Hi
I’m Yuliya, a Product designer based in Portugal with over 5 years of experience designing complex digital products from idea to launch
My Design Journey
My path started in advertising and evolved through visual design into product design
Advertising & Marketing · 7 years
My career started in advertising, supported by formal education in marketing and communications. This background taught me how to think in terms of audience, positioning, and measurable outcomes. It shaped my understanding of user motivation and decision-making — a foundation I later brought into product discovery and design.
Graphic Design · 1+ year
Graphic design shaped my visual thinking and attention to detail. I worked with typography, layout, branding, and visual systems, learning how to communicate ideas clearly and consistently across different contexts. This experience trained my eye for hierarchy, balance, and clarity — and later helped me ensure visual consistency across interfaces.
Product Design · 5+ years
Product design became the natural next step in my journey. Here, I brought together my background in marketing, visual design, and systems thinking to solve real user problems. I work end-to-end — from problem discovery and hypothesis shaping to designing, testing, and iterating solutions in close collaboration with product and engineering teams. Learn more
Experience
2025 august – now
Product Designer at Donate Open (startup)
Responsible for the full product design cycle: from early research and concept development to MVP version and handoff to engineering.
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Responsibilities:
- Design interfaces from scratch, shaping core user flows, product logic, and the design system
- Collaborate closely with product manager, CEO and developers
- Build interactive prototypes, prepare demos, and contribute to roadmap planning
- Led end-to-end design of new features
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2025 april – 2025 august (5 mos)
Product Designer at We Are Volt
I worked with a product for the Venture investment market (super app with complex processes and AI) aimed at collecting, processing, analyzing, and visualizing data from large numbers of sources and building forecast models on its base.
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Responsibilities:
- Designing and enhancing existing features by integrating AI-powered functionality
- Creating responsive designs for mobile and cross-platform compatibility
- Maintaining and improving the design system to ensure consistency and scalability
- Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including analysts, developers, QA engineers, and project managers
- Enhancing product features in response to testing and user insights
2022 august – 2025 april (2 yrs 9 mos)
Product Designer at Most Finance
Work on 4 projects: Lynx Digital, Must, Cardlist ,WeWallet
Responsibilities:
- Communication with stakeholders and developers
- Designing CJM and User Flows
- Creating UI-kits and Design System
- Designing mobile apps and websites
- Creating websites on builders (Tilda, Wix)
- Prototyping
- UX testing (hypothesis formation and testing)
- Design review on the prod app’s version
2021 march – 2022 august (1 yr 6 mos)
Freelance: UX/UI design, web sites & landings design
2014-2021 (7 yrs)
Worked as a marketer and PR in-house and in agencies
