Nickolas Kola

Product, UX & Usability Testing Lead

About

A product, experience design and usability leader with over a decade of experience driving innovation across global startups, agencies and multi-national corporations.

I have designed web and application experiences for some of the largest companies in the world: over a dozen websites for Microsoft, multiple sites for Starbucks, large scale web-apps for the California Government and multiple mobile applications for startups.

Passionate usability testing advocate, I have sold thousands of hours of usability testing to corporations. My constant pursuit of efficiency led me to redefine how usability testing is conducted, enabling teams to conduct scalable unmoderated research and gather meaningful data and insights in the most efficient ways possible.

My goal is to leave the experience design landscape more efficient than when I joined.

Case Studies

Microsoft Blogs >

Designed and redesigned 15+ Microsoft blogs with over a million monthly page-views.

2024

Microsoft Usability Testing >

Developed, and administered, the current usability testing framework in use by Microsoft.

2022 – 2024

Calmatters

Digital Democracy >

Led the design of the Digital Democracy platform for CalMatters

2024

Desktop HD

Stanford Medicine Magazine >

Led the redesign of the Stanford Medicine magazine website.

2023

Tripcash >

Product design for Fintech startup liberating users from traditional banking limitations.

2018

Experience

November 2024 – Present

BlockPattern

Founder & Lead Researcher

Remote ~ Sydney

April 2024 – November 2024

10up, LLC

Lead UX Designer, User Research & Testing

Remote ~ US

March 2021 – March 2024

10up, LLC

Lead UX Designer

Remote ~ US

June 2021 – September 2023

the Product Agency

Lead UX & Product Designer

Remote ~ Sydney

December 2020 – March 2021

Hanes Group

Lead UX Designer

Remote ~ Sydney

July 2016 – July 2018

TripCash

Principal Product Designer

Remote ~ Shanghai

January 2011

Kola Consulting

Founder & Principal Designer

Remote ~ Sydney

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