Daniel Ploskonka

I am a professional UX / UI Designer & Front-End Developer

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Hi, I'm Daniel

I am a UX & UI Designer who has a passion for solving problems with design, HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Since 2006 I have proudly been making the internet a better place, one website and application at a time. I have had the pleasure to work on many great projects over the years, for exciting and diverse companies in the UK, Europe and Australia. Please explore my website, if you have any questions or if you would you like to hire me as your consultant or as a UX/UI/Product Designer or Website Developer, please give me a call or just simply send me a message. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Work & Experience

Nov 2021 - May 2022
UX/UI DESIGNER @ Inner Circle for Fire Rescue Victoria
UX Design of a new internal application used by firefighters
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
UX/UI DESIGNER @ Inner Circle for AGL Energy
UX Design of marketing insights and reporting tools
Mar 2020 - May 2021
UX/UI DESIGNER / FRONT-END DEVELOPER @ WISE SYNC
SASS PRODUCT UX /UI Design and Front End Development in Vue.js
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
SENIOR UI DEVELOPER @ ACCENTURE for COLES
Design and Development for Coles.com.au. Implementing Campaigns, Improvement to Inspire and Create.
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
SENIOR UX/UI DESIGNER | ANGULAR @ EQUIFAX
Design and front end development of a new Data Capture application used for credit product.
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
SENIOR FRONT-END DEVELOPER @ KNOSYS
Design and development of new functionalities of knowledge managment platform. UX/UI/Accessibility improvements.
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
LEAD UI DEVELOPER @ HEATHWALLACE
Lead UI development of hybrid mobile banking app focusing on performance, semantics and accessibility.
May 2016 - Sep 2016
UI/UX DESIGNER @ CENGAGE
UX / UI design of e-learning / ebook platform. Redesign of key landing web pages.
March 2016 - May 2016
UI/UX DESIGNER / FRONT END DEVELOPER @ Kiandra IT
Internal systems redesign and development for RACGP. UX/UI/Front-End.
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER @ Trilogy / Perth, AU
Web / UI Design, Front End Coding / Managing development resources
Nov 2012 - Nov 2014
WEBSITE DESIGNER @ IINET / Perth, AU
Web / UI / UX / Front - End Developer. Over the period of 2 years I've designed and developed micro sites, landing pages, EDM's etc. Designed and coded the front-end of JIVA as well I came with concepts for current iiNet's website. Implemented CSS framework.
Mar 2011 - Oct 2012
WEB / GRAPHIC DESIGNER @ R2 INTERNATIONAL / London, UK
web design and development for R2 International’s clients. Building websites from scratch Developing Templates for WordPress and PrestaShop. Biggest achievement: Branding Gamucci.com Designing all marketing materials, designing 3d product mockups. Design and development of gamucci.com/shop which boosted sales by 20000%. Print Design for all Marketing Materials such as , banners, popups, roll banners, etc.
Sep 2010 - Dec 2010
INTERACTIVE DESIGNER @ PARTYGAMING / London, UK
jpg banners, converting swf to gif banners, flash banners design, landing pages design, newsletter design and XHTML + CSS coding, fixing issues on landing and promo pages
May 2010 - Sep 2010
WEB DESIGNER @ THINK MEDIA NET / London, UK
web design, static banners design for Thinkmn.com, designing website content (typography), developing website 360studios.me (converting XHTML to WordPress), design all graphic content for 360studios.me
Nov 2009 - Jul 2010
GRAPHIC DESIGNER / WEB DESIGNER @ 4UK MEDIA GROUP / London, UK
Website Design, XHTML + CSS / PHP, design and development from scratch:greenmarkcarpentry.co.uk, saraint.co.uk, festiwalcooltury.co.uk, design adverts for weekly magazine (PRINT), administration and editing elondyn.co.uk, prl24.net, redesign: cooltura.co.uk/koncerty
Sep 2009 - Dec 2011
Web Designer @ HURLINGHAM GROUP / London, UK
Website Design, XHTML + CSS / PHP/ WordPress, design and developing from scratch: hurlinghamgroup.com, oxsicoat.com, converting XHTML to WordPress CMS

My Specialties

Web/App/Product design
Research, User Centered Design, Enterprise B2B and B2C products
Front-End Development
HTML / CSS / SASS,  JS.
eCommerce
Online store design and conversion optimization.

Hobbies & Interests

  • Photography
  • UX & UI Design
  • Snorkeling & Diving
  • Snowboarding
  • Martial Arts
  • Beer Brewing
Hardfolio – Mobile crypto wallet design
Hardfolio – Mobile crypto wallet design
App Design / UI Design / UX Design
eCommerce UX UI Design and WordPress Implementation
eCommerce UX UI Design and WordPress Implementation
Front End Development / UI Design / UX Design / Web Design / WordPress Development
UI Admin redesign and development
UI Admin redesign and development
UI Design / Web Design
Syoh – UX/UI Design & Front End Development
Syoh – UX/UI Design & Front End Development
UI Design / Web Design
UI Admin redesign
UI Admin redesign
UI Design / Web Design
ACCRU Melbourne – UX & UI Design
ACCRU Melbourne – UX & UI Design
UI Design / Web Design
UX, UI, Front End Development, WordPress Implementation
UX, UI, Front End Development, WordPress Implementation
Front End Development / UI Design / UX Design / Web Design
Retail Track App Redesign
Retail Track App Redesign
App Design / UI Design / UX Design

How good website design drives traffic and sales

As a web designer I always put user first. The easiest, fastest, most intuitive way of achieving a goal is my first priority.

Now when there is around billion websites (based on internet live stats ) any user looking for any product on the internet has a choice.
If your website is not on first page of Google, it’s slow, not intuitive, doesn’t work on mobile devices or doesn’t seem legit, user will close your website in less than 4s and never come back.
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[WordPress][Solved]Can’t install any plugin. WP asks for FTP details.

Sometimes I feel like development on a PC is much easier than on Mac. My experience so far is that the Mac just throws stuff at you – mostly permissions but dealing with them is probably more painful for me as I am fairly new Mac user.

So I tried to install a fresh WP website and got a prompt that they couldn’t generate the wp-config.php file. Ive copied the code and manually placed the file on hard drive, just to finish the installation. Then, when tried to install some plugins got asked about the ftp details (look below image). As i am running my local development version and don’t have and FTP server installed I thought that there definitely is a way of installing everything without FTP server.

Screen Shot 2015-05-18 at 3.02.27 pm

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[WordPress][fixed] couldn’t type space in form textareas and inputs

Funny how sometimes the investigation takes more time than actual fix itself.

As an only web designer in the company I need to deal with a lot of small bugs. Most of the time is browser incompatibilities or other small mostly CSS issues. But sometimes you come across something silly. This one was one of those things where fix is very simple but the process leading up to it was interesting. Thought I’d share. Read more

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