Catherine Starobor-Strakhova
Full stack game UX/UI designer with strong visual development
Skills
Developing player experience
Working with game designers to create interesting features.
Creating user and screen flows
Usually in FigJam files. They are very useful for passing information about a feature from department to department. After all, they very clearly show how the player moves around the game, how screens and individual elements change.
Wireframes
Working on the functionality of the screens without working on the visual helps to focus on exactly how the player will interact with the game.
UI design
Elaboration of the appearance of screens based on wireframes. This allows you to make a beautiful visual without ruining the player experience. I not only assemble screens from ready-made assets, but also draw individual elements of the interface.
Interactive prototypes in Figma
A visual image of how the feature works with the ability to follow the user's path without assembling the feature in the game.
Feature preview video
Sometimes it is necessary to show interface effects, transitions between windows and more, and this is not always possible in prototypes. For this I use After Effects.
Jobs
[NDA]
since January 2023
This is my current place of work. I am UX designer: working on information architecture, userflows, wireframes and create simple UI drafts. The result is interactive prototypes to illustrate different scenarios.
This is my current place of work. I am UX designer: working on information architecture, userflows, wireframes and create simple UI drafts. The result is interactive prototypes to illustrate different scenarios.
Rognarocket
December 2022 - January 2023
I worked on features from start to finish: user flow, screens design, icons and interface elements, different screen states, documentation, assets and helping programmers and QA.
I worked on features from start to finish: user flow, screens design, icons and interface elements, different screen states, documentation, assets and helping programmers and QA.
Game Insight
October 2019 - December 2021
I worked on user experience, worked on window layouts, prepared documentation and typeset screens in the GI UIeditor. Gained experience in feature management, work on projects related to different genres.
I worked on user experience, worked on window layouts, prepared documentation and typeset screens in the GI UIeditor. Gained experience in feature management, work on projects related to different genres.
Crazy Panda
2018
Worked on the mobile game Pirate Tales. I designed the screens for new features, drew icons, improved existing screens.
Worked on the mobile game Pirate Tales. I designed the screens for new features, drew icons, improved existing screens.
Orion (Formerly Mera)
March 2015 - October 2019
I was engaged in the development of user experience and layouts for contact centers and video conferencing web applications. Also I worked on ensuring the accessibility of web applications, acted as the expert on the accessibility of mobile applications and websites.
I was engaged in the development of user experience and layouts for contact centers and video conferencing web applications. Also I worked on ensuring the accessibility of web applications, acted as the expert on the accessibility of mobile applications and websites.
Publications and speeches
Glafira Zhur and I are working on an accessible website live in 2022
Speech at the Nizhny Novgorod Administration, 2019
Orion (Formerly Mera) external meetup, 2019
Speech at the Nizhny Novgorod Administration, 2019
Speech at the Global City Hackathon 2019 in Nizhny Novgorod
It's about the work of interface designers in the development team
It's about the work of interface designers in the development team
Internal performance at Orion (Formerly Mera), 2017
Internal performance at Orion (Formerly Mera), 2016
Biography
I was born in Nizhny Novgorod. Since childhood, I have been fond of drawing, went to art school and art courses. After leaving school, I entered the university to study landscape architecture. This course was not chosen by chance, because here they study the artistic aspect, and biological, and engineering.
After graduating from university, I worked as a landscape designer, but later switched to media design and worked for 3 years on a TV channel creating video and audio content.
Interest in how a person receives and processes information led me to interface design. After working on B2B projects, I decided to move into game development. Here, the interface design can be critical: if the interface is uncomfortable, ugly, incomprehensible, then the player will leave. This challenge makes the work interesting and responsible.
After graduating from university, I worked as a landscape designer, but later switched to media design and worked for 3 years on a TV channel creating video and audio content.
Interest in how a person receives and processes information led me to interface design. After working on B2B projects, I decided to move into game development. Here, the interface design can be critical: if the interface is uncomfortable, ugly, incomprehensible, then the player will leave. This challenge makes the work interesting and responsible.