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HomeProjectsZoltán HosszúA dedicated creator at heart, a multidisciplinary designer of many skills. Idesign, code, teach, lead a team, and try to learn new skills every day.Currently leading the design efforts of Deutsche Telekom's Design Hub where I spend most of my time working on international projects designing UX & UI. It's super exciting to be able to work on products used by millions of people all over Europe and to do this with a talented and friendly team.In my spare time I build apps in Swift for Mac and iOS. Teaching has also become a part of my life and I’m very grateful for that. Giving back to the communityisamazing.EmailTwitterInstagramMedium2020Our team released the new Telekom app2020 AprilWhen I joined Deutsche Telekom in 2018 our team, Design Hub was mostly doing design localization of German products for the local markets around the EU. But in early 2019 we got the chance to become the lead design team for the redesign of the most important European product for Telekom: the self-care mobile application. It was already being used by over 5 million users monthly so it was quite an exciting challenge. Together with the awesome management and development teams we released the app to 9 countries. Read more about the process in this interview in Hungarian, or the story from the Product Owner's perspective.work2019I build my own IoT hardware now!2019 DecemberAs one of my main goals for 2019 I decided to try to make my home smarter. At first I just wanted to create a something simple. The fascination grew and grew and so did the possibilities I realized a home had. I learn a lot each time I create something. And because I've never had any experience with electronics before I struggle a lot. But today I can manage my alarm system, open and close the garage door, control many lights, set the heating or cooling and many more fun things, all integrated through Apple's HomeKit. I love doing this and it's a great and mostly cheap hobby. You can follow my very messy progress on Twitter in this thread.projectscodingeducationStarted teaching at Hungarian University of Fine Arts2019 MarchThe Hungarian University of Fine Arts is one of the most prestigious art schools of Hungary. UI Academy is a special 3 month course run by the university and organized by three amazing people. When they reached out to me to teach UI design basics and UI animation I knew I would love it. I wasn't wrong :) And at the end they even invited me to judge the final work and performance by the students, which was a total blast! It's been an honor to continue teaching each semester ever since.teaching2018Joined Deutsche Telekom's Design Hub2018 SeptemberBecoming a lead designer has been the aim of my career for a while now, and with Deutsche Telekom it became a reality. I'm not ready to change my portfolio's color to #E20074 yet, though it's already pretty close ?workNew portfolio site2018 MayClean, simple, super focused. As all designers, I have not been satisfied with my portfolio page for longer than a month. So this facelift was well overdue. Also, check out the new Projects section!workportfolio2017Started teaching design2017 OctoberThe online design community is known for being open and helpful towards beginners. As a designer I always wanted to try my hands on teaching young people about design, so when Hellodesign reached out I immediately said yes. So I'm teaching now! ?teachingUstream became IBM Cloud Video2017 AprilAfter the IBM acquisition in January of 2016, the Budapest office of Ustream officially became part of IBM Cloud Video in April of 2017. IBM sounds boring? Think again!work2016Joined the Ustream team2016 SeptemberAs a part of a 9 person design team I get to work on projects for Ustream and IBM as well.workReleased MoveRite2016 AugustMoveRite is an iOS application for weight training. Together with my father we aim to help beginners learn the most important exercises thus preventing injuries.projectsworkcoding? I became a dad!!2016 JulyOur daughter Alíz was born on the 22nd of July.personalprojects2015Released Ravioli2015 NovemberRavioli was a simple menu bar application that let you quickly upload and share images with a short link. It was free and had no upload limits.projectsworkcodingJoined the SSP team2015 MaySecret Sauce Partners is a small startup, working on revolutionizing the fashion e-commerce business. I was invited to help them with UI and UX design, so decided to join their awesome team in 2015 May.workReleased the new GAget for macOS2015 MarchAfter 4 months of learning Swift, the new version of GAget for macOS was ready to be released. I published an article on Medium about the ups and downs of learning a new programming language and releasing an app as a designer.projectsworkcoding2014Started learning Swift2014 OctoberWith the release of Yosemite I wanted to give Swift a try as I was always interested in coding.personaleducationcodingRedesigned my website2014 JanuaryI got really tired of the skeuomorphic style of my previous portfolio, so in 2014 I decided to redesign my site.workportfolio2013Talked about “GAget for iPhone” at App! 2013 conference by hwsw2013 NovemberI was invited to talk about the design and development challanges of creating GAget for iPhone. You can listen to my 15 minute talk here in Hungarian.speakingteachingReleased GAget for iPhone2013 October2 years and 60 thousand downloads after the release of GAget for Mac OS X it was time to put the iPhone version into the hands of the public. With András Holló in 2013 october we released GAget for iPhone.projectsworkGraduated from BME (BUTE)2013 JulyWhile working full time at Arkon, I found some time to finish my thesis on social media marketing and graduate as an Engineering Manager from the biggest technical university of Hungary.personaleducationFounded the Arkon Design team2013 FebruaryThe company structure at Arkon for people working in a design-related field was kind of a headache. We had no clear place in the company, so with the help of the management and HR, Balázs Dömsödi and I started a self-managed design team at Arkon.work2012Talked about “Designing mobile interfaces as a web designer” at App! 2012 by HWSW2012 NovemberI had the chance to talk about designing for mobile based on my experience as a web designer.speakingteaching? Got married!2012 JulyAfter 5 years of falling in love and 2 years of being engaged I got married to the loveliest woman in my life, Ágota. And Cyprus turned out to be an awesome honeymoon destination! :)personalKöpönyeg for iPhone released2012 JulyThe first iPhone application I worked on got released after a couple of months of making hard design decisions, development and user testing.work2011Joined the Arkon team2011 NovemberAfter years of freelancing I decided to join the awesome team behind ingatlan.com, the biggest Hungarian real estate portal and Köpönyeg, a popular weather portal.workReleased GAget for Mac OS X2011 AugustThe Dashboard of OS X doesn't get much love from Apple and developers, but I believe it could be really useful if there were great widgets for it. That's why I developed GAget for Mac OS X, a Google Analytics widget for quick and easy access to the most important data of your GA account.projectsworkcodingRedesigned my portfolio2011 FebruaryThe skeuomorphism was really booming in 2011 so I was not going to be the one left out. A digitally drawn room, bookshelf on the wall, a drawing of myself, wooden buttons and flickering lamp lights were all essential parts of this fully skeuomorphic design. :)workportfolio2010Worked with Webness2010 MarchWorked on a couple of projects with Webness, a small Hungarian start-up company.workCreated Beatific template2010 FebruaryDesigned, coded and started selling my first Wordpress template ever, Beatific.projectsworkWorked with ÉnFotósom2007 - 2010Worked on lots of projects for ÉnFotósom, a small Hungarian company specialized in photography, print and web design.work2009Published my first freelance portfolio site2009 MarchAs my freelancing business started taking shape I had to have a website to collect my work.workportfolio2008Worked with GotFrag2006 - 2008Worked as an off-site designer for the California based eSports website GotFrag for two years. Basically at the time it was the most prestigious online publications about Counter-Strike.work2004Graduated from Piarist High School of Kecskemét2000 - 2004With the best classmates ever, I graduated in the class of 2004.personaleducation2000Launched my first websiteSomewhere in 2000I was always interested in the web so after borrowing a book from the library about HTML, I launched my first website, called 'Zolee Site Millenium'. The name seemed appropriate in 2000. :) Unfortunately I couldn't find any trace of it on the internet, so no screenshot...workportfolio1985? Came into this world1985 SeptemberI was born in Budapest, as the first child of a small, but loving family.personalWell, this is my story. Want to be part of it? Say hi!