Portfolio of Damir Kotorić

NSW Climate Data Portal

Big data
Government
Design systems
Remote user testing

Designing an open data portal for the New South Wales Government. Petabytes of climate data made available to Australian businesses and the general public.

Payments at Booking.com

eCommerce
Corporate
Payments
Remote user testing

Designing the future payment experience for millions of customers in 191 countries around the world.

Booking.com Conversion Rate Optimisation

eCommerce
CRO
Web performance
Accessibility

Increasing conversion by tens of millions of euros per year at Booking.com HQ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The details of this work are confidential.

Design Sprint at Envato

Design sprint
eCommerce

Innovating at a company closing in on USD $1 billion in community revenue, in Melbourne, Australia.

Geological Survey of Queensland Open Data Portal

Big data
Government
Design systems
Prototyping

Making petabytes of geological survey data available for the mining industry in Queensland, Australia.

UX bootcamp
Teaching
Mentoring

Kickstarting 18 new design careers in Melbourne, Australia.

Damir has excellent design acumen (in and outside of code), an uncompromising dedication to ethics, and a drive to elevate products to their greatest potential.

Christopher Sledge UX Designer at Booking.com

Boston North End Public Art

AR
Mobile
Digital humanities
Prototyping

Turning an iconic Boston neighbourhood into an open-air museum, powered by AR.

Giza AR

AR
Design sprint
Digital humanities
Harvard University

Creating an AR "window into the past" at the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt.

Ideaverse

Machine learning
Startup
Design sprint
Prototyping

Helping a Berlin based machine learning startup go from vague product idea to high-fidelity prototype in two weeks.

Chatbot Learning App for iOS

Conversational UI
Startup
Design sprint
L&D

Setting the design foundation for a conversational UI experience.

Storyverse

Conceptual design
Side project
AR & exploration

Dreaming up a concept for a story discovery app.

Event Management App

Conceptual design
Mobile design
Prototyping
Event planning

An app designed to help event managers organise with more ease and less chaos.

Damir is highly empathetic and measured which made him an excellent mentor and guide to others in their UX journey.

Matthew McCrae Johnson Program Producer at General Assembly

New Alexandria

Digital humanities
Harvard University
Publishing platform

Designing an open, peer-reviewed, and accessible platform for commentaries of ancient texts.

Cosmitto

Comparison Site
Search Design
Responsive Web Design

Leading a complete ground-up design for a corporate training comparison site for Australia and New Zealand.

AI Design Generator

Machine learning
Design sprint
Startup
Prototyping

An exploration into the future of creative work. One where the computer is more akin to a colleague than passive tool.

Zhejiang University Museum AR

Digital humanities
AR
Mobile
Prototype

Designing a captivating AR experience for a brand new archaeology museum in Zheijiang, China.

Damir is a one-of-a-kind excellent designer with a real sense for product: An unbeatable match, making it very satisfying to have been able to work together.

Roelof Pieters CEO at creative.ai

Oracy

Personal project
Design
Full stack development
Audio

Free public domain audiobooks available for listening in a streamlined, simple UI. Oracy is a side project I designed and developed.

Parthenon AR App

AR
Conceptual design
Digital humanities

Conceptual design for an AR app guiding visitors on a tour through the past at the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.

Orpheus

Product strategy
Conceptual design
Digital humanities
Prototyping
Design system
Front end development

Leading product strategy and design on a new digital archiving tool for a humanities startup in Cambridge, USA.

Historic Blenheim AR

AR
Conceptual design
Digital humanities

An app revealing inscriptions, dating back to the 20th century, invisible to the naked eye and made visible thanks to laser scanning and AR.

Damir is one of the best designers I've worked with in my 10+ year career as a web developer. He inherently understands the technicality of front end development, empathizes with the user, and cuts straight through to value for client and user. He is multi-talented and I would recommend him for product, design, or front-end development.

Daniel Rekshan Fine artist and web developer at Archimedes Digital

Tripureshwor Web 360° Tour

Digital humanities
Web 360°
Conceptual design

Conceptual design for the digital preservation of one of Nepal's cultural treasures.

Giza Virtual Tours

Digital humanities
Web 360°
AR
VR
Smart watch

Conceptual design for an exploration of the Giza plateau in VR, web, iOS and Apple Watch.

Archimedes Digital Website

Digital humanities
Web design
Web performance
SEO

A showcase of innovative work on the crossroads of humanities and tech for an agency in Cambridge, USA.

Unstock

eCommerce
Design sprint
Prototyping

A beautiful stock photo marketplace created in a design sprint. Converted 40x better than the previous product.

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