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Hey, I’m Kris, a Senior Product Designer with over 7 years of experience. I have worked on projects spanning Edtech, Fintech, Medtech, SaaS, as well as tools and instruments designed for people. I specialize in creating end-to-end products as a product designer. Additionally, I've established an entire research department at Studio and conducted research on products worldwide, including in Europe, USA, UK, Africa, Asia, and Australia, among other regions. Recently, I was granted a Global Talent Visa for the UK 🇬🇧 and am not in need of any visa sponsorship.

I'm eager to continue my journey as an Individual Contributor, working hands on and focusing on pushing the boundaries of product design and innovation. I am passionate about refining user experiences, collaborating with diverse teams, and driving projects from concept to realization through direct involvement.

Experience

MAX – product design agency

Senior Product Designer → Staff Product Designer/Art director and Head of Research · 2021-2023

At MAX, I joined as a senior product designer and grew to become an Staff Product Designer/Art Director.

• built the research department from scratch and took on the role of Head of Research;
• designed services, complex interfaces, platforms, and admin panels;
• managed 10-15 projects (with my maximum being 30 projects in one time);
• led teams of 30-40 individuals across these projects;
• allocated designers and managers to various projects, oversaw workloads, handled the hiring and departure of designers, managers, copywriters, and researchers;
• over the past year, I have also been responsible for all sales activities at the studio and have successfully sold projects worth several million euros.

Mostransport

An application that allows users to select transportation options and plan routes from point A to point B in Moscow. The main goal of the project was to reassemble the mobile application almost from scratch through research and comprehensive market analysis in order to design a user-friendly service with a focus on important functionality and multi-route options. Through redesign, we aimed to reduce the route-building time from 2 minutes to 30 seconds, a goal we successfully achieved with the updated application. We validated this improvement by testing it with real users.

• I worked within the product team at Mosttransport;
• Established a process for task prioritization and sprint planning;
• Developed the internal client's designer;
• Conducted market research and audience audits to identify crucial functionality and properly emphasize it in the application;
• Created audience segments based on research;
• Compiled a JBTD through research;
• Translated the visual concept across all interfaces;
• Illustrated application scenarios for route planning, transportation selection, and tracking;
• Designed complex multi-route scenarios involving transfers from one mode of transport to another;
• Designed all major application scenarios.

Raiffeisen Bank

One of the most challenging projects in terms of processes involved creating a personal dashboard for 10,000 bank employees together with a team. The project had around 15 product managers, each responsible for separate, disconnected services for employees.

As an Art Director and researcher on the project, I needed to gather insights from each product manager about what was most crucial in their part. To achieve this, I conducted interviews, surveys, and organized workshops to create JBTDs (resulting in about 400 job stories) with the team.

Additionally, I conducted five rounds of interviews with employees. I divided all 10,000 employees into three dimensions: position (developer, accountant, cashier), level (manager, regular employee, intern), and context (using the dashboard in the office, at home, in the metro). I selected 10-12 individuals from each dimension for research, where I tested the illustrated prototypes.

I assembled the project framework, understood how to merge 15 different internal bank services into one, and passed it onto another designer and Art Director for further detailed design and visual styling.

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Furthermore, myself and two other Art Directors created a complete concept for a Raiffeisen Bank tender in just 2 days. With this concept, we won the tender and started working on the project.

Video with design concept below (in russian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCdL-56OhNM

Movip

A tool for film production planning. The product needed to be user-friendly for planning the complex process of shooting a film, as all production stages must be planned a year or two in advance. If, for instance, on August 20, 2024, there's rain instead of the planned sunshine, the entire plan involving actors, locations, lighting, sound, and more needs to be revised.

Due to the product's complexity, I took on the roles of both a lead product designer and an art director:

• I developed the entire product architecture to ensure easy film planning, viewing of call sheets, finding actors, locations, and tracking the budget;
• I conducted interviews with all potential roles that would use the tool;
• I devised a process for tightly integrating user interviews with prototype development: I scheduled weekly calls with directors, assistant directors, producers, financial directors to showcase the prototype and gather feedback;
• I conducted competitive analysis;
• I onboarded additional designers and distributed work among them;
• I handed over the project to a visual designer for final design detailing.