Design director with 16+ years in product: led teams and design systems at Yandex, Delivery Club, Zoon and Lamoda. At this level individual screens stop being the point — what's interesting is how he thinks in teams and systems
Who designs Russian big tech
#3 · June 22
The products people in the CIS open every day: taxi, bank, marketplace, classifieds, telecom. Five people responsible for them. Yandex, Sber, Avito, Ozon, MTS
Principal product designer with 11+ years in fintech, e-commerce and banking — Sberbank, and NBK/Weyay before that. A rare CIS case: experience in both Russian and Middle Eastern banking. Comparing how the same patterns live in different cultures is fascinating
Head of design at Avito, previously Yandex Market, AIC and Alfa-Bank. A classifieds platform at this scale means millions of sellers and buyers with opposing interests — design here is closer to urban planning than to drawing cards
Lead product designer at Ozon: UX/UI, design systems, edtech and e-commerce. A marketplace means designing under constant A/B pressure, where every decision is checked against numbers. Useful for anyone wondering how craft survives metrics
Staff product designer at MTS: design systems and AI products, previously Icons8 and Lunacy. Going from tools for designers to telecom design is an unusual path — and the portfolio shows how tool-maker thinking transfers to an ecosystem