Russia

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Service Design

UX writing

UX Testing

UX Research

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Kseniya Belyaeva

Team lead, Design manager, Senior Product Designer

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Prototyping

Communication

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Leadership

Blog writing

Figma

Design systems

User research

Usability Testing

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

— design difficult tech web product for developers (adaptive design for other breakpoints)
— present & protect decisions in prototype for business
— suggest ideas to business for improving metrics
— use the scrum methodology
— give presentations as a team lead on quarterly design review for the design director
— implemented design-review (after dev step) as a process to product team
— created design task sample for designers
— created guide how to format design files in Figma
— mentor for designers who design products for developers and QA
— give regular feedback to mentees
— organise retrospective in a design team
— review of other designers' work
— interview designers to product team
— exchange experiences with other design leads
— organise workshops for designers
— interview users and conduct UX tests
— Use design system Granat (https://design.mts.ru)
— Create components and prepare specification for local product library

— improve process of design team's work
— distribute and prognos designers workload
— give regular feedback to designer (1-1)
— review designers work
— design difficult products for entrepreneurs (B2B)
— present and protect solutions for business

I continued to work as a freelance designer on the same product.

I was the first designer who developed a new design for production (transition to the OZI design system) 
I won article Habr contest in the company with the article about a design review.  This article was shortlisted for the contest Technotext 2023 by Habr.
— design new flows and support old flows in Returns FBS & Returns realFBS at Ozon Seller with design system OZI
— design new flows and support old flows in Returns at Ozon.ru
— design new section of Seller App (Android & iOS) with SXapp Library
— create organizms for Ozon Seller Library
— interview users applying CustDev
— deploy new processes and improve old processes in product team
— write documentation for developers and designers

— design main flows (mafin.ru/kasko/calc и mafin.ru/osago/calc) and site pages with current styles
— design main mobile flows (iOS & Android) of car check for buying insurance
— design agent's personal account (B2B) and create UI kit
— search and interview designers
— onboard new designers
— mentor new designers
— create design system for Web (before that I made UI kit because product didn't have styles and tokens in development and Figma)
— components for Design system which help to make CMS pages faster
— participated in research (focus-groups, interviews & UX tests)
— design mafin.ru with new business strategy
— substituted product manager
— create UI kit for apps
— review dev's work at test stages
— participate in daily meetings & planning

— design and prototype mobile apps (Android & iOS): chats, banking B2B apps and others
— design adaptive web sites, admin panels (B2B), chats, bank personal accounts & desktop apps for WIndows & Linux
— work with other developers' teams (iOS, Android, web, Desktop)
— conduct job interviews
— check designers' work
— review developers' work

— design marketing banners, pages for contests
— design e-com site with fullstack developer
— contact with printing houses
— design regular magazine & printing products

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