Francesco De Mento

Francesco De Mento

Digital Product Designer
Via Oreste Pennati, 10/A, 20900, Monza, Italy.

About

Highly accomplished Digital Product Designer with a robust background in user-centered design, research, and full-stack development. Expert in transforming complex user needs into intuitive, efficient, and scalable digital solutions, demonstrated by enhancing experiences for over 30,000 users and connecting 8,000+ community members. Proven ability to drive product innovation, streamline processes, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver high-impact features and platforms across diverse industries, leveraging expertise in UI/UX, prototyping, and modern web technologies.

Work

Cosmico
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Multidisciplinary Designer

Remote, Italy, Italy

Summary

Currently leading user-centered design and prototyping initiatives to develop and enhance digital products, ensuring seamless and intuitive user experiences for diverse clients.

Highlights

Led comprehensive user-centered design initiatives, facilitating brainstorming sessions and workshops to align customer and product team needs with strategic opportunities.

Collaborated directly with diverse stakeholders to define, conceptualize, and prototype new features, ensuring alignment with business goals and user requirements.

Designed and iterated on digital products and services, focusing on enhancing the core reference service and delivering seamless, intuitive user experiences.

Applied a multidisciplinary design approach to translate complex requirements into actionable design solutions, contributing to impactful product development.

Nibol
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Digital Product Designer

Remote, Italy, Italy

Summary

Designed and optimized office management experiences for a Europe-wide smart worker application, driving efficiency and accessibility through user-centric feature development.

Highlights

Conducted in-depth user research and designed critical features for the Nibol App, significantly enhancing office management experiences for smart workers across Europe.

Ensured a seamless and intuitive workflow from ideation to handoff, collaborating closely with developers to transform concepts into a high-utility application.

Optimized the app's usability and accessibility, positioning it as an essential tool for efficient and modern workplace management.

Implemented user-centric design principles to improve overall platform efficiency and user satisfaction, contributing to a better daily experience for a broad user base.

Talent Garden
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Digital Product Designer

Remote, Italy, Italy

Summary

Drove design and research for a community platform connecting over 8,000 users and developed a new educational platform for courses and master programs.

Highlights

Led research and design efforts for 'Sphere by Talent Garden,' the inaugural community platform, successfully connecting over 8,000 users, including students and professionals.

Designed and developed a new educational platform for 'Design School,' enhancing access to lessons and learning materials for various courses and master programs.

Established a distinctive visual and communication language for the Design School's online presence, strengthening brand identity and user engagement.

Contributed to strategic digital initiatives by ensuring user experience alignment and fostering community growth through thoughtful design solutions.

Fiscozen
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Digital Product Designer

Remote, Italy, Italy

Summary

Streamlined tax declaration processes for over 30,000 users and 100 partner accountants by designing and implementing Natural Language Forms (NLF).

Highlights

Streamlined the tax declaration data entry process by designing and implementing Natural Language Forms (NLF).

Simplified tax calculation for over 100 partner accountants, drastically improving their operational efficiency and accuracy.

Enhanced the user experience for more than 30,000 users, making tax declaration more intuitive and efficient, reducing user errors and support inquiries.

Leveraged innovative design solutions to reduce complexity in financial data management, improving overall system usability and user satisfaction.

Education

Epicode School
Remote, Italy, Italy

Certificate

Full-stack Development

Courses

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Bootstrap

React.js

React-Bootstrap

Node.js

MongoDB

Next.js

Academy of Fine Arts Catania
Catania, Sicily, Italy

Bachelor of Arts

Graphic Design/Business Communication

Courses

Graphic Design

Visual Communication

Emerging Art Technologies

Communicative Languages

Modern Design Techniques

Innovative Tools

Professional and Legal Expertise for Freelance Visual Communication

Skills

Design & Research

Graphic Design, Editorial Design, Visual Design for Data Visualization, User Interface Design (UI), User Experience Design (UX), Workshop Facilitation, User Research, Prototyping, Ideation, User-Centered Design.

Design Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud, Affinity Suite, Figma/FigJam, Maze, Miro.

Frontend Development

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Wordpress, Webflow, Shopify, Bootstrap, React-Bootstrap.

Backend Technologies

Node.js, MongoDB, Next.js.

Development Tools

Elementor, Framer, GitHub, Postman, Visual Studio Code.

Interests

Hobbies

Coffee, Reading, Video Games, Motorcycling, Plants, Music.