Here is a bit about my work life and standpoints. Long story short, I love our craft. Long story long is below.
Bio
How does a color laugh? Hue hue hue. Huge part of my work is contributing to #dad-jokes channels at work.
Anyhow, throughout the years I’ve worked with idea-to-prototype startups, early market, hyper-growth and mature companies alike. Some of the companies I worked with as an in-house Product Designer are Hopin, Teamwork and Datacamp.
I love both making and research and usually oversee the process e2e. My favourite frameworks are continuous discovery and Lean UX: on point, efficient and outcome driven.
Data assists my product practice, and one of my recent endeavors is studying SQL hands-on and getting familiar with the technicalities of Machine Learning and AI.
I draw inspiration from a blend of psychology, neuroscience, behavioral, cognitive design, gamification, and apply these methods in user experience. My background allows me to assess human side of things alongside business needs. I’m a process and operational thinker and I often contribute to operational side of product and research.
As designers we should design for implications, not applications – Dunne and Ruby, Speculative everything
Love the questions themselves – Rainer Maria Rilke
Experience
September 2022 – December 2023
Datacamp – Senior Product Designer
Building core Learn experience of Datacamp. Highlights: increased user activation, increased discovery to enrolment rate, UX research infrastructure setup for the team.
July 2021 – August 2022
Hopin – Senior Product Designer
Building a platform for collaborative virtual events. Highlights: acquisition increased via event program setup, captured new customer segment.
June 2018 – July 2021
Teamwork – Product Designer
Working on productivity and collaboration tools for teams. Highlights: created video call app from scratch, workflow automations to target churn.
2014 – 2018
Freelancer – Product and Business Designer
Clients: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona City Council, CityMart, Viguera Editores and others. Highlights: led EU funding application for digital manufacturing platform and idea-to-prototype stage of EU incubator.
Degrees
MSc – Cultural and Creative management
University of Bologna, School of Economics. Thesis: Legal aspects of digital communication in culture and the arts.
2011 – 2014
BA – Anthropology and Philology
Saint Petersburg State University
2007 – 2011
Lifelong learning
Various Data Science courses and skill tracks: SQL, ML theory (Datacamp)
Understanding the brain: Neurobiology (Coursera – Michigan University)
Serious gaming (Coursera – Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Cultivating Creative Collaboration (Ideo U)
HCI: Brain and Technology (Interaction Design Foundation)
UX strategy & management (IDF)
UX Research at scale (Edx – Michigan University)
Designing for adoption and appropriation (IDF)
Introduction to Psychology (Coursera – Yale)
and more 🤓