About me
Professional experience
Design Team Lead @ DeskTime
Dec 2019 - Oct 2023. Senior User Experience and User Interface Designer responsible for the product's visual feel and usability. Conducting and Analyzing user experience research. Leading Design Team.
https://desktime.com/
User Interface Designer @ Roadgames
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019. User Interface designer on Roadgames webpage, social materials and mobile app. Conducted user research by talking to the customers and gathering their feedback, testing prototypes, A/B testing and analyzing website data in Hotjar analytics.
User Experience and User Interface Designer @ Draugiem.lv
May 2018 - Dec 2019. User interface design on different Applications within Draugiem.lv website. Focused on improvements of the site usability and conducted experiments on how to engage more people within the product.
Freelance UX / UI Designer
May 2010 - Present. When i started my education at Art Academy of Latvia, I have always been working of different freelance projects. Websites, Mobiles apps, Animations, Video, Photography, 3D Animations, 3D Visualizations, and much more.
Education
Art Academy of Latvia
2010 - 2014. Bachelor's Degree, Design.
Ventspils 5th Seconday School
From Primary School to Higschool
Certifications
Komercizglītības Centrs SIA
Organizational Leaderships - 12 hour - in person course completed.
Skills: Team Management · Design Leadership · Leadership
Data-Driven Design: Quantitative Research for UX
Interaction Design Foundation course on Quantitative Research for UX. In depth training on different quantitative UX research aproaches and methods.
Accessibility: How to Design for All
Interaction Design Foundation course on Accessibility and importance of design beign accessible by everyone. Starting from websites contrast ratios to screen reader tests.
Tools
Figma
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premier Pro
Adobe Lightroom
Google Analytics
Sketch
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe XD
Hotjar
Zeplin
Adobe After Effect
Adobe Animate
Clarity
Areas of expertise
User Experience (UX)
Design thinking
Wireframing
Animations
User Interface (UI)
User interviews
Team management
Photography
UX Research
Prototyping
Graphic Design
Type Design
Recomendations
Uģis Briedis - COO @ DeskTime
"Gatis is a great team player with a wide view on all things design and Ux/Ui. Always looking for new ways to improve on every detail of the products. What is even more important - Gatis never stops learning, be it the latest design trends or how to make digital products more accessible for people with disabilities. Truly a well rounded professional for a keen eye for detail and interests that reach far beyond his field of expertise."
Toms Bļodnieks - ex COO @ DeskTime
Gatis is an incredibly great team player and UX/UI designer. Gatis has so much energy to do the UX/UI design, follow and manage the projects and is great to involve team in different team building events. I trully value his knowlage in UX and UI and his passion and time he invest in the project to solve all the issues users have. Never seen such passionate colleague who is learning so much continuously and never gets tired of learning and looking for new things to improve, AB test and discuss.
Aigars Uplejs - Web Developer @ DeskTime
"Gatis is eager to learn new things and expand his knowledge beyond design. Highly recommended. From a developers point of view it helps that Gatis has general knowledge of coding and understands what can and cannot be achieved in a reasonable timeframe."