Highly skilled Art Director & UI / UX Designer with a focus on creating meaningful experiences through design.
Rihards Gromuls
UI / UX Designer & Art Director
Expertise
I have been into digital design since 2003, I try to bring my practical perspective & creative problem-solving approach to create products and experiences people love to use. It has always been my persistence to merge myself into various creative fields and obsessive attention to details that define my work.
With a mixed background of advertising, interaction design & web, print, motion design, experiences as digital designer and a developer, and a Master's education in International Creative Advertising, I am competent in most of designing processes.
“Creating a long-term philosophies not numbers have been the key to my success as a designer.”
Resume
Skill set
- User Interface (UI) Design
- User Experience (UX) Principles
- Digital Design
- Interactive Design
- Interaction Design
- Design Principles
- Education
- Mobile
- Prototyping
- Storyboarding
- Wire-framing
- User Research
- Information Architecture
- Experience Design
- Business Development
- Art Direction
- Product Design
- Digital Marketing & Strategy
- Usability Design
- Project Management
- Consulting
- Video/Film
- Motion Design
- Social Media
- Branding
Practice
- Sketch
- Adobe XD
- InVision (+Studio)
- Zeplin
- Figma
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Animate
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Final Cut Pro
- Adobe Audition
- Wordpress
- HTML/CSS
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Premiere
- Keynote
- YouTube
And many other digital tools…
My honest believe is that you have to be flexible with your digital tools – learn quick to adapt and learn quick how to use them, all what matters are the basic principles
Work
Riddle Digital – Co-Founder / Art Director / UI & UX Designer
2013 - Present | Riga, Latvia
Overcame business related challenges to construct & sustain a team with a shared vision for creating honest & high performing cross-platform solutions with extensive focus on creating, designing & implementing these solutions. Leading the design for various products, project management, delivering & testing designs, prototypes for Web, Mobile (iOS & Android). Working with PMs and engineers to define features.
Presently – Co-Founder & Art Director
2018 - Present | Riga, Latvia
Discovered & leveraged client needs to create a better presentation/keynote experience. In-person workshops, responsible for creating storyboards & story telling journeys. Taking part in understanding the business phase of various stages of communication assets.
Accenture | Interactive Baltic - Level 9 UI/UX
2020 - 2021 | Riga, Latvia
Develop Sound UX Concepts, including creating personas, storyboards, scenarios, user flow and uses cases, as well as rapid prototyping. Consulting on Design Systems and Developing a Design System for one of the leading UK Streaming Services. As well as consluting on creating HTML5 marketing projects and motion design.
RDMV – Teacher
2015 - Present | Riga, Latvia
Teaching 3rd & 4th year Advertising Design students basic skills, methods and tools to effectively & compellingly communicate their ideas through digital mediums.
Absolute Software – Creative Director & Lead Design
2013 - 2014 | Hamburg, Germany
Researched, designed & prototyped a more approachable & valuable experience for high profile accounts. Developed successful brands, designed & implemented different interactive, Web & CMS projects, as well as consulting services.
Wrong – Interactive Designer
2011 - 2012 | Riga, Latvia
Designed whole interactive projects, idea visualisations, web design, motion graphics, mobile applications, video and post production. Giving consultation on design and user experience.
Education
Manchester Metropolitan University
2012 - 2013 Manchester, UK
MSc International Creative Advertising (2.1)
University of Wolverhampton
2008 - 2011 | Wolverhampton, UK
Ba (Hons) Interactive Media & the Web (First Class)
Honorable mentions
Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity
2017 & 2018 | Young Lion Latvia
Representing team Latvia in the Cyber category for two years in a row.
Golden Helmet – Gold Award (2014) & ADWARDS – People’s Choice (2015)
Category “Stress & psychosocial risk prevention” & “Interactive & Digital Solutions” | project “sajutugids.com”
Bronze Award @ Kiev International Advertising Festival
2013
Bronze - Category G-2 with the project “1 Million Rounds of Applause for Latvian Olympians”.
Finalist @ Golden Hammer @ ADWARDS
2013
Finalist - category E-1 (Golden Hammer) & category “Interactive and digital solutions” with the project “1 Million Rounds of Applause for Latvian Olympians”.
