Position: Senior UX designer, Product Designer, Design Lead
Category: Design
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 5

- Once, I designed (and printed) a Monopoly game in a few hours to be in time before my friends arrived. I didn't want to play the russian version we had, so we created our own. Ancient civilizations, if you were wondering.

- Once upon a time, we took the decision with my PO to redesign a core product feature. Not a single person supported that. The culture in that company was so open that everyone who stopped by, from salespeople to the chief of product did not hesitate to remind us that we shouldn't waste our time, and look, here are so many more important tasks to do. 
After a few months under such pressure, that redesign was completed and it was a complete success. Product metrics went up to the sky (and everyone shut up), and we got the job done.

- And a boring one: User segmentation performed by the team I led was later applied to the strategic company direction.
I am that designer who believes a better digital experience can improve the quality of life. And my background in UX Research and Social Sciences gives me more power to do that. 

Having experience working with both:
- Big corporations and startup-like companies;
- Product companies and outsourcing agencies;
- Leading design teams and working solo;
- B2B apps in complex domains with a lack of users and B2C products with millions of them;

Some of my current responsibilities:
- Managing a design team of 5
- Working closely with Stakeholders and Dev Team 
- Conducting full cycle design activities: 
Requirements collection, UX review, Roadmapping, 
User research and prototyping, UX artefacts and UI design, 
Handover to Dev team and implementation, Post-Analytics.

I see the UX person's role as a good communicator with creativity and some drawing skills. 
UX design, to me, is about building a relationship between a digital product and its customer. That is why I focused on communication from requirements collection to user testing and design handover and implementation support.
I feel comfortable working with complex domains and companies that understand the value of good UX.

I do not interested in working with dark patterns and unethical ways to boost revenue.