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Dinuka Lankaloka

Product Designer

Helsinki, Finland

[email protected]

I am a Product Designer who delights in the challenge of introducing intuitive simplicity to complex problems. I have particular strengths in designing data-driven, multi-platform, enterprise-level applications from scratch.

Having worked directly with business owners, I fully understand the role of exceptional interfaces in shaping brand values and I bring that appreciation of business needs into my design work. My experiences in startup environments have not only fuelled my passion for design innovation, but also for being a positive stimulus in a team culture.

 

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Employment

Senior Product Designer • Brella
Feb 2024 - Present

Driving the overall design direction of the product, ensuring that we're always moving forward with innovative and user-friendly designs. With my experience, I aim to foster best practices within our design team, sharing knowledge and collaborating closely with my colleagues. Recently, I've been working on creating a new design system for Brella from scratch.

Product Designer • Brella
Dec 2021 - Feb 2024

I joined a design team of four and took on the responsibility of our networking features. I introduced network gating, now a staple of Brella's toolkit, and revamped our matchmaking experience, giving it a sleek, modern makeover while enhancing the user experience with our proprietary AI algorithm. Over time, my role expanded to include managing sponsors and the overall event organiser experience.
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UI & UX Designer • Trabeya
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021

Trabeya is an advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) products and services start up serving a global customer base. Started as the company’s solo UI & UX Designer, I then built and led a team of UI & UX designers. My key responsibilities included designing and creating the total user experience of the company’s flagship product, Springboard and seven (07) different AI apps, as well as overseeing the work of my team. Enabling easy and rapid comprehension of an array of data points through aesthetic synthesis was crucial to the company’s mission.
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UI & UX Designer • Affno Virtual Market
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021

Affno Virtual Market is a company established to reimagine the process of procurement. I served as the UI & UX Designer for the company’s flagship product Green Tape, a business-to-business online procurement solution. Developing user journeys, wireframes, prototypes and designing the overall user interfaces according to modern UX principles were my key aims, alongside introducing intuitive simplicity to an otherwise complex product. I worked closely with senior management to understand the business goals and ensure these were supported by intelligent design.
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UI/UX Designer & Frontend Developer • TWC Innovations
Dec 2013 - Sep 2019

TWC Innovations is a young start up focused on industrial applications and blockchain research and development. At TWC I designed over 25 websites ranging from corporate to products, services, government, charity and entertainment. I also designed, lead and shipped enterprise mobile applications, websites and SaaS solutions including an e-commerce platform, and created a diverse array of social media marketing materials. In supporting a wide range of industries, I combined universal design principles with industry-specific insights to support each organisation’s objectives.
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Tools & Strengths

  • Leadership
  • Design systems
  • Research
  • Accessibility
  • Problem solving
  • Critical thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Presentation
  • Public speaking
  • Figma
  • Adobe XD
  • Sketch
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InVision
  • Origami Studio
  • Zeplin
  • HTML
  • CSS

Education

University College Dublin
BSc in Computer Science

I graduated from University College Dublin with Second Class Honours. My undergraduate subjects included Algorithmic Problem-Solving, Matrix Algebra, Digital Systems and Data Structures. For the final project, I designed and created user interfaces for a Smart Home automation IoT application which allows the user to control lamps, ventilation and windows using an Android application.