Dragan Babic, digital product designer

Being a designer, and a partner in a design studio means I spend every day switching from the two contexts of individual contribution on one side, and mentorship / management / bizdev, on the other.

If I had to simplify what I do, I’d say I help people make stuff.

Having been a part of many projects — be it as a designer, a developer, and even as a founder — has given me a tremendously valuable vantage point towards digital product design and management.

This enables me to understand the needs of stakeholders I work with more clearly, communicate more effectively across teams, and take products through creation, adoption, and ongoing optimization and development.

Place of residence:

Novi Sad, Serbia.

Skills:

Digital product design, UI design, UX design, people.

Years of experience:

16 and counting.

Highlights

Opening up a skate shop in 2000 without any prior work experience at all, or an idea about how to manage supply or turn a profit.

Being headhunted by Facebook for a job before it was a huge evil company (I didn’t get it).

Founding a digital product design studio, humbly naming it “Superawesome”, and somehow keeping it afloat ever since 2007.

Funding and building a digital product people were willing to pay for. It was a freelancer's CRM/gig management tool called Funnel, and later sold it.

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All content by Dragan Babic. Portrait photo by Andrija Kovač.