Roman Horokhovatskyy

Hi, I’m Roman Horokhovatskyy, a multidisciplinary designer with 15+ years of experience. Originally from Lviv, Ukraine, I currently reside in Dublin, Ireland. I care about form and function and believe in the power of simplicity.

I currently spend my days designing at ESW. Previously, I have had the privilege to improve products used and loved by many users, and these are some of the clients:

Case studies

Design System

SIAE

I led the end-to-end design process for creating a Design System for the web, which covered a complete redesign of over 10+ Saas products.
Mobile App

SIAE

SIAE is the monopolist intermediary between the authors of musical tracks and consumers, managing the economic aspects and the distribution of money from royalties of Italian-copyrighted music to authors. I collaborated with them in the creation of the first app SIAE+ that supports all the major services of the company.
Euroshop

Cefla

Cefla is an international multi-business company that focused on Civil and Industrial Plant Engineering, Retail Design Solutions, and more. I collaborated with them in the creation of the app which offers a demo used in Euroshop on the features of the innovative experience of simplified shopping.
Media Center

Ferrari

Ferrari is an Italian supercar manufacturer. Ferrari’s Media Center is a globally distributed website that focuses on the distribution of media content for journalists, writers, publishers and editors. Offers exclusive content that speaks to the Ferrari brand philosophy of originality, aspiration and inspiration. I had the honour of being able to collaborate in the restyling of the Media Center website.
Virtual Reality

Aeon

A Virtual Reality experience working in the browser on multiple devices starting from mobile phone to VR Headset such as Oculus Rift 2.

Testimonials

Roman is one of the best product designers I have ever worked with. I had the pleasure to be his manager at MyWallSt for almost a year and saw him grow from a new hire to MyWallSt's lead designer.

Head of Design
Fabian Steuer – MyWallSt
Roman is by far one of the best interaction designers I've ever worked with. His discipline, work ethic and enthusiasm are second to none. He is super-talented, thoughtful, organised and easy to work with.

Director of Design
Nora Gasparik – Hertz
In particular, I thank Roman for the precious operational support in the realization of the Design System for SIAE. It was essential for us to have his support and end-to-end approach.

Engineering
Gioia Michele – SIAE
Roman’s creative talent is the best I have seen. His attention to detail and phenomenal skill is best in class. His designs would always delight our clients and they always wanted him to work on their projects.

CTO
Massimo Ruggirello – LOVEThESIGN
Roman is a professional who loves his job. Attentive to detail and a perfectionist, he never stops trying to improve his designs until they are flawless. I am sure that a great future awaits him and I hope to be able to collaborate with him again.

Creative Director
Daniel Bedusa – Land Ho
I collaborated with Roman on the creation of several websites. In particular, his role was the Web Designer, a role in which he proved to be a really good partner.

Creative Director
Iacopo Bellavia – Aritmos

More about me

I iterate, prototype, and arrive at comprehensive solutions, deliver precise, conceptual, and visually elegant design specs with the highest fidelity possible, and work closely with engineers to ensure high-quality execution.

Readings

I go in phases with reading… sometimes consuming multiple books a month while other times take months to read one book. This is a list of books I recommend.

Software

Apps I use just about every day.

Hardware

Here are most of the things I regularly use to make everything!

Latest Bits

Some of projects that I have dealt with during my career, more info is available uppon request.

iOS Crypto & Bitcoin app

Kraken

I led the re-design of the main page of the iOS Kraken app, a leader in Europe's Bitcoin trading platform.
Place

Valentino

Valentino is an Italian luxury fashion brand. I led the restyling of the intranet portal used by Valentino employees. Main functionalities include calendar, company news, social stream, magazine stream and online courses.
Main Website

IED

IED is a design institute located in Italy, Spain, Brazil and China. Up to now, it has had over +100K students. I participated in the restyling of the main site, which will be published in 2021.
Data Visualization

UBI Banca

I led the design of a visual language for Data Visualization widgets used in UBI Banca’s Data Intelligence internal product.
Data Visualization

FCA Bank

FCA Bank is a bank dedicated to motorists, which mainly operates in the automotive financing sector and cooperates with prestigious automotive brands. I led the design interface and the process of ideation and creation of the mortgages simulation concept.
Digital Workspace

UBI Banca

UBI Banca is an Italian banking group, the fifth largest in Italy by a number of branches. I led the creation of the new portal and Design System used by more than 20.000 employees.
MEU TIM

TIM

TIM is the largest Italian telecommunications service provider, with a turnover of over 18 billion a year. I collaborated with them in the restyling of the MyTIM app for Brazil country.
Coworking

LAND HO

A coworking service that provides top tier space in two parts in Rome city to accommodate between 50-200 professionals on any given day. I led the entire end-to-end process in the design and implementation, featuring the main website, locations and a booking system.
Poly Characters
NFT
Vector low-polygon characters.
3D Sphere
NFT
A Visual Design 3D pink sphere.
Filament

I designed a corporate identity that reflects the strong potential in online training, communicates with potential users as the company offers a vast and updated catalogue of IT courses.
Polygon

Polygon is an interactive installation that conveys the emotional involvement of a single participant or the entire group. It offers multiple interactions using the sequencer philosophy.
3D Rainbow
NFT
A Visual Design 3D rainbow sphere.
Antechamber

A short video inspired by Person of Interest tv-series.
HUD

Heads-up display for the NUKEX composing
Monitor

RAI

I designed the main website and icon set for the movie called Monitor.

About this website ^{Nerd Zone}

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Get In Touch

If you’d like me to work on your product or say hello, please feel free to reach me via e-mail or Twitter. I speak fluently in English, Italian, Ukrainian and Russian.

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