Summary
Alexandru Cotoranu is a Senior UX/UI Designer with 11 years of experience crafting user-centered digital products across enterprise and agency environments, now leading design at METRO Markets in Düsseldorf. He blends interaction-design rigor from an MSc with hands-on front-end and prototyping skills gained building dashboards, responsive sites, and internal tools across sectors like retail, analytics, and govtech. Known for pragmatic creativity, he runs user research, workshops and testing to turn complex workflows into clear, usable interfaces while proposing “outside the box” alternatives that drive innovation. Comfortable in agile multidisciplinary teams, he pairs visual craft with technical fluency in HTML/CSS, JS frameworks and design systems—often building small tools to accelerate UX work.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc) Interaction Design, Master of Science (MSc) Interaction Design at Malmö University
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Interactive Arts and Technology (with a focus in New Media Environments and Interaction Design), Bachelor of Science (BSc) Interactive Arts and Technology (with a focus in New Media Environments and Interaction Design) at Simon Fraser University
English, Romanian, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese