Squarecap is a SaaS product for teachers and students to track attendance, encourage participation, and provide students with immediate feedback, whether online or in person. This 3 months volunteering is part of the Russian Business Leaders program organized by the United States Embassy. ● UX audit of the main user journey and recommendations for improvement. ● Analysis of interface solutions of competitors. ● Design of new functionality. ● Communication with founders and marketers. Achievements: ● List of recommendations for improving the communication part of the site. ● List of recommendations and prototypes for improving the user journey in the product. ● Prototypes and design layouts of a new feature with specifications for the development team.

The Yandex Practicum is an EdTech company. It provides online courses and education in IT: programming, design, data analysis, marketing, management etc. Students work combined with regular communication with mentors. ● Creating a design review process from scratch. Optimizing on a feedback basis. ● Responsible for external metrics: response SLA, feedback quality. ● Responsible for internal metrics: LTV of the design reviewer, job satisfaction. ● Hiring a senior design reviewer. Training and delegation of core processes and responsibilities. ● Scaling and adaptation of the design review system to other programs of the faculty (Graphic Designer, Product Designer, etc.). ● Hiring and training of a design review team of 70 people: Q&A, knowledge base, 1:1 meetings. ● Creation of educational content and exercises for the program interface designer, product designer. Achievements: ● Built a design review business process with students' NPS on design reviews at 4.7. ● Created educational content on topics: Composition basics, Grids, Communications with product owner, Design & Time management, UX audit, UX simulator. ● Kept LTV at the level of 8 months. By creating educational materials, community building, and rotation between programs. Implemented a system of bonuses and motivations. ● Created a tone of voice and ethics as a designer to give feedback on student work. ● Built a permanent recruitment system: hired 150+ part-time designers.

● Worked as a front-end developer on 20+ projects. Among the clients are b2c and b2b websites and SaaS services.

A team of designers for digital products, services, corporations. We have been helping to design (UX/UI) complex interfaces: personal accounts, ERP systems and SaaS services for businesses and startups from Russia, the USA, and Europe since 2016. A distributed team of 15 people: designers, developers, and project managers. ● Design (UX / UI) for large international companies such as Gazprom, Yandex.Practicum, Avito, Skyeng, World Skills, Plekhanov University of Economics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Government, and others. ● Communication with the stakeholders, researchers, marketing, analysts, and developers. ● Problem framing, adapting business requirements to the terms of reference for designers and developers. ● Defining visual and interactive experience of products. Scale design system with the team. ● Implementation of a quality system. Review and control of applying design system and developer's work. ● Applying Design processes in a cross-functional team. ● Leading cross-functional teams in the studio and integrating the studio team into the client team. ● Market and competitors analysis, user research (qualitative/quantitative), working with analytics systems. ● Development of design solutions based on the research findings and key metrics. ● Gathering requirements, prioritizing, resources and teams for fast MVP development. ● Preparation of design layout specifications for developers. ● Running presentations and argumentation of design decisions. ● Hiring and raising designers skills. Achievements: ● Launched more than 250 IT projects for clients in 6 years as a lead designer and head of the studio. ● Worked with different types of IT projects SaaS products, web services, product pages, corporate websites. Mostly with AGILE principles. ● Built a system for the growth of designers within the studio through a Personal Development Plan and 1:1 meetings. ● Optimized and standardized the design process, which made it possible to more accurately predict the workload of the design department, dynamically deliver results to the client, and optimize costs. ● The studio took a place in the TOP20 design studios specializing in Tilda Publishing in Russia. ● Increased the size of the team from 8 to 15 in 2022, the average work time of an employee is 2 years.