Giulia Di Dio Balsamo
About Giulia Di Dio Balsamo
Giulia Di Dio Balsamo is a Senior Product Designer currently working at Sinch in Stockholm, Sweden. With a background in architecture and extensive experience in user experience design, she has contributed to various organizations, improving product performance through research and prototyping.
Work at Sinch
Giulia Di Dio Balsamo has been employed at Sinch as a Senior Product Designer since 2022. In this role, she organizes alignment workshops to promote collaborative ideation among designers. She utilizes her expertise in UX and visual design to ensure compliance with Accessibility WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Giulia employs agile tools such as Jira and Github to improve communication between design and development teams. Her work focuses on enhancing user experience through effective design strategies.
Previous Experience in User Experience Design
Before joining Sinch, Giulia worked at Etraveli Group as a User Experience Designer from 2020 to 2022. She contributed to improving e-commerce product performance by leveraging UX research insights and prototyping. Prior to that, she served as a Prototyping and Usability Testing Educator at Changemaker Educations for nine months in 2020. Her experience also includes roles as a Lead UX Designer at Hollbium and as a UX Designer at Stagecast AB and Optimus in 2019.
Education and Expertise
Giulia holds a degree in Environmental Design/Architecture from Università di Catania, where she graduated with 110/110 cum laude. She studied at the National Technical University of Athens, participating in an Erasmus exchange program focused on Architecture. Additionally, she completed a UX Designer program at Skillcrush in 2019. Giulia is proficient in various UX tools, including Figma, and teaches digital prototyping and usability testing to students.
Background in Architecture
Giulia has a background in architecture, having worked as an Architect of the archaeological excavation at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' from 2012 to 2014. She also held positions as a Junior Architect at MANDAWORKS and as an Architect at Spacescape in 2018. Her international experience includes working with NEXT architects in the Netherlands for six months in 2016. This diverse background informs her approach to design and user experience.
Mentoring and Teaching
Giulia actively mentors individuals in their UX journeys, sharing insights and guidance in the field. She teaches digital prototyping and usability testing to approximately 30 students, emphasizing practical skills and methodologies. Her commitment to education extends to facilitating workshops for design sprints and business models, where she employs qualitative research tools to gather insights and enhance learning outcomes.