Yianni Canatselis
Open to design roles · Adelaide
Digital designer with a tester’s eye
for where users struggle.
5+ years in software testing and customer support, now with a Graduate Certificate in UX. Shipped Ónoma, an iOS app for Greek namedays.
start here – no bugs found (yet)
My Work
Ónoma
End-to-end design of an iOS and web app helping the Greek community track namedays - informed by research and built using AI assisted workflows.
Daily Readings
A redesign of a mobile app supporting daily Orthodox faith practices, informed by user research, usability testing, and iterative prototyping across iPhone and iPad.
JP Physiotherapy
End-to-end website design for a local physiotherapy practice, helping a solo practitioner establish a professional online presence and make booking and contact straightforward.
About me
Testing taught me how products break. Support taught me how that feels. Now I design so people don’t have to find out.
I started out in psychology, then spent 5+ years in software testing and customer support: catching bugs before release, and talking to the people who ran into the ones that slipped through. That pulled me into UX, and I’ve since completed a Graduate Certificate in UX Design at Torrens University.
That background still shapes how I work. I map the unhappy paths as well as the happy one, design error and empty states early, and put prototypes in front of real people before anything ships.
Outside of design, I’m usually reading about history, planning the next overseas trip, or listening to a Michael Jackson album.
- Based in
- Adelaide, Australia
- Tools
- Figma, Framer, Dovetail, Claude Code
- Now
- Open to design roles · resume on request
Experience
- Jun 2025 – Present
Freelance
Digital Designer
Designing websites and digital products for clients, from brief through to launch across web and mobile. Researched, designed, built and released Ónoma on the App Store, now past 100 downloads with a 4.9-star rating.
- Dec 2022 – Feb 2023
RAA
Digital Intern
Eight-week placement in the Digital Member Engagement team across product, design and insights, including insurance quote journeys and a business case presented to stakeholders.
- Oct 2021 – May 2024
Rapid Global
Test Analyst
UX/UI, integration and regression testing on desktop and mobile work health and safety software. Tested end-to-end customer journeys in weekly sprints and ran heuristic evaluations to catch usability issues before they reached customers.
- Jan 2021 – Nov 2022
GCanatselis Photography
Photo Editor & Event Support
Edited large sets of wedding and event photography in Lightroom and Photoshop, and helped with lighting and setup on location. Still ad hoc in 2026.
- Feb 2019 – Sept 2021
Rapid Global
Client Services Professional
Front-line phone and email support for workplace health and safety software, handling 20–30 calls a day. Wrote help documentation and trained new starters.
Volunteering
- 2025 – Present
Greek Welfare Centre SA
Volunteer
Delivering meals to clients through the Greek Meals Service (the part I enjoy most), plus data entry and record keeping for the centre.
Education
- 2025
Torrens University Australia
Graduate Certificate of UX Design
High Distinction.
- 2018 – 2021
The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Psychological Science (Marketing)
Distinction.