Team player ⋅ Hobbies ⋅ Work experience ⋅ Education ⋅ Training ⋅ Exhibitions
Hey, I’m Yana, a lead product designer, an architecture photographer, and a new media artist. As long as I remember, I always wanted to be a designer: of clothes, buildings, graphics, and experiences. This led me to get a degree in architecture. And to build a career in the field that has resonated with me the most — product design. For me, design is a problem-solving activity where data, psychology, ergonomics, empathy, and understanding human behavior are your best friends. I’m keen on visual aesthetics and get a kick out of making customer experiences easier.
Evolution
I started to work as a product designer 9 years ago in a B2B company that develops medical applications for hospitals and insurance companies. Working in that domain required strong UX skills and implied lots of information architecture-related work, as there’s tons of data in medicine and all of it is essential. After having worked there for 4 years, I gradually came to realize that I wanted to work with end-users and get my UI expertise on par with my UX skills. That’s when I changed the job and started to work at an over-the-top video streaming platform. This change from medicine to entertainment has made it clear to me how important the visual side of the design is. When people open a video on demand application they expect to relax and start having fun from the very first second. During the last year, I have been heavily involved in kids UX: I have launched the kids section of the platform and the corresponding multiple user profile functionality.
Team player
I am self-motivated and able to motivate others, with solid communication and interpersonal skills. Team playing is my thing and I acknowledge how important it is to constantly improve the functioning of a team. I do that by optimizing the processes, nurturing a healthy and open climate, and keeping track of the team’s mood together with the head of the product design department, whom I occasionally substitute. Every few months I organize meetups with guest speakers for our design team to spark inspiration and encourage skills development. I have conducted over 80 designer job interviews, hired 5 designers, and raised 1 senior designer.
Hobbies
I like giving back to the design community. My icons have been downloaded from the Noun Project over 20k times.
As a trained architect, I adore architecture and capturing it in photography. My architecture photos have been downloaded from Unsplash more than 50k times. Another beloved practice of mine is creating art projects that reflect on the topics of human existence, its roots and its future.
Work experience
“Okko”, OTT video streaming platform
Lead Product Designer, 2018 –Present
Okko is a lead Russian over-the-top video streaming platform with 2.2M paying customers. I’m a lead product designer of the discovery and watching cluster and am heavily involved in kids UX in Kids and Family team. I have launched the kids section, the multiple user profile functionality, code activation page and a streaming platform centered around vertical videos. I have also reworked registration, authorization, main page and welcome experiences. Among other things, I usually mentor 1–3 designers.
“Aluna Health”, Medical IT company (Russian office “Biarum”)
Senior Product Designer, 2015 –2018
I participated in launching a service that helps detect cancer and manage its treatment, provides patients with the info to better understand the stages of the disease, and visualizes decision-making algorithms in oncology.
I have also worked on EMRs, HIEs, a medical knowledge library, an evidence curation system, and a clinical decision support platform. Clients include Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Partners Healthcare and Inside Tracker.
“Power Lineage”, Medical IT company (Russian office “Biarum”)
Product Designer, 2014 –2015
I worked as a product designer on a family history tool aimed at genetic counselors. The tool has decreased the median time it took them to build a family history tree from 40 to 10 minutes. Our team has also created a questionnaire editor that helped doctors customize surveys to further automate genetic counselors’ workflows. This product was acquired by Invitae (NVTA:NYSE).
Education
National Research University ITMO, Master’s program
Product Design (UX/UI Design)
2023 –Present
St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Master’s program
Department of Architecture, Architect
2015 –2016
St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, Bachelor’s Degree
Department of Environmental Design, Designer
2014 –2015 (transferred from Polotsk)
Polotsk State University, Specialist’s degree
Department of Architecture, Architect
2010 –2014
Training
The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater
Machine Learning Educational Programme by New media artists “Yes, We Gan”
June –August 2020
The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater
New Media Laboratory, Research and airing program of the new media in theatre and related performing arts, from the spheres of sound- and video- to bio-, data-art and programming education
February –August 2018
Tallinn University
Summer school of Tallinn University and Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics “Experimental Interaction Design: Physiological Computing Technologies for Performative Art.”
August 2018
British Higher School of Art and Design
Department of Communication Design, “User Experience Design” course.
January 2017
European University at St. Petersburg
Department of Art History, “Architecture as Communication” course.
September– December 2016
Conferences, exhibitions and mentions
Conferences
World Usability Day Russia 2020
“The specifics of designing interfaces for children using a video streaming platform”.
Here is the video of my talk
Exhibitions
Winter program of Gamma festival (musical and cultural event)
“Blank” art space, St. Petersburg, Russia
“The Longest Night” festival
The French Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Final works of the Laboratory of New Media
The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia
Final works of the Tallinn University and ITMO Summer School “Experimental Interaction Design”
The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia
Acousmonium music festival
International Festival of Acoustic Music on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Private Life of Radio Frequencies
Exhibition-research in A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications, St. Petersburg, Russia
Contact:
[email protected] +7(981) 832-53-80