Goce Mitevski
About
Goce Mitevski is a designer and software engineer from Skopje, North Macedonia, with decades of experience in the field. He is passionate about User Experience (UX) design, User Interface (UI) design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), technology, software development, illustration and minimalism. Goce works on a variety of projects — from visual design to full-featured websites and web applications with microservice and microfront-end architectures.
Goce’s professional background bridges high-level business strategy with deep technical design, having served as a former Chief Technology Officer and Chief Design Officer. He offers a rare dual-lens perspective, aligning technical architecture with core business strategy to drive sustainable value.
As a big supporter of free and open technologies, Goce Mitevski has created designs for Mozilla, Canonical, Ubuntu Mate, Free Software Macedonia and actively contributes to the Mozilla and WordPress communities in North Macedonia.
In 2010, Goce Mitevski had his share in the first local TED event in Macedonia – TEDxSkopje, with an inspiring speech called “Graphs for the World – A Lesson for Myself”.
He is the Founder of Contest Watchers, occasionally writes for popular online design magazines, and showcases many personal projects on various online design networks.
Experience
- Founder @ Contest Watchers
- Chief Technology Officer @ Keitaro
- Chief Design Officer @ Keitaro
- User Experience Designer @ Inter IKEA
- Multidisciplinary Designer @ Self-employed
- Representative for Macedonia @ Mozilla
- Web Designer @ OnTheGoSystems
- Web and Graphic Designer @ IntraNow Limited
Awards
- Digital Applications Jury – European Design Awards 2025
Articles
- SVG, Animation, Blur, Firefox and an Ubuntu Advertisement – Medium
- Random Redirection In WordPress – Smashing Magazine
- Creating Graphs With Adobe Illustrator – Smashing Magazine
Talks & Presentations
- System Architecture Lead by User Experience – UXplore 2023, Netaville, Skopje [Video]
- Why contribute to open source projects? – Hacktoberfest 2017, Public Room – Centre for design and innovation, Skopje
- Firefox Quantum Sprint (in Macedonian), KIKA hacklab, Skopje
- Everything you wanted to know about Front-end development, but had no one to ask (in Macedonian) – DIGIT, Impact Hub Skopje
- Front-end Development Work Positions – Front-end Meetup Skopje, KIKA hacklab
- The Future of Web Design – Code Talks – Prilep
- The Front-end Development Workflow – EESTEC Code Up Level Up 3, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE), Skopje
- GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP) HTML5/JS – Front-end Meetup Skopje, KIKA hacklab
- Introducing Firefox OS – Mobile AppCamp Macedonia 2013
- Graphs For The World – A Lesson For Myself – TEDxSkopje 2010