About Me

I enjoy solving complex problems using my analytical skills and empathy, aiming to make things more clear, comfortable, and aesthetic.

  • 6 years of design experience, with 4 years in product design
  • Creating user-centered SaaS apps for fintech, AI, web3, and data analytics
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams via iterative design process
  • Research background and deep understanding of development process
Skills
  • User interface (UI)
  • User experience (UX)
  • UX research
  • User interviews
  • Information architecture
  • User flows
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Usability testing
  • Visual design
  • Design systems
  • AI prompting
Tools
  • Figma
  • Webflow
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • AfterEffects
Languages
  • English - Advanced
  • Spanish - Intermediate
  • Ukrainian, Russian - Native

Experience

Product Designer / Oxolo
Apr 2024 – Sep 2024, Hamburg, Germany (remote)
  • Led the AI video creation team’s design initiatives, conducting UX audits, user interviews with B2B clients, facilitating workshops with cross-functional teams, and iterating on the key user flows to reduce churn rate
  • Contributed to establishing design processes, creating and implementing a design system and setting up user research workflows
  • Conducted B2C user interviews, facilitated workshops, created and tested prototypes as part of pivoting to a new product concept
  • Participated in hiring efforts for product designers, conducting interviews and assessments to support team growth
Founding Product Designer / Graffe
Dec 2022 – Dec 2023, Antwerp, Belgium (remote)
  • Designed an MVP for a collaborative web data visualization tool from scratch and contributed to shaping the product vision
  • Strategized and executed all stages of iterative design process, including B2B and B2C user interviews, workshops facilitation, ideation, prototyping, usability testing, creating and maintaining a design system, and reviewing the implementation of key user flows
UI/UX Designer / Sonorus
Sep 2022 – Oct 2022, Shanghai, China (remote)
  • Designed a dashboard and associated user flows for a new artist role on a web3 music platform, working closely with the development team
Founding Product Designer / Attrace
Oct 2020 – Aug 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands (remote)
  • Created an MVP for a CRM web app tailored to a new consultant role within a blockchain-based affiliate marketing ecosystem
  • Built a decentralized web app for referral marketing in web3 – the NFT & DeFi referral marketplace, encompassing 4 types of tokenized assets and 3 user roles – from scratch
  • Redesigned the decentralized app conceptually and visually to align with the updated value proposition of the referral farming and staking web3 platform, resulting in an increase in conversion rate from 4% to 10%
  • Led the entire iterative design process in close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including UX research, B2C user interviews, ideation, prototyping, usability testing, creating and maintaining design systems, and reviewing UI design implementation
Product Designer / Qubstudio
Oct 2020 – Mar 2022, Lviv, Ukraine (remote)
  • Worked on Attrace’s products; conducted knowledge sharing sessions, collaborated with colleagues to enhance the studio's fintech expertise, participated in presales activities
Graphic Designer / Freelance
Oct 2018 – Sep 2020, Worldwide (remote)
  • Created branding, packaging, book covers, and other graphic design assets for clients in Australia, the Bahamas, Denmark, Latvia, Slovakia, the UK, and the USA
Lead Researcher / National Aviation University
Jan 2018 – Jul 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Guided students and scholars in establishing their research processes

Education

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
2008 – 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Ph.D. in World Economy and International Economic Relations
  • B.S., M.S. in International Economic Relations, Interpreter from English