Aug 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

Jun 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

Apr 2022 – May 2022 · 1 mo

Mar 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr

Nov 2020 – Mar 2021 · 4 mos

Feb 2020 – Nov 2020 · 9 mos · Remote

• Successfully redesigned Reports, one of Timely’s most complex and underperforming
• components. The new design addresses key issues in a large variety of usage scenarios while
• providing solid scalability beyond SMB.
• As a product owner/designer of Dewo relaunched the product to address actual customers’ pains and helped them be more productive.
• Introduced regular user research. Optimized design tools and pipeline, helping design and
• development teams do more with fewer resources. Helped with the design and adoption of the
• company’s design system.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

• Conducted extensive research and analysis of existing solutions and proposed a design that solves most existing problems without significantly increasing development complexity.
• Designed UI and interactions for both hardware wallet and a mobile companion app, build multiple interactive prototypes to explain and test proposed interfaces.

Oct 2018 – Dec 2018 · 2 mos · Remote

• Saved the company moths of work by conducting user research that revealed the need to shift the focus from an expensive and overrated feature towards polishing general flows.
• Proposed new, simplified design for the product and a roadmap for transition.

Nov 2017 – Jan 2018 · 2 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

• Managed and led a group of 5 designers working on the company’s core products.
• Reduced typical design task execution time from 7 to 3 days by updating workflow and improving cross-team communication.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs · Remote

• Designed Iterate, a mobile prototyping tool that helps designers create and update wireframes at least twice faster than using a pen and paper.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr · remote

• Helped IoT startups make their products more usable and useful by reducing excessive user input and relying more on the system’s data.
• Projects included home lighting automation, multi-room music playback, air quality sensors.

Oct 2009 – Dec 2014 · 5 yrs 2 mos · remote

• An independent Mac development studio.
• DaisyDisk. Started in 2008 as a visualisation experiment and is currently the de-facto standard for Mac disk space recovery:
• Zero to 350+k customers on organic traffic in a highly competitive environment.
• Apple has included DaisyDisk into the list of the best Mac apps in 2011, 2013 and 2015.
• Solid 5-star Mac App Store user rating.
• Appeared in the Person of Interest TV series, visualisation adopted by countless companies worldwide.
• DaisyDisk had a fully animated UI since 2009, years before it has become a trend.
• Other released apps are LilyView, a chromeless image viewer, and Unclutter, a small productivity tool.

Sep 2006 – Sep 2009 · 3 yrs · Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation; remote

• Designed a web-based administration panel used for installing, configuring and operating a complex unified communication system. The panel has become a single entry point for the product’s configuration, usable by mid-level system admins. The study revealed that the Unison Control Panel has been much easier to use than any competing product of its time.
• Worked as a solo interaction designer since day one, led and supervised a group of two UI designers.

Nov 2004 – May 2005 · 6 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

• Created icons and other graphics for the company’s desktop and mobile products, including Lingvo and FineReader.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · remote

• Created interfaces, graphic assets and user manuals for Aston and AltDesk.
• Redesigned interfaces lowered the entry barrier for new customers and remained relevant for years after my departure.