Aleonov

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Areas of Expertise

12 years designing digital products used by millions.
Here's where I do my best work.

Product Design
Web and mobile. Flows, interfaces, prototypes, design systems. The full stack of product design work.
Web Design
Designing and shipping websites for startups, studios, and personal projects — from one-pagers to full editorial sites.
AI & Prototyping
Fluent with Figma, Claude, Stitch, v0, and whatever ships next month. I prototype to learn, not to impress.
Research & Strategy
Good design starts with a well-defined problem. I run discovery, interviews, and synthesis — turning ambiguity into direction the whole team can move on.
Stakeholder management
Most design problems are people problems. I've navigated competing priorities, difficult reviews, and tight timelines without losing the craft.
Teamleading
I've led teams, mentored juniors, and run hiring. Equally comfortable as IC or leading level.

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Senior Product Designer, 10+ years shipping products used by tens of millions across luxury commerce, fintech, cybersecurity, gaming, and health. I lead design end to end, mentor designers, and partner with product and engineering to turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into calm, high-converting experiences. Certified Usability Analyst. Fluent in AI-augmented design workflows.

Core strengths: Product strategy · End-to-end UX/UI · Design systems · Cross-platform (web & mobile) · User research & usability · Prototyping · Team leadership & mentorship · Stakeholder management · AI-assisted design (Claude, ChatGPT, generative imagery)

1stDibs - Senior Product Designer (2025–Present)
Own the buyer-facing and seller iOS experiences for the world's leading luxury marketplace. Leading a full overhaul, modernising the design system and driving cross-platform parity while pushing a mobile-first approach across the org.
Freelance - Product Designer & Consultant (2020–Present)
Part-time partner to startups and established brands: taking products from first idea to shipped MVP, setting design direction as a hands-on lead, and building out design teams. Advise on usability, conversion, and product strategy when a fresh senior eye is needed.
Eneba - Senior Product Designer (2023–2025)
Designed high-traffic commerce for a European gaming marketplace with 10M+ users. Balanced aggressive conversion targets with real usability, shipping at speed without sacrificing craft.
Corner Case Technologies - Senior Product Designer & Teamlead (2022–2023)
End-to-end design across client projects from Zurich to Vilnius, concept through handoff. Mentored designers and led the UX practice. Spearheaded design and brand for Auroli, an AI-powered ADHD health platform spun off as a funded startup.
Nord Security - Product Designer, NordVPN (2020–2022)
Shaped the experience for one of the world's most-used VPNs, 12M+ global users. Built and maintained the cross-platform design system, shipping features at pace in a security-critical product.
NFQ - Product Designer (2019–2020)
Designed complex UX/UI for aviation, logistics, banking, and fintech products reaching millions daily — clients including KAYAK, HomeToGo, and SIXT. Specialised in making dense systems feel effortless.
MailerLite - Web Designer (2016–2019)
Helped grow an email platform to 1M+ customers, doubling year on year. Drove conversion via landing-page design with the SEO team and shipped new products, bridging design and front-end code.
Discovery Education - Junior Product & Front-end Designer (2015–2016)
Designed and built collaborative classroom apps (Discuss, QuickFire, TeamUp), delivering a cohesive cross-device learning experience used in schools.