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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

Ilya Narinsky
Ilya Narinsky

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

Anton Kriviakin
Anton Kriviakin

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

Andrew Sakharov
Andrew Sakharov

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

Kirill Lipovoi
Kirill Lipovoi

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

Pavel Pavlyuchik
Pavel Pavlyuchik

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

Who designs Russian big tech — Issue #3 · Foliobin