Tomáš Kafka
Product designer with a deep understanding of technologies (including machine learning, recommendation systems) and practice of linking them to actual user needs.
Fluid with analytics and user research (formerly also product manager, data scientist, software engineer).
Read more on LinkedIn.
Currently enjoying being an indie product developer with Weathergraph.
Previously
- Improving search and relevance (UX, interactions, productizing and co-authoring R&D's innovations) at czech largest job portal Jobs.cz (LMC).
- Bringing up, launching and iterating a redesign of classifieds service for millions Sbazar.cz, refreshing a car seller aggregator Sauto.cz and analyzing, understanding and growing conversions at e-commerce aggregator Zbozi.cz with the sharp e-commerce girls & guys of Seznam.cz.
- Finding product insights in big data, visualizing data, prototyping data visualization tools, being a best partner to product managers and owners on e-commerce services for millions of people at Seznam.cz.
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Designing, prototyping and analyzing improvements for Mapy.cz — maps
for millions of outdoor lovers. Having great fun with a team of real enthusiasts.
Web & iOS/Android apps, Seznam.cz. -
Bringing a 1 000 000+ monthly-active-users game from desktop to mobile in mobile's early days, having fun with
awesome people from gaming industry and learning a lot of product lessons from them.
UX lead, Geewa. -
Enjoyed the hell out of being a 'developing designer' in a tight team of insanely smart product hackers of
future Avocode crew, where we brought up a new wave of design handoff/code
generation tools to the world of web.
Learning from the whole hype-launch-sustain cycle.
Digging into
Photoshop's internals while making sure the generated code is as close to 'how real developer would have coded
this', which was a major part of product's UX.
CSS Hat (now Avocode).