Hello

Key skills

UI / UX design

Market research
Information architecture
Wireframing
Design systems
Visual design

Graphic design

Sketching
Typography
Color theory
Identity
Branding
Print

Additional

Proficient in html, css & javascript
Passionate user of AI
Mentoring
Copywriting

Timeline

NOW → Cherkassy

Cherkassy State Business College, teacher of typography.
Working on freelance projects.

* Looking for a fulltime job.

2023 → Kyiv

Bafood. Food tech.
product designer, copywriter.
Working on an app and website for service for ordering food directly to your door. Fast, free and easy. Maintaining design system consistency, implementing new features.
Involved in marketing activities designing key-visuals and branding elements for company visual identity.

2017 → Kyiv

Freelancer.
Worked on various projects: websites, apps. Performed lectures and master-classes for design students in Cherkassy Museum of Arts, curator of bachelor diploma students. Studied front-end development to have a skillset to build websites by myself.

2015 → Kyiv

Cogniance (now—Star Global). IT Tech.
Started as visual designer. Later as UI/UX designer, then product designer.
Worked with Xerox, PARC, Metropolitan Transportation Agency, SAIC, CloudMade (automotive), Celgene (pharmaceutical).
Research, ideate, prototype, design, user-test, development support and guidance. All my career I worked as a link between design and development departments because I speak both languages and know HTML, CSS and JS (pretty well for a designer).
Few times I went on-site to meet the client and conduct research to figure out what client needs and what are the main pain points of a product.

2013 → Kyiv

Grape Ukraine. Digital design agency.
Web designer, creative designer, storyboard artist.
As a multidisciplinary designer I was making web-pages, infographics, key-visuals for ad campaigns, was deeply involved in creative brainstorms and went on meetings with clients to sell concepts and defend ideas. Designed keyframes for case studies and promo videos (as assets for motion designers). Clients: Kyivstar, Isover, Delta Bank, AVK, Investment Capital Ukraine.

2011 → Kyiv

ISD Group. Digital design agency.
Started working as interactive designer.
In Adobe Flash with actionscript2. Cutting edge of web design technology of that time. I made banners and interactive parts of web-pages. Lots of promo-sties, microinteractions, animations and festival projects. Worked with Nivea and Bayer corporations.
As a member of design team won Cannes Lions shortlist and two FWA's site of the day (thefwa.com).

2010 → Kharkiv

Graphic Design. Specialist degree.
Aced the diploma project on visual identity of poster design festival: identity, navigation, posters, stickers, diplomas, catalogue.

2008 → Kharkiv

Graphic Design. Bachelor degree.
Studied hard and qualified for a budget form of education. Diploma project was to design a book including preprint and production.

2004 → Kharkiv

Kharkiv State Academy of Arts and Design.
Student of Graphic Design faculty. Loved typography, composition, color theory and psychology. Learned academic drawing and painting.

1994 → Cherkassy

One of the best schools in town. A lucky coincidence.
Studied English since the beginning of Primary school, then sociology, philosophy, law. Loved biology, math, chemistry and physics.

1986 → Penza

Born in a family of artists.
Grandpa and grandma were engineers who shot stuff into space. One of the first hardware and software engineers in the USSR.