The best career advice I can give to you right now — Being a b2b designer for over 4 years already I now always get startled when people wave out b2b job opportunities saying they don’t want their portfolio to be dull. Like having a portfolio of illustration-heavy applications which you can slice for dribbble shots would make you an ultimate UX…

A practical guide for design leads to helping team members in stress. — Terrible things inevitably happen in our communities and we, as UX leaders, might not be properly trained to handle them. It’s normal to feel lost when you observe someone in your team is experiencing stress or trauma, or worse, you can be in crisis yourself. That’s why I believe it’s…

Hi there, for those of you that don't know me, I am a Principal Product Designer at Zalando right now. That means that I have been a principal for a good 4 years already. …

Objective: Your task is to design an experience that will help integrate Airport Shuttle service into Bolt ride-hailing app. — Definition of Airport Shuttle According to Cambridge Dictionary “shuttle” is a a vehicle or aircraft that travels regularly between two places. Although it seems the business meaning is more broad. Internet research On the keywords “airport shuttle” for a variety of locations Google shows the following services:

Objective: Trivago aim to create a product that captures more users in the earlier part of the travel funnel; where they get inspiration for their next trip. Focus made on regional/nearby trips for the user. Product: https://discover.trivago.com/ Value Hypothesis Task 1.1. Do a walkthrough of the discover product. Identify an opportunity for improvement. …

Recently my colleague and friend Daria Barinova asked me to give her an interview about our approach to developing a new product in Nimax Agency. It was published in our corporate newsletter #8 and I took it on myself to translate a part of it into English, ’cause I think…

In an ideal world we all have sophisticated managers and clients on our projects, which are as involved in a process and educated in arts as we are. And sometimes we do, but let’s face it: we’re the most responsible person in our project in terms of visual. Consequently, the…

It has been two years since I’m working as an interactive art director in digital agencies in total. Last half of a year I’m doing this job for Nimax Agency, which is well-known prolific agency in Saint Petersburg. Everytime I have an upcoming task to hire a designer or to…