Patrik Bevec

A problem-solver at heart, I thrive on making things better through logical thinking, creativity, and high-ownership leadership. As a Product Design Lead and Senior Designer with a decade of experience, I specialize in scaling complex healthcare platforms, driving product strategy, and designing medical AI workflows that integrate seamlessly into clinical practices. I enjoy mentoring designers, aligning cross-functional teams, and ensuring the absolute highest standards in user experience.

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Experience

Design Team Lead

Mediately, Ljubljana (Nov 2022 - present)

Leading the design team for one of Europe's most widely used clinical decision-support platforms, driving product vision, multi-market design strategy, and medical-grade UX quality across 14 countries.

Medical-Grade UX Craft: Designed complex clinical workflows focused on safety, precision, and tight contextual integration, purposely moving away from generic consumer chat templates.

Cross-Functional Scale: Led alignment across Design, Engineering, QA, and Product to scale the AI tool internationally, achieving 60,000+ clinical questions in the first week of launch and a 65% monthly retention rate in the test group.

Design Operations: Established formal cross-functional processes including user research (UXR), design reviews, UX writing, design system reviews, and competitor analysis to systematically raise craft and impact.

Business Alignment: Partnered closely with Product and Engineering, Leadership (CEO, CPO, CTO) to define roadmap priorities, drive freemium conversion strategies, and maintain overall brand consistency.

Service Design Lecturer

Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana (2023 - present)

Lead the Service Design course for Master’s students of Industrial Design, developing curriculum, delivering lectures, and facilitating intensive design workshops.

Thesis & Diploma Mentor: Actively mentor both Bachelor and Master students through their final theses, guiding them from initial research and system strategy to successful defense and execution.

Assist in the Industrial Design Seminar, fostering critical thinking and creative problem-solving across undergraduate and graduate levels.

Lead Designer, Design Team Lead

Better, Electronic Health Record (Feb 2020 - Nov 2022)

Design Team Leadership: Built a high-performing team of product designers, establishing strong operational frameworks and workflow reviews.

Mission-Critical UX: Executed deep user research, strategic interface architecture, and iterative usability testing for high-stakes healthcare environments where software precision impacts patient safety.

Product Discovery: Led comprehensive product discovery initiatives and synthesized complex user needs into strategic design proposals that defined new product opportunities.

Regulated Compliance: Maintained strict alignment with Product Management and Engineering to ensure all interfaces met complex medical regulations, security standards, and technical constraints.

Lead Designer, Senior Designer

Hisense Gorenje, Washing machines (Nov 2017 - Nov 2020)

End-to-End Design Initiatives: Drove product design initiatives entirely from initial discovery through to final manufacturing delivery, partnering intimately with Product Management and Engineering.

Hybrid UX Architecture: Conducted extensive user research, usability testing, and strict concept validation to design complex interfaces across both physical control panels and companion digital screens.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Successfully delivered high-volume, consumer-facing products by balancing user-centered design principles with rigorous technical constraints and mass-manufacturing standards.

Hardware/Software Alignment: Collaborated closely with hardware engineers to ensure that material constraints, ergonomics, and production capabilities enhanced the final digital interaction layer.

Designer & CAD Specialist

IB-Caddy (Oct 2016 - Nov 2017)

Enterprise Consulting & Training: Developed and delivered advanced training programs in 3D modeling, surfacing, and rendering to engineers from leading industrial companies.

Certified SolidWorks Expert: Acted as an official SolidWorks support specialist, diagnosing and solving complex CAD, modeling, and workflow bottlenecks for corporate engineering teams.

Additive Manufacturing Expert: Served as the official technical support specialist and application engineer for Formlabs 3D printers, advising clients on rapid prototyping and material limitations.

In-House Design: Acted as the company's internal designer, developing rendering software.