I Specialize in:
Design Delivery
As a design delivery leader eager to help everyone around me excel. I am responsible for ensuring that projects are delivered smoothly and efficiently. With my expertise, I create project roadmaps, design sprint plans, and rituals, and manage design teams and stakeholders.
Product Design
As an empathetic product designer with 10+ years of experience, I create user-centric products that are not simply beautiful but also provide users with simple and efficient solutions.
Operations & Strategy
As a design operations leader, I am proficient at starting from the ground up. I strategize, research, and roadmap using UX methodologies to address all things craft, toolchain, design best practices, talent, education across product design community.
My Core Skills
❏ Growth Design: onboarding, activation, retention
❏ Ethical AI integration & governance
❏ DesignOps & scaling high‑impact teams
❏ Data‑informed decision‑making (A/B testing, analytics)
❏ Inclusive, human‑centered systems thinking
❏ Collaboration and rapid prototyping (Figma, FigJam, Miro)
My Design Philosophy
GROWTH MINDSET
obsessive about onboarding, retention, and iterative optimization
ETHICAL AI
built-in guardrails and human accountability
INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP
mentoring diverse teams and advocating for under-represented users
SYSTEM THINKING
designing for ecosystems, not isolated screens
I am Passionate About:
User Centered Design
Beginning a project with the user's voice ensures the product solves the real problem for the real user in a desirable way.
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User Interviews
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Feedback at every step
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Design thinking exercises to incorporate the user's vision into design
Inclusive
Cross-functional Teams
Advocating for including the Product, Design
and Engineering Teams in al discussions and early on reduces risks.
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Cross Practice Collaboration and pairing Respect for the expertise of other team members.
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Developer and Business inclusion in research.
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Domain Driven Sessions to understand the structure of how domain applies to data.
Leadership Through Education
It is key to equip the teams with tools necessary to succeed by enabling their professional their growth and promoting innovation.
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Provide insights into the Product Design process and best practices to Stakeholders, Business, and Dev teams.
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Encourage and facilitate continued education for the Design Teams.
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Bring visibility to the Value of UX in the whole organization through Case Studies
Get to Know Me
I’m a Product Design Leader with 15+ years of experience—most recently as Co‑Founder and Head of Design Operations & AI Ethics at Brady UX and a Senior Manager of Design Operations at Wayfair.
As a Belarusian immigrant to the U.S., I bring a deeply personal commitment to building inclusive systems that break down barriers, elevate diverse voices, and enable meaningful civic action.
My mission is to design tools—especially in civic and AI technology—that help people participate, engage, and activate in democratic life.
