systems that elevate the product value proposition. I can help you with: • Design and UX Audit • Product Evaluation Strategy • How to implement a UI/UX system within budget constraints? • What to consider when evaluating a business opportunity? • How to approach a site/app redesign?

  • Product market fit

    Your idea needs validation. You can't spend money before being sure that there is market potential with a big-enough audience to sustain your product growth. Who are the competitors? How are you different and where you need to shift your value proposition? Are you too niche or too broad?

  • Venting frustration

    We often overthink and that makes our mind blurred by the end of the day. And when you are doing the same day after day, you burn out. Finding the balance between the work you do and the life you have sounds simple but is not easy. It requires the development of new habits that will increase focus, inner peace, energy, and self-motivation. Talking about your struggles is the first step to self-admit there is a problem.

Toolkit


  • Figma logo

    Figma

    8 years of experience

    Figma became the top design software choice that dominates the industry for a reason. Easy collaboration, fast and reliable workflow, powerful features. It completely skyrocketed my design work, with the use of reusable components, variables, design libraries and endless community support and never worry about performance. New to Figma and how it can benefit your project, lets talk!

  • Linear logo

    Linear

    9 years of experience

    Linear is very user oriented app for software project management. It's the top in my list when it comes to organising projects on SaaS products with different clients and keep a transparent process. If you are looking for a PM App for your work, I can give you a hand with setting up Linear as your management space.

  • Miro logo

    Miro

    7 years of experience

    Multiple implementations tool. Team brainstorm sessions, quick meeting notes, business flows, user journey maps, you name it. Definitely has a place in your toolbox.

Industries


  • SaaS

    How to onboard your new users? What data to collect and where is the right place to ask questions? How to make sure you don't overload your interface and provide a clear ux flow for each persona? A SaaS product has its complexity and require more specific approach in order to build a proper working funnel and improved UX.

  • Web Hosting

    I have work over 4 years as a lead designer in a web hosting company. With over 500+ design iterations on UX flows, sub brands designs, campaign builders and product packaging, I got a solid understanding of the market and the user motivation in otherwise boring marketing space.

  • Health Care

    I spend 3 years on health care related project as part of the digital team for the top health care provider in Italy. My work involved education, on site experience, service design, web and mobile redesigns on more then 10+ projects with complex information architecture.

  • E-Commerce

    Building or maintaining a design for e-commerce may look simple but its actually tricky to find the right approach and balance to sell you product/s. It's a challenge to set a good visual tone and organise the vast information in ease to consume content, and make the user buy. I can help with UI/UX audit on your home or item page, spot and suggest improvements that can elevate the user experience and increase TOS and CR.

  • Mobile Apps

    Let's audit your applications, does it follow the appropriate user guidelines? How to fit your web experience into the small screen of a phone? Are you building something for iOS or Android, what are the constrains and how to organize my development?

  • UX Design

    Before jumping to design and product, we need to understand the implications of the product we offer in order to fill a market gap, a pain in the user experience. We need a proper user experience map or a Journey Map. Why someone would use your product? How he would use it? What's is the motivation behind? Understand your target audience and aline the product with it. Then you can move to design.

  • Product Design

    You have an idea, you have spotted an opportunity in the market, there is a pain and nowhere to be seen a real unified solution that owns that space. You need to build a product/solution around that pain, a pain killer. Where to start? What is the process form ideation to first MVP market launch? How to budget the time and money? There are so many questions and step to take, it could be overwhelming and frustrating. It's not just a design, it's more wider picture that you need to consider.

  • Web Design

    I've doing web design for 10+ years now. There is probably nothing that I have not tried, designed or experiment with. As part of my career, I have to keep an eye on trends, tools, market shift, user behaviour evolution and apply that to every single new project within its own constrains. There is nothing more motivating for me to start by opening the blank canvas, and hit the challenge.

Experience

  • Mag Vision Ltd

    Owner

    Running my own studio for Design and UX. I help business develop and grow their online presence. My work involves UI/UX audits, redesigns and rebranding, product design and market fit analysis. I have build solutions for companies in Health Care, SaaS, PaaS, E-Commerce, B2C, B2B, Web Hosting.

    B2BB2CUX DesignWeb designProduct DesignProduct ResearchPhotography
  • Growthmentor

    Product Design
    growthmentor.com

    Product Market Fit, Product Design, Design System and Interface

  • Humanitas Group

    Senior Product Designer

    As a part of Humanitas Digital Team, I was involved in improving UI/UX design development across various products related to online customer experience.

    B2CHealth Care
  • EuroVPS

    Product Design
    eurovps.com

    My responsibilities were: • Establish company identity and branding evolution • Consistently identify user profiles and changing behavior patterns • Testing and creating new UX flow and UI optimization • Optimizing company service design and promoting healthier inner culture • Creating and optimizing user onboarding and customer success sequences • Analyzing market opportunities and proposing further product innovations • Promoting and establishing lean project management methodology

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