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Levi Csanyi

Design Strategy | Innovation | Leadership

  • Name: Levente Csanyi

  • Email: levi.design.ux@gmail.com

  • Address: 19895 Alderwood Circle Bend, OR 97702​​

  • Phone: 781 346 3541

  • 25+ years of experience in user-centered design from high-level processes to design delivery

  • Proven track record driving highly complex projects across different business units and disciplines

  • Solid expertise in implementing cutting-edge technology in both fast-moving and highly innovative agile or lean environments

  • Strong leadership and organizational skills: coaching and mentoring designer teams in both UX and UI design

  • Excellent business partnering skills providing first-class services across different countries

Experience

Modular Product Lab, Bend, OR
Co-founder

23. Oct 2020 - 
Present

Modular Product Lab empowers leaders to deliver inspired products. We specialize in taking concepts to final product, through a deep understanding of users. Our methods are rooted in a modular framework that helps us deliver compelling products.

More details at Modularproductlab.com

AI 4 Design Strategies, Bend, OR
Principal

02. Dec 2019 -
23. Oct 2020

  • Built my first company to disrupt a $3 billion industry

  • Enabled delivering design strategy and components faster than the competition by leveraging AI and ML solutions

  • This company became an active part of Modular Product Lab

Amplion, Bend, OR
Director of User Experience

18. Marc 2019 - 
25. Nov 2019

  • Built and led the design team for an agile startup company

  • Designed and released a foundation for a new product platform for Diagnostic and Pharma companies to expand their business by understanding a complex-big data field of biomarker evidence leveraging Natural Language Processing

  • Developed qualitative and quantitative research to support Product strategy with data-based insights

  • Orchestrated standards, organized in Design Systems, Personas, and backend enabler Information Architecture

  • Delivered hands-on functioning prototypes, organized by Jira tickets with product and dev team to enable agile work with a quick turnaround time

WuXi NextCODE, Cambridge, MA
Product Manager

01. Sept 2018 -
31. Dec 2018

  • Released the first version of PhenoCODE, which enables pharmaceutical companies, bioinformaticians, population geneticists to discover biomarkers, drugs or define cohorts

  • Defined and prioritized DiscoveryCODE user stories and features to delight customers

  • Designed new architecture for Phenotype Catalog to enable researchers to explore UK Biobank and other phenotypic and multi-omic data

WuXi NextCODE, Cambridge, MA
Senior User Experience Architect

25. Oct 2017 -
01. Sept 2018

  • Designed Modular Platform for pharmaceutical and clinical use

  • Consolidated artifact delivery system across different disciplines

  • Conducted user interviews and competitive research to redefine personas, product goals

  • Analyzed best in class AI solutions to surface results for consumers

ORACLE, Cambridge, MA
Principal User Experience Designer

05. Nov 2015 -
09. Sept 2017

  • Created high quality and intuitive design and user flows

  • Delivered wireframes and interactive prototypes for Big Data Discovery, Data Intelligence, and Analytics Cloud

  • Redesigned data wrangling framework (Transform) for Big Data Discovery, along with complex functions like aggregate, join datasets for data scientists

  • Developed SaaS standards and made it accessible to for others through widget libraries

  • Organized and executed usability tests

  • Coordinated product usage analytics solutions, collaborated 3rd party solutions

  • Invented machine learning and rule-based recommendations for Analytics Cloud

Graphisoft North America, Waltham, MA
Design Consultation & Technical Support

01. July 2013 -
04. Jan 2015

  • Managed client relationship and ensured clients’ needs are met

  • Cooperated with different business units at headquarters funneling field info from the field by building an information bridge using Salesforce, Navision, TestTrack and delivered visual reports to executives

  • Demonstrated products & solutions online and live in front of a 300+ audience in Las Vegas and ABX Boston conferences

  • Developed training on world-leading BIM Cloud Server, ArchiCAD, BIMx and chaired user group meetings as well as design council

Graphisoft R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Design Director (Product Design IV)

2009 - 2012

  • Directed and maintained ArchiCAD UI and BIM Cloud consistency

  • Led professional designers

  • Coached and hired junior designers

  • Designed BIMx - Integrated, context-sensitive 2D & 3D building project navigation, which help even non-professionals find their way in a full BIM project (nominated as best app for architects, released on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows).

Graphisoft R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Lead Designer

2004 - 2009

  • Established UX Design for ArchiCAD. Main projects ArchiCAD Project Navigator, Toolbox, hierarchical element editing – complex problems, primary user interface elements, elegant and simple solutions.

  • Updated 3D Navigation design based on User Research conducted with INTERFACE (heart rate variability measuring user monitoring system). Optimized the design for Oculus Rift VR glasses

  • Coordinated iOS, Android projects – released the first version of BIMx

  • Performed market research, competitor analysis, user consultations

Graphisoft R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Product Designer

2000 - 2004

  • Developed UI/UX design, interaction plans, cognitive walkthroughs, heuristic evaluations, workflow analysis to make easy to use solutions

  • End to end design with research of Graphisoft ArchiCAD and BIMx 3D Navigation interface on desktop – introduced game like navigation into the CAD industry

  • Interviewed customers, usability tests using Morae

  • Invented Project Navigator, which helps to organize plans and creates comprehensive documentation

  • Redesigned Toolbox – primer UI built into a highly customizable work environment system, with detailed iconography

Graphisoft R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Human Interface Designer

1997 - 2000

  • Planned complex functions, like DXF converter

  • Designed graphical user interface elements – UI plans were developed in Photoshop for functions and other major components

  • Designed, delivered, and draw iconography on paper and on digital art-board to express complex functions in a small environment

Education

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

1994 - 2000

MSC Industrial Design Engineering

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

1993 - 2002

MSC STEM Teacher

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

1991 - 1997

MSC Mechanical Engineering

Major of Production Systems

Courses and Teaching

ADPList, online

2021 - present

Mentoring 
Product Design, Product Management, Leadership

University of California, San Francisco

2018 - 2020

Genomic and Precision Medicine 

Credential ID NAPCF54Q5Q3S

Aquincum Institute of Technology, Hungary

2010 - 2012

Product Design and Ergonomics 

Gave seminars about Usability to undergraduates

​UX, UI Conferences & User Visits

  • UX Summit Oracle, 2017 San Francisco

  • BIM Conference 2015, Las Vegas

  • NN/g Usability Week 2012, Edinburgh

  • NN/g User Experience 2006, Seattle

  • CHI 2004, Vienna, CHI 2000, The Hague, CHI 1999, Pittsburgh, CHI 1998, Los Angeles

  • SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio

  • 2004 Project Management Training, Szinergia Ltd.

  • 1996 Engineering management seminar

  • SUNY Buffalo University and Technical University of Budapest, Balatonvilágos - TQM, accountancy, finances​

Skills

  • Languages

    • English - fluent

    • Hungarian – native 

 

  • Professional

    • Product Management

    • User Experience and User Interface Design

    • Research, Usability testing, Workflow analysis

    • Team Building, Hiring, Mentoring and Coaching

    • Wireframing, Redlining, Prototyping

    • Standardization by creating Design Systems or incorporating native platforms' MacOS/Windows/iOS, Android

    • Agile, Lean Product delivery methods

    • Information Architecture

    • Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

  • Computing

    • Axure, Sketch, Figma, inVision, Balsamiq, Omnigraffle

    • Photoshop, Adobe CS all elements

    • Jira, TestTrack, Asana, Trello

    • Trifacta Wrangler, Oracle BI, DataViz, Alteryx, Tableau, R

    • Salesforce, Navision, HubSpot

    • ArchiCAD, Revit, SketchUp, 3D Studio

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Last updated: Mar 23, 2025

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