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UChicago

Kevin Gugelmann

Blending Imagination and Engineering into Human-Centric Software

  • End-to-end SaaS production, from user research and design to multi-platform development and marketing
  • Design that performs, such as redesigning the TFDi's landing page (2x site traffic in one month) and winning the UChicago designathon (Most Well-Designed App, 2022)
  • Diverse experience across languages (English, German), industries (EV Charging, Precision Medicine, Sport, FinTech, Task Management), design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD), and programming tools (React, Svelte, TypeScript, Flutter/Dart, React Native, Tailwind CSS, Python, C, Java)

2023

GridLink

EV Fleet Management SaaS — Platform Engineer

Redesigned the fleet charging schedule page in Figma and implemented my changes in React. Simplified navigation UX with a platform-wide redesign proposal.

React

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TypeScript

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Figma

2023

30-Day Redesign: Arc for iOS

UX Case Study — Research, Design, & Writing

Published an article on my 30-day unsolicited redesign of Arc for iOS in Bootcamp of the largest design publication on Medium, the UX Collective.

Figma

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Medium

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Artboard Studio

2023

Zeesta Labs

Medical AI Startup — UI/UX Design, Frontend Dev, & Brand Strategy

Built up a unique verbal & visual brand identity from scratch, including the logo, documented in a custom brand book. Helped develop an efficient iOS app in React Native based on my Figma UI designs. Determined unique value proposition.

Figma

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Figma Variables

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React Native

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TypeScript

2023

My Online Portfolio

Website — Design & Development

This website! Designed in Sketch. Developed with SvelteKit & Tailwind CSS. Deployed on GitHub Pages. Fully responsive. Image lazy-loading and 98% Lighthouse Performance.

Sketch

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SvelteKit

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Tailwind CSS

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TypeScript

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GitHub Pages

2022

Sport Video Analysis

Desktop App — Concept Design

Designed and prototyped ten UI states of a sport video analysis desktop app, which would solve the lack of documented session review I experienced when training for UK rowing national gold in high school. Used mainly dark neutrals to keep the user's focus on each video.

Sketch

2022

Winner: Most Well-Designed App at UChicago's Annual Designathon

Concept Mobile App — Figma Designathon

Successfully completed a 5-hour Figma designathon as part of an ad-hoc UChicago team. Our prize-winning mobile app prototype gamified pizza ordering with the Secret Santa concept, answering the prompt 'how can we reimagine the pizza ordering and delivery process?'

Figma

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FigJam

2021

Trade Finance Distribution Initiative

Website Redesign — Digital Marketing Intern

Led the full redesign of their primary website using Figma and Webflow, increasing site traffic by 100% within the first month. Revamped all 1k+ words of the original copy, eliminating financial jargon, leading to a sub-20% bounce rate on 3.7k monthly visits. Determined slogan.

Figma

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Webflow

2020

Mindxone

SaaS Web App — Co-Founder

Co-developed a web app reimagining how people create and manage their digital content, based on a tag–exclusive organisation ideology. Took the product to its MVP stage. Sunset to focus on my studies.

Adobe XD

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HTML/CSS/JS

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JQuery

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NodeJS

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Express.js

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AWS

2019

Task App with Focus Timer

Mobile App — Design & Development

Designed, prototyped, and built an iOS task app with a focus timer and priority estimation. Swipe-first navigation and duration selection. Custom subtle and playful micro-interactions. Too young to publish to the App Store (16 years old).

InVision Studio

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Flutter

2018

Panorama Mail

Mobile App — Concept Design

Prototyped 57 animated artboards of a concept mobile mail app. The titular 'Panorama' screen enables rapid email triaging. Features also include: snooze, quick reply, and undo send. Inspired by Spark Mail.

Adobe XD

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Auto-Animate

2018

Prismatic News

Android App — Native Development

Developed and published a native Android app that fetches trending news via an API, then scrapes webpages for offline reading. Nine reading theme variants. Line-by-line text-to-speech. AI top sentences highlighting. 1000+ installs on the Google Play Store.

Android Studio

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Java

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Firebase

Let's Build Something Worth Sharing

  • While I'm actively working on a startup, I'm always open to future opportunities
  • Whether you're a startup or established brand, let's discuss your project
    • UI/UX design
    • Frontend development
    • Backend development
    • Marketing strategy
    • Copywriting
  • Or feel free to just say hi – I always love to hear about new ideas, tools, and technologies
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Designed in Sketch. Developed with SvelteKit & TailwindCSS.
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