CV

Stefanos Monastiridis

DESIGN ENGINEER. BRUSSELS. STEFANOS@STMN-DESIGN.COM 0032485654553 STMN-DESIGN.COM

Work Experience

UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN - 2026

Guest Design Researcher in the Department of Product and System Design Engineering. BLUEPRINT  research project. Responsible for defining the design framework of its digital platform. The design framework sets the guardrails that ensure accessibility and equal use. Spare time project between March and July 2026.

MOVIFY 2023 - 2025

 UX, Design Systems and Accessibility consultant. Appointed to large organisations to help them evolve their digital infrastructure.

  • I set the foundations of BPOST design system acting as its owner and designer. WRAP DS supports designers and engineers to deliver applications for consumers, operations and retail. 
  • Also for BPOST, I conducted accessibility audits and evaluation of their accessibility capabilities, delivering a roadmap of short-term fixes and long-term skill development.
  • For STANLEY/STELLA, I redesigned and deployed in Sharepoint the next generation of their Intranet in co-creation with their employees.
  • Internally, I was a design system mentor and participated as a speaker in two company-organised panels about Design and AI. 

NAMAHN 2015 - 2023

UX Lead, Design Systems / Ops expert. Worked in numerous complex cases across industries in various capacities. Some examples:

  • Design System work (UI Design, DS Architecture, coaching) for FLUXYS, EUROCONTROL, BOREALIS and INFRABEL.
  • UX/UI design for TERUMO EMEA, several projects. Coorporate website design (Terumo EMEA and Terumo Pharmaceutical ), applications for info kiosks and sales representatives.
  • UX Lead in industrial automation projects. Designed software for safer process monitoring, enabling faster reaction to alerts and alarms for its operators (CARMEUSE). Designed a next-generation concept for self-driving forklifts. Our goal was to increase trust in automation by human co-workers and enable faster troubleshooting and maintenance (DEMATIC).
  • Design Strategy for EVS in becoming more customer-centric and design-driven, establishing design as a key operation from 0 to 1 in product development.
  • Service Design for Brussels Airport Company around safety and security. I introduced service blueprinting as an approach to understand, evaluate, and improve security operations.
  • Systemic design and research for the European Commission, MSF, IKEA Foundation, and Council of Europe.
  • Internally, I was a design operations manager and systemic design researcher with publications and participations in various conferences. I also worked in various trainings as a facilitator and course designer.

Education & certificates

  • Accessibility professional (CPACC) - IAAP
  • SCRUM Product Owner (PSPO I) - SCRUM.ORG
  • MSc Service Systems Design - Aalborg University
  • BEng Products and Systems Design Engineering - University of Aegean.

Skills & tooling

AI Integration, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Design System Management, Design Systems, Design Tokens, Product Design, Systemic Design, Systems Thinking, UI/UX Design, User Experience, UX Leadership, User research, Accessibility, Design Operations, Co-design, HTML/CSS/JS, Information Architecture, Front-end Frameworks, Data Visualisation, Prototyping, Usability Testing.

Figma, Tokens Studio, Zeroheight, Supernova, VS Code, Github Co-pilot, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Webflow, Airtable, Storybook, Git, Vercel, Supabase.

Languages

  • Greek - Native
  • English - Professional
  • French - Fluent
  • Italian - Advanced

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