Wadim van Akkeren
Lead / Senior Designer
A designer that found his origin in branding and
graphic design, but evolved into a digital, visually
strong interface designer that loves building structured
design systems in Figma.
Key highlights
12 years of design experience
Design system expert after 9 years of building design systems in Figma
5 years of design consultancy experience
Working on exemplary branding projects for 11 years
Always been excelling in working together with developers to bring design
and development closer together which improves quality, consistency and
efficiency
Knowledge of front-end development to know possibilities
Projects
Biogroup
Jun 2024 - Current
Design lead
Setting up the Biogroup brand for the digital world. Translating their
brandguide to a design system and utilizing the design system by
designing an web app including my space and book appointment
environment.
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Projects
Kuweit International Bank
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Senior Designer
Working together in a team of designers to set up KIBs design system and
create UI screen designs.
UI
Design Systems
UX
Figma
Component design
Design/development sync
Prototyping
GrandVision
Okt 2019 - Jan 2020
Senior UI Designer
Setting up a design workflow for the team and leading communications
between design and front-end development. Creating a design system
that can be themed for multiple brands
Design Systems
UI
UX
Component design
Design/development sync
Documentation
Variables/Tokens
Incentro
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Senior Designer
Consultancy work at multiple customers. Furthermore I was working on
Incentro’s own brand and work-at website.
UI
Design Systems
UX
Component design
Design/development sync
visual design
illustration/Tokens
Speakap
S kill s
User interface design
User experience design
(Re)Branding
Design systems
Figma
Visual design
Photography
HTML
2016
Senior Visual Designer
Consultancy work at multiple customers. Furthermore I was working on
Incentro’s own brand and work-at website.
Visual Design
Marketing support
Branding
Design system
Quantler
Cross-competency collaboration
2015 - 2018
Art Director & Lead UI/Visual Designer
Product designer for an algorithm crypto trading platform. Also designing
visuals vor socials and branding work.
Figma
UI
UX
Communication
Global Orange
Edu c at i o n
Digital & UI/UX Designer
Product designer for an algorithm crypto trading platform. Also designing
visuals vor socials and branding work.
Front-end Knowledge, CSS, HTML, Javascript
Avans Hogeschool
Bachelor, CMD
2010 - 2014
Perso na l d eta il s
Residence: Zaandijk
Nationality: Dutch
Fluent Languages: Dutch, English
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UI
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Prototyping
2016 - 2018
Webdesign
visual design
And more with clients like Ila, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Betty Blocks,
CrowdMobile, Moksi, DAFT
