About Nikos
I’m a Senior Product Designer and Brand Design Lead with 10+ years of experience helping startups, scale-ups and digital teams turn complex ideas into clear, polished and scalable digital products.
As co-founder and design lead at NimaProject, I work across product strategy, UX/UI, design systems, brand identity and launch-ready execution. My strength is connecting the strategic and the practical: clarifying positioning, mapping user journeys, designing scalable interfaces, creating dev-ready specs and supporting teams through visual QA until the final product feels sharp and consistent.
I’m especially experienced in complex platforms, dashboards, search experiences, white-label products, data-heavy interfaces and early-stage product direction. I’ve worked across sectors including fashion tech, legal tech, IoT, events, marketplaces and SaaS.
Because I come from a software engineering background, I collaborate naturally with developers and understand how design decisions translate into implementation. I also keep close track of modern product trends, AI-assisted workflows and the way tools like Cursor, Antigravity and Figma are changing how design and development teams move faster.
English
Native or bilingual
Greek
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- NimaProject UKCo Founder & Product/Brand Design LeadDIGITAL AND ITDecember 2019 - Today (6 years and 6 months)Deliver end-to-end: positioning + discovery → roadmap → UX/UI → design systems → dev handoff → visual QA. Lead client acquisition, stakeholder workshops, scoping and prioritisation; translate ambiguity into dev-ready specs. Manage and mentor a small design team (2 designers previously, 1 currently) through reviews and direction. Build reusable systems and documentation that help teams ship faster and maintain quality over time.Selected work (high impact)Caselex PlatformFull redesign of a global competition law database; fixed readability and scalability issues through internal/external user research. Modern branding and a data-first UI with clearer highlights and timelines; improved workflows for editors and daily lawyer users. Created scalable interaction patterns and components to support future features without increasing complexity.Momizen Product RedesignComplete rebuild (brand, iconography, UX/UI) with research-led differentiation; 10k+ monthly visitors, ~8k vendors, 200%+ growth post-redesign. Defined trust-first visual language (photography + iconography) to increase credibility for parents and families.BibeCoffeeDesigned screens for World Barista Cup 2025 broadcasts and supported scalable platform decisions with PM/Engineering. Helped systemise UI patterns and specs so developers could ship faster with consistent results. Product & Brand DirectionCross-device UX/UI and distinctive visual system for an Io T-sensors platform. Clarified core flows and data visibility to differentiate the product and support daily operational use.
- NewStore BVSenior Product DesignerDIGITAL AND ITNovember 2022 - February 2026 (3 years and 3 months)Amsterdam, NetherlandsBuilt the consumer app design system, reducing client onboarding time by 40%+. Supported discovery and delivery for white-label features across multiple brand tenants.
- BibeCoffeeLead Product DesignerDIGITAL AND ITDecember 2021 - May 2022 (5 months)Athens, GreeceEstablished a scalable design system and handoff standards to speed up development and reduce rework. Ran customer testing and research sessions to validate UX decisions and improve key workflows. Delivered data-heavy prototypes and clear specs that improved developer implementation speed and accuracy.
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Education
- Informations Technology & Computer ScienceUniversity of Piraeus2018Education BSc