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Hello — I'm Mikias, a UX designer creating digital experiences and helping translate them to development ensuring product effectiveness, efficiency, and accessibility to maximize
product relevance and satisfaction.

Hello — I'm Mikias, a UX designer creating digital experiences and helping translate them to development ensuring product effectiveness, efficiency, and accessibility to maximize product relevance and satisfaction.

Open to work

— Based in Alexandria, VA

Recent works

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Crafting stories with the Gecko

UI & Graphic Design

A series of projects involving landing pages and visual designs for branding and multiple marketing campaigns. Our goal was to keep consistent branding throughout multiple channels with the ultimate pillars being ...

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Impacting retention & communication

UX & Design system

Humanizing insurance at GEICO through informational design and making the experience intuitive. A case study on designing and building an Email Design System to improve retention and communication as part of CRM.

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Housegreen mobile app

UX, UI & Ixd

Housegreen is a smart home mobile application that focuses on helping Generation Z in taking care of their house plants by introducing a new approach in maintaining a healthier indoor environment.

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Postcomet YouTube widget

UX & Web Design

We created Postcomet for the City of Seattle, a solution that integrates SMS into YouTube Live broadcast, allowing people to engage regardless of their viewing location through SMS Channel.

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College Studio

UI & Front-end

A personal project that helps college students in discovering most colleges and universities within the U.S through easily accessible web app. Utilizing ReactJS and Firebase along with College Score API provided by U.S. Department of Education.

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ConnectOS

UX, UI & Design System

A mobile operating system for those in the global south and rural communities with low literacy, low technological literacy with limited access to power, and connectivity. Users in the emerging world are more frequent ...

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ESFNA

UX & UI

Ethiopian Sport Federation in North America (ESFNA) improving website experience through a redesign. Every summer Ethiopians gather around for one full week to celebrate unity and culture while enjoying a soccer tournament along with other cultural activities...

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The churches of Lalibela

Infographic

If you ever want to visit one of the oldest churches craved out of a rock top-down, you can get ahead-start with these fascinating facts about the stunning churches.The visual potential of appearance is exploited to convey what the churches look like in real life...

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See you soon :)