INTRO

Design System Designer

I bring structure to complex digital products.

I turn fragmented interfaces, libraries, and workflows into coherent design systems that teams can understand, maintain, and scale.

20+ years in design 5+ years in design systems Helsinki, Finland
SELECTED WORK

Design systems work

Case studies showing how I audit fragmented products, define system foundations,
and turn recurring interface problems into scalable cross-platform solutions.

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PRODUCT DESIGN
WHAT I BRING

System architecture

Audits, library architecture, foundations, tokens, theming, component models, cross-platform systems.

Governance and adoption

Guidelines, documentation, contribution workflows, accessibility, and design–engineering alignment.

Product and visual craft

B2B and B2C workflows, interface design, prototyping, iconography, and visual systems.

FIGMA · FIGJAM · STORYBOOK · SUPERNOVA · NOTION · HTML/CSS
EXPERIENCE

Muse Group

Design System Designer

Design system foundations, shared libraries, and automation across six products, including web, mobile, and themed ecosystems.

2022—Present

Cian Group

Design System Designer

Built a shared design-system foundation across Web, iOS, and Android from fragmented product libraries.

2021—2022

Karuna

Senior Product Designer

Owned product design and the design ecosystem for a multilingual iOS and Android trading product with 10M+ downloads.

2019—2021

Devim

Senior Product Designer

Designed fintech web and mobile products, built internal design systems, and mentored junior designers.

2017–2019

Earlier experience

Graphic design · web · agency / independent work

Group M · independent and agency work.

2006–2017

RECOMMENDATIONS

“Thanks to Vitalii the system has a clear structure and rules, the elements have found their description. I want to note Vitalii's thoughtfulness and structural and flexible thinking.”

Alex KandaurovHead of Design at CianManaged Vitalii directly

“He was the initiator and creator of the UIKit component library, which the team continued to use even after he left the company. The quality of his solutions is always excellent, moreover, he constantly offers new ideas for improvement.”

Alexander OstrovskyHead of Product Engineering at KarunaManaged Vitalii directly

“Vitalii is very careful with design structure, intelligently breaks design into components and does not do ‘feature for feature's sake’: everything is always justified and conditioned by some problem solved for the client.”

Andrei KrotovSenior iOS Developer at KarunaWorked with Vitalii on the same team
Full recommendations

Alex Kandaurov

Head of Design at CianManaged Vitalii directly

I hired Vitalii at Cian as a System and Principles Designer. Before that, the tasks for the system were distributed among the team. Vitalii was able to take it all on, as well as set up communication with the developers of the system. Thanks to Vitalii the system has a clear structure and rules, the elements have found their description. I want to note Vitalii's thoughtfulness and structural and flexible thinking. He managed to balance between strict adherence to the rules of the system and the exceptions that sometimes had to be made.

Alexander Ostrovsky

Head of Product Engineering at KarunaManaged Vitalii directly

Vitalii worked in the mobile development team, which I led. He has established himself as a strong specialist. He was engaged in the design of mobile applications (iOS and Android). I admire his attention to subtle details and the desire to constantly improve. He was the initiator and creator of the UIKit component library, which the team continued to use even after he left the company. It is always easy to discuss the details of the implementation with Vitalii and he takes feedback constructively. The quality of his solutions is always excellent, moreover, he constantly offers new ideas for improvement. Vitalii easily finds a common language with all team members, which allows him to find efficient and high-quality solutions. I’ll be glad to work with him again.

Andrei Krotov

Senior iOS Developer at KarunaWorked with Vitalii on the same team

I worked with Vitalii, while he was a UX/UI designer, as an iOS developer for a little over a year. Vitalii is very careful with design structure, intelligently breaks design into components and does not do “feature for feature's sake”: everything is always justified and conditioned by some problem solved for the client. Vitalii is maximally loyal to the project, the product and the company as a whole, which is always reflected in his statements and actions. Extremely recommend him as a great designer and employee and I really hope to work shoulder to shoulder again someday.

Mikhail Skvortsov

UX/UI Lead at DevimManaged Vitalii directly

Ok, speaking about Vitalii, he smart, brave and intelligent. One of best designers ever i met. Sad that we not working together right now and always open to any cooperation with. You will be very lucky if you hire he.

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