Vesna Dean
Senior UX Designer at Grafana Labs
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVesna Dean is a Senior UX Designer based in Berlin with four years of focused experience designing enterprise software and B2B SaaS, currently shaping identity and access experiences across Grafana’s product suite. She blends product strategy, exploratory research, and hands-on interaction design to solve complex admin-facing problems while helping drive feature vision and planning. Vesna repeatedly applies a full-stack UX approach—from user interviews and usability testing to design systems and prototyping—ensuring solutions are usable, accessible and aligned with business goals. She also leads DesignOps, mentors junior designers, and participates in hiring, reflecting a knack for scaling design practice as teams grow. With an M.Sc.Eng. in Interaction Design and training from Stanford’s Design Sprint, she pairs rigorous method with a translator’s attention to language and nuance, which helps her translate technical requirements into clear, user-centred interfaces.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Course in the Italian language, Course in the Italian language at Michelangelo Institute of FlorenceBachelor's degree, English language and literature, Italian language and literature, Bachelor's degree, English language and literature, Italian language and literature at University of ZadarMaster of Science in Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.), Interaction Design, Master of Science in Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.), Interaction Design at Tallinn University8-Week Design Sprint, 8-Week Design Sprint at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessHuman Computer Interaction, UX/UI, Human Computer Interaction, UX/UI at The Interaction Design FoundationProfessional Diploma in UX Design, Professional Diploma in UX Design at UX Design Institute
Swedish, Italian, Croatian, English
Github Skills (15)
monitoring10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
visualization10
go10
prometheus10
grafana10
dashboard10
influxdb10
observability10
business-intelligence10
visualize10
mysql10
analytics10
composable10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
grafana/grafana
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Contributions:6 reviews, 10 comments, 2 issues in 2 years 6 months
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
grafana/design-system
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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