Elvira HellenpártEST. 2019
Colophon · About UX Designer & Experience Strategist 6+ years —

§ About the Designer

Designer.
Strategist.
Mentor.

Portrait of Elvira Hellenpárt, chin resting on her hand, against a pale grey-blue wall.

I'm a UX designer with 6+ years of experience in complex B2B/B2G and SaaS products, working across research, strategy and design.

At Unite, I'm building the first Journey Management framework and bringing continuous user research into how product decisions get made. Before that, I redesigned the core purchasing journeys of a marketplace built over 25 years — search, product pages, checkout and returns.

Earlier projects took me to a sustainability training app for factory workers in India and China, and to LEE, a mentoring app for queer youth. Both were built for people whose needs are easy to overlook, and both shaped how I think about accessibility and inclusive design.

I also mentor aspiring UX designers at CareerFoundry, reviewing student work and giving feedback they can act on.

Before design, I worked in digital marketing — a lot of metrics, a lot of reporting on what people did, without really being able to ask them why. That gap is what moved me into UX.

§ How I Work

Three things that shape how I work.

01

Understand the problem before designing it.

Most design problems turn out to be listening problems. I plan for research before I start drawing, because the problem written in the brief is often not the one worth solving.

02

Design for the people who are easy to overlook.

Accessibility and inclusion are where the useful design questions sit. Designing for the average user is straightforward; making sure the others aren't left behind is the harder part of the work.

03

Test it before building it.

Prototypes are cheaper to change than production code. Validating an idea with real users first means decisions rest on evidence rather than opinion — including the decision not to build something.

§ Curriculum

Where I've been.

Full CV (PDF)
2021 — NOW

UX/UI Designer · Unite (Remote)

UX across 10+ flows including Checkout, User Management, Returns, and core navigation for a 25-year-old B2B/B2G marketplace. Founded the company's first customer research panel and Journey Management framework (CXomni + GA4). Defined WCAG 2.1 standards for UI components and inclusive language.

2019 — 2026

UX Design Tutor · CareerFoundry (Freelance)

Mentored aspiring UX designers through structured feedback, project work, and 1:1 support — from research through prototyping. Six years and counting.

2020 — 2022

UX/UI Designer · LEE (Freelance)

Native mobile app for queer youth — safety, anonymity, accessibility, and inclusion. User research, persona work, usability testing, iterative prototypes.

2019 — 2021

UX/UI Designer · Sustify (Freelance, EN/DE)

Inclusive UX for factory workers in Asia — a digital learning platform across diverse literacy levels. Information flow, navigation, accessibility.

EDUCATION

Diploma · PR & International Communication

Budapest College of Communication and Business. Plus a UX/UI Design certification — user-centered design, research, prototyping, usability testing.

§ Tools, honestly

Figma, FigJam, CXomni, GA4, Notion, a paper notebook, a recording app. WCAG 2.1 reference always within reach. AI tools where they actually help — and not where they don't.

§ Recognition

  • — Founded Unite's first research panel
  • — Founded Unite's Journey Mgmt framework
  • — 6+ years mentoring at CareerFoundry
  • — WCAG 2.1 standards lead, Unite

§ Languages

  • — Hungarian, native
  • — German, fluent
  • — English, fluent
  • — Spanish, basic

§ Get in touch

Write a letter,
not a meeting invite.

I prefer email to scheduled calls. Tell me what you're working on, who it's for, and why it matters to you. A paragraph is plenty. I reply within a week, usually two.

elvirahellenpart.ux@gmail.com