Summary
Jim Kosem is a Senior Designer with 14+ years of experience building user-centred products across technology, government, and academia from Ljubljana, Slovenia. He combines deep UX/UI craft with product strategy and research, having led design teams, built design systems, and shipped accessibility-driven interfaces for organisations like SEDNA, Protocol Labs, and Intel. Jim is skilled at taking developer tools and CLI workflows from zero-to-one into polished web and native experiences, and he’s influenced browser standards and mobile guidelines for IPFS. He advises organisations and scales design as a strategic business driver through his consultancy and periodic evaluator role for the European Commission. Known for translating complex technical constraints into elegant, usable products, he also brings a rare mix of academic teaching and conference-level public speaking to his practice. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative leader who mentors teams to deliver measurable product outcomes while keeping inclusivity front and centre.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts Interaction Design, Master of Arts Interaction Design at Royal College of Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts Graphic Design at Cleveland Institute of Art
English, Slovenian