Dara Mijušković

November 2024 - ongoing

ShopView offers heavy-duty repair shop management software designed to increase revenue, boost technician efficiency, and enhance overall shop productivity through features like fast invoicing, intuitive navigation, and streamlined workflows.

• Created custom UI visuals for the client's marketing website by combining photos with simplified UI elements from their app.

• Edited raw photos of ShopView employees and workshops to maintain a unique style across all visuals.

• Refined compositions, enhanced lighting, and improved focus on key elements to strengthen storytelling.

• Integrated and enhanced existing UI components and widgets from the client's app, ensuring each illustration conveyed a clear and effective message.

January 2025 - ongoing

• Redesigned a section of the desktop application featuring a complex, multi-tabbed page.

• Organized various data types across tabs, including tables, lists, and forms, for easy access.

• Enabled workshop managers and technicians to quickly retrieve essential statistics, labor estimates, repair times, and financial information.

• Improved the ordering process for new parts, making it more efficient and user-friendly.

• Working directly with two managers and the product team to execute design solutions.

September 2024 - ongoing

SAFA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions, focusing on threat intelligence and custom cybersecurity services to protect organizations against emerging cyber threats, particularly in the APAC region.

• Developing an interactive web solution with animated elements to invite the target audience to the SafaCon party.

• Collaborating with the HR and Business Development teams, bringing technical and design expertise to execute required solutions.

• Designing an online cybersecurity magazine from scratch, starting with the template and initial phases, designing specific pages (company updates, fun facts on niche topics, news and updates in the cybersecurity world), and delivering the final design solutions.

• Creating graphical solutions for conference promotional materials beyond web design (T-shirts, roll-ups, attendance notes, sticker packs, cocktail & food cards) and digital marketing assets (Twitter and other social media posts).

May 2024 - September 2024

Calendly leads the way in automated meeting scheduling, offering team-based scheduling solutions and integrations with advanced security features.

• Ideating and creating various Lottie animations for key pages of the main webpage, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines.

• Collaborating with another Senior Designer and the main Product Manager for the marketing webpage.

• Frequently working with two to three Full-Stack Developers to implement design solutions.

May 2024 - September 2024

• Creating graphical solutions for one-pagers, promotional materials (flyers), illustrations, and blog page covers, primarily in digital format.

• Designing non-digital assets when required, such as floor signage, posters, and table signage for events, including the Calendly kick-off in Arizona.

• Developing simple animations in GIF format.

• Working under the supervision of the responsible manager, collaborating with the Lead Designer and a team of designers.

• Occasionally collaborating with other team members, such as Recruitment and Sales Managers, to meet various requirements related to the Calendly Creative Team.

June 2023 - May 2024

Spotted Zebra offers a skills-based workforce management platform with tools like a Skills Cloud and Analytics Dashboard, helping organizations make data-driven decisions to address the skills-gap and power skills-based organizations.

• Designing three unique applications: one for candidates, one for recruiters, and a backlog/admin panel, covering all aspects of the platform.

• Working in agile teams typically consisting of a Product Manager, QA Engineer, and two to three full-stack developers.

• Initially started as a sole designer on projects and later became part of the company’s design team as it expanded to include four more designers.

• Improving platform accessibility according to WCAG 3 standards, ensuring compliance with legal requirements for visually challenged users, and developing unique accessibility solutions.

• Conducting UX research and enhancements based on direct user data, including insights from HR and recruitment specialists at prominent companies such as Disney and Lloyds Bank.

January 2023 - June 2023

• Designed job advertisements featuring FatCat Avatars to enhance candidate engagement and attraction.

• Created illustrations, design solutions, and downloadable materials (tables, PDF mini templates, e-books) for FatCat Blogs.

• Developed marketing materials for social media (LinkedIn, Instagram), including custom illustrations.

September 2022 - January 2023

Fox Vision is an advertising company specializing in the food industry, specifically tailored for tablet displays to address the advertising needs of food delivery companies.

• Designing and developing the marketing webpage to promote the application, with a focus on marketing coverage in urban areas.

• Leading the ideation process from scratch to create a unique and comprehensive solution.

• Collaborating with a team consisting of a developer, copywriter, and manager/stakeholder to execute the project.

July 2022 - June 2023

• Creating character designs and animations that align with intercultural requirements, incorporating diverse perspectives for effective global communication.

• Designing custom maps for the application, utilizing Google tools with Styling Wizard, and optimizing them for tablet displays within the Fox Vision product.

• Ensuring seamless design integration for display tablets used in food delivery vehicles, optimizing clear communication in a dynamic, mobile environment.

• Collaborating with a team consisting of a Product Manager and three to four full-stack developers while working as the sole designer.

July 2023 - June 2023

• Designed layouts, illustrations, and ideated web pages for FatCat Select and FatCat Remote.

• Developed social media projects to increase company visibility, creating unique illustrations adapted for various LinkedIn and Instagram formats.

• Created original illustrations from scratch while adhering to brand guidelines, including FatCat Avatars.