Product Designer · Fintech · Payments · Design Systems

Ioanna Zarkadoula

Product Designer for fintech and payment products — from discovery and research through production interfaces and engineering handoff.

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Ioanna Zarkadoula

Product Designer

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Practice

Areas of Practice

Product Design

Product discovery, UX strategy, user research, information architecture, user flows, interaction design, wireframing, high-fidelity prototyping, design systems, accessibility (WCAG).

Fintech

Payment products, merchant experience, payment flows, onboarding, PSD2, KYC / AML, 3DS, open banking.

Collaboration

Product thinking, cross-functional collaboration, developer handoff, Agile (Scrum), design reviews.

Technical

Figma, HTML, CSS, Java, GitHub.

Experience

Experience

  • End-to-end product design for fintech applications across web and mobile, with Project Managers and Engineers from discovery through delivery.
  • Primary Product Designer across multiple initiatives — owning UX/UI decisions against customer needs, accessibility, business priorities and technical feasibility.
  • Payment experiences, merchant tools, onboarding, dashboards and developer-facing platforms for Worldline, Euronet, Cardlink, Nexi, EDPS and NBG Payments.
  • Design systems and component libraries in Figma to improve consistency and engineering collaboration.
  • Applied PSD2, KYC, 3DS and WCAG 2.1 requirements to simplify complex financial workflows.
  • Production-ready prototypes and developer specifications within short product cycles.

Education

Education

2024 — Present

Mediterranean College (University of Derby)

BSc (Hons) Computer Science · Expected 2027

2021 — 2023

IEK Delta

Diploma in Graphic Design

Credentials

Certifications

  • Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design · Google
  • Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes · Google
  • Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, Ideate · Google
  • Vellum Web and E-Shop Certificate · Vellum

Languages — Greek: Native · English: B2