Estonia

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Kseniia Afrikantova

Lead Product Designer

Communication

Problem-solving

Design systems

User research

Figma

Framer

Jira

Collaboration

Organisation skills

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

— Design system and design delivery process:
Developed a cross-platform design system from scratch for web and desktop app, leading to a 25% decrease in design iteration cycles and a 40% increase in implementation speed.

— New features design and current functional improvements:
Modernised UI and created new features like asset version control, desktop onboarding and integration management from basic requirements and customer interviews to high-fidelity mockups, prototypes and finished implemented flows.

—Product research and UX analysis
Integrated customer and user feedback gathering, along with User Journey Maps, into the design process  and feature planning, resulting in heightened customer satisfaction and iterative enhancements to user flows over time.

—Design management and mentorship
Successfully mentored junior designers, empowering them to proficiently design complex features with fewer iterations and edits, thereby enhancing team efficiency and output quality.  Conducted technical job interviews.

Design management and mentorship
Establish processes within cross-functional teams encompassing developers, analysts, QAs, and marketing. Implementing design sprints reduced design iteration cycles, improved task and wireframe detail, and accelerated implementation speed. Led the design efforts for multiple products, overseeing a global team of 5 designers across Russia, Belarus, and Brazil: provided reviews, onboarded newcomers, and guided them through processes.

New features design and existing features improvements
Implemented an automated customer search flow, drastically reducing user effort. Previously reliant on up to 5 disparate systems to identify callers, my proposal streamlined the process, resulting in automated caller identification in 87% of cases. Additionally, introduced smart suggestions to further expedite processes, leading to a notable decrease in average call duration and error rates.

Design system and design delivery process
Managed diverse design versions for various customers and multiple product branches. Enhanced company's design system, optimizing component loading time and file size for improved performance.

Contributed to e-commerce and e-care apps design for Ecuador and Uruguay telecom operators.
Created rough prototypes for the e-care part of the Malta telecom operator App with other UX designers.

Produced design for B&N Bank app for business within UX design team, business analysts, product owners and developers. Designed user flows, helped to keep documentation up to date, wrote design documentation, provided implementation review for the development team.

Designed web apps for police (ARMS) and policy  (Policy View) organisations. Constantly contributed to the award-winning Outline app for OSx and iOS. Fully designed iPhone version of the Outline app. 
Provided implementation review and worked closely with development team within a Waterfall process.

Based on customer feedback executed re-design of plastic surgery and job-seeking portals under the art-director guidance. Drew technical and medical illustrations.

Designed characters, items, UI and game mechanics for a TinySpace game. Provided market and competitors analysis.

Designed and developed UI on HTML/CSS/JS for local customers, as car diller companies, shopping centres and local newspapers.

Designed promo materials (banners, posters, postcards), business cards, brochures and other printing materials for university events and needs.

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