Product meetup presentation about internal tools and customer-facing products

I feel embarrassed to be so late to all things AI.
Yes, I've already used Claude Code to build a product and Codex to port a fairly large website to a new engine. But I see people mastering AI at a completely different level.

In this talk, I joked: “Ask ChatGPT to improve your product for 20 years.”
Now I'm not sure it's a good joke. The timeline to deliver and improve digital products is shrinking fast...

But I still stand by one thing I said that day: distribution wins.

11ty meetup presentation about full-text search

Custom, fast, and serverless

Most people reach for tools like Algolia or Pagefind when adding search to static sites. I didn’t — for nerdy reasons. In this talk, I’ll walk you through how I navigated the solution space and what it took to build something custom. No servers, no third-party services, and no bloated dependencies. Just fast, client-side search that feels right. You might leave inspired to build your own—or confident that you never want to. 😄

BugBash2025 intro clip

We wanted to have a video intro for the recording of the talks, but I got a bit carried away and animated the letters in Cavalry to sync with the music, which I had commissioned in the first place (Rebekah did a great job).

Antithesis POC website update

This time, we wanted to show something eye-catching and offer new CTA buttons to click. The warp speed effect was done purely with CSS – no JavaScript at all. Later, I learned that the Nova page had a much cooler implementation of it (hover the main CTA there).

BugBash 2025 website

At Antithesis, we decided to organize a conference with just 4 months to prepare after locking the venue – enough time to get everything ready for 200 attendees. Given the tight timeline, I opted to build the website without bundlers, using just a single HTML/CSS page with no JavaScript required (except optionally for the petals effect).

Zulip sidebar design and prototype

The code is open

This was an interesting challenge and an example of where Figma has its limits. There were many design iterations for the sidebars of the web app, and here is a video showcasing the somewhat finalized prototype before Zulip entered the implementation phase.

Antithesis out of stealth website

We were coming out of stealth, so it was a big deal to showcase something cool and attention-worthy about our nerdy testing platform. We even hit #1 on Hacker News for a day!

Since we were iterating a lot on the general slides, creating a video wasn’t an option. Instead, I coded the entire animation with GSAP. The best part was that it was responsive, switching between horizontal for desktop and vertical for mobile.

I hope the Wayback Machine stores it for a long time (including running away button joke), but anyway, here’s the recording:

Zulip plans comparison design & prototype

The prototype is integrated to Zulip website.
And the code is open too (html, css, js).

Zulip pricing page design and prototype

The prototype is integrated to Zulip website.
And the code is open too (html, css, js).

Reflecting on the past year

And thinking about next

Antithesis was my main job, the most challenging thing I developed was the virtually scrollable component to print arbitrary sequences of data with unknown height in cells of our reactive notebook. It would be great to use react-window but our requirements and goals behind such component forced me to create everything from scratch. Unfortunately I can't share more at this point. I hope in 2024 I could show more of my work at Antithesis as product designer/developer/manager.

For Zulip I did:

• Designing the first version of the new mobile app, which I plan to refine and enhance in 2024.
• Developing various design proposals and interactive prototypes for integration into the web app, including the compose box, sidebars, banners, menus, and the image viewer.
• UX/UI design of smaller features which were integrated in Zulip release
• Couple of marketing pages, examples of which are showcased here.

Zulip home page design and prototype

The code is open (html, css, js)

Zulip sought to revamp their homepage, prompting me to create an innovative design. As a self-imposed challenge, I successfully achieved 99% functionality without relying on JavaScript. The design includes automatic toggling between light and dark themes, responsiveness, and image optimization features that auto-detect the appropriate resolution and format for images.

Testing the new logo which I made for Antithesis

The test took place at a sponsored booth during Strange Loop.
I hope to publish a detailed case study in some future.

Zulip web app compose box
UX/UI design and html prototype

This was mostly html & css which should be integrated in the web app

Thinking of the next version of the plotting library for Antithesis

After making the first version I realized it had significant shortcomings and areas of inconvenience. Therefore, before embarking on the development of version 2, I decided to seek input from the Data Visualization DC audience.

Participated in Festive Wanders

A playful walk cycle challenge brought to you by @animadetv.
It's for everyone — no animation experience necessary!

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New website for Antithesis

The new website, a single page rich with crucial links and an engaging explainer video. The scripting and management of the explainer were handled by me, while Rocket Panda studio expertly executed the animation and illustration work (I prepared a good portion of mocks and diagrams for those key frames). Later the video would be updated to use anew logo 😉

By hand or by code - guess game

Fun party game to play with kids.
Can you guess if the picture was generated by "prompt" or by a real artist?

Product design and art direction for ERZ Online

Great logo by Lola

helped friends with online game creation, contributing to branding, story, concept art, the marketing website, and game UI for both desktop and mobile platforms. Later, the game development team pivoted to a different style and set of goals than originally envisioned.

Joined Zulip as contributing product designer

As a product designer, I am contributing to the enhancement of both web and mobile applications, as well as the marketing website for an open-source team chat product.

Showed amazingly cool Observable Plot to DataViz DC Meetup

Gave an Intro to Observable Notebooks for DataViz DC Meetup

Here is 1h 30m meetup recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPgVTQTETA where I give an intro to Observable and the great Amelia Wattenberger gives an intro to D3, which I use a lot 🤓

Organized remote UX Design Hackathon

I cheered up designers with creative competition because it's fun

About 300 participants (139 teams) produced awesome results remotely.

Joined Timestripe as contributing developer

Helped with product development and management of a productivity app

Goal-oriented planner Timestripe became #4 Product of the Week
in December 2020. Later I helped with some features of Timestripe Community including notes taking section which is based on Quill but heavily customized.

Joined Antithesis as product designer and developer

Full-time in amazing stealth mode B2B startup

Product design, data visualization and front-end development for the next generation of AI-driven QA software that will revolutionize the way software testing is performed.

Improvement to Blueprint JS

I've symbolized blueprint's .sketch library

Blueprint is a React-based UI toolkit for the web. But there were no components in Blueprint's .sketch file. Sketch allow reusing elements easily (place, resize, and change properties). So I "symbolized" (made reusable components) of all elements inside this great library for designers and developers.
I wrote a little article on how to do 2 icons button component in Sketch.

Mentor at Udacity AI Product Management Course

Helped students succeed in studying AI Product Management

Organized UX Design Hackathon

It was a great in-person event in Washington D.C.

After 12 months of design and product management event organization, I wanted to see something practical and fun. That is why I organized the Design Hackathon with the help of amazing partners (Optoro, Adobe, InVision, Sketch, Icons8, Sympli, Tilda Publishing, UXPressia, and others), judges and participants. 49 teams (200 registered participants) submitted their design solutions for 14 challenges. Here are the results.

Joined B2B2C Startup Audioburst as Product Analytics Consultant

Hands-on data analysts to lead and oversee data analysis processes

• Manage analytics implementations across desktop, mobile app platforms (iOS and Android), and internal projects across the organization.
• Define the vision for digital analytics reporting to support KPIs across the organization.
• Work with partners to Implement and validate new tagging requirements and fixes.
• Audit and define testing activities to ensure accurate and efficient data collection.
• Maintain data quality and ensure best in class analytics within reporting.
• Constantly assess customer needs, technology trends, and major competitors.

Tech stack:
Azure, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, KQL (Kusto Query Language), Klipfolio, Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Google Data Studio.

Making Tooltips for Better Data Context

Wrote the how-to article about Google Data Studio

Asana Counter Plugin

Asana tasks and points counter Chrome extension

Asana is a simple and powerful task management app. Unfortunately, there was no easy way to calculate tasks and points in Asana across columns in the board or even in a list view. To fix this viewing issue, I made a plugin and wrote an article with instructions about it. The source code is open, so if you want to submit/fix a bug or improve the plugin, feel free to do it in GitHub.

Wrote an article: How to organize files in a design agency

I interviewed the art director and wrote the article about file naming

Clay design agency decided to share part of their design process to help agencies and design teams all over the world create useful interfaces and applications.

Organized UX Conference in Washington DC

+ 3 customer journey mapping workshops

A conference around UX topics for about 100 people. I recruited speakers, found sponsor and promoted the conference. I also brought food, drinks and recorded videos ☺️.

Joined Boost Labs as Data Products Development Consultant

Managed implementation of data portals and data visualizations

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with developers / other project managers to ensure successful delivery for our clients.
• Participate in all phases of the SDLC: from requirements analysis through design, implementation, debugging, and testing.
• Client relationship management.
• Project reporting and summaries for management.

Qualifications/Background Profile:

• Ideal candidates will have a background in design, UI/UX, or big data.
• Experience with managing web and/or mobile projects using an Agile methodology such as Scrum or XP.
• VERY strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience eliciting and documenting system requirements and test plans.
• A healthy sense of humor.
• Plenty of attention to detail.

Tech stack:
AWS, Python, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, React, Vue, Tableau, Domo, Google Data Studio

Produced Trigono video game

Award wining brain boiling adventure with original techno music

After some time spent on promotion and marketing, I wrote a summary of my experience. Unfortunately, we were unable to allocate resources to upgrade the game to meet the latest iOS/Android requirements. Additionally, the developers struggled to port it to desktop, as the Haxe sound generation and rendering proved difficult to transfer.

Concept of Paper List App

Runner Up on Product Hunt Makers Festival

A lot of my work is 💻digital, but 📝paper gives freedom to 🧠think. Also paper is flexible, cheap, portable, any-size screen. I think it's time to have paper and ✓ to-do lists be 🔗synced.

Designed & Produced Flake Face App

Create creepy or beautiful snowflakes from your photos

Check out what is possible to create with this app in the Instagram

How to organize a local meetup remotely

Wrote an article about meetup organization for Miro blog

How to Use Icons on Landing Pages

Wrote an article about web design for Icons8 blog

Product Marketing Consultant for Tilda

I helped to test US marketing

• Promoted an article to get 26K new organic views and 6.2K likes.
• Promoted a subproduct to get 1K Upvotes and "Product of the day".
• Researched and tested PPC channels.
• Wrote and promoted articles (Icons8, RealtimeBoard)
• Spoke on the Found conference. Spoke on educational webinars.

Product Marketing Consultant for Metric.ai

I develop inbound leads machine for an early stage B2B Analytics startup which eventually will be a leading PSA

• Prototyped and launched 3 versions of the marketing website.
• Brough 230 inbound leads.
• Set up CRM and lead capture automation.
• Wrote 16 articles about metrics including GDPR instruction.
• Quora answers got 33K views.
• After July 2018 startup pivoted but the lead stream was enough to sustain
• product throughout the next 12 months.

Designed and managed development of PixelParade App

Collection of original stickers for iOS and Android

A user buys or downloads a set of stickers, emoji and GIF-images on different topics for free and uses them for online communication.

Directed design & development of the domestic work marketplace app for Indonesia

An Uber for home services with in-app chat

People of Indonesia require skilled local workers for technical housework ranging from renovations to satellite dish installation, and workers need to find customers.

Concept of Tourist Application with Augmented Reality

Inspired by the success of Pokemon Go

The concept of a mobile travel guide for any state or region. You can check-in and earn points near the sights. With the function of augmented reality the user "creates" virtual "sights" and participates in the quests. Photos and 3D objects found in quests can be shared in social networks. Live Typing came up with a design, a monetization method, marketing and developed the interactive prototype.

Business process automation for business class air flight booking agency

I did business analytics and architecture. In 12 months after starting more than 600 deals processes through the system and more than $1.5M.

CRM Pipedrive controls the chain of actions that are initiated by the auto-respond of an agent. Before ticket booking purchase department has all necessary passenger info and a paid invoice. Invoices processes automatically and controlled from the special panel of an agent. The passenger's info form sent with a triggered event from deal status change. For each deal, there are profits and costs calculations including agents commissions. Synchronization with the accounting system is configured.

Directed creation of educational marketplace
(an Uber for language learning programs for kids)

UX/UI design, development, first marketing campaign
Payments based on Stripe Connect

The main requirements were multiple language support, responsiveness, a convenient management system, a flexible curriculum filter and integration of a payment system that permitted transferring money to other companies.

Led app development agency rebranding

You can take a look at the new face of Live Typing on their website.
Rebranding is never easy, especially with internal resources.

Redesigned & managed development of Designet Analytics Clientside

HTML5 version of conference analytics and report generation service

In 2014, Flash started to give way to other web development standards, which is why the founder asked us to create HTML5 application so clients could work with it in modern browsers on their desktops and tablets. Enterprise technology is easier to sell with modern UI that works everywhere.

Gave a talk to students about agency work

HappyDevLite

Managed redesign and development of Accessibility Map App for Android

The app sponsored by Samsung

The project aims to provide people with disabilities with information on the available facilities of nearby urban infrastructure. "Accessibility Map" is unique since it is the first map of the available locations that is based on data received from the residents of Russian cities.

Directed the UX/UI design of a multitouch kiosk app for custom clothing prints

With the help of a kiosk multi-touch table stand, the user creates a design out of a wide selection of prints, stickers, labels and their own images to be heat-printed on T-shirts and phone cases.

Directed creation of the city app with AR mode

Before Apple's AR feature and before Goolge AR maps

The app for easy retrieval of places, sales, events. Augmented reality helps navigate through the city. Reviews and ratings shows the best places.

Prototyped and led design & development
of the FitFat Water balance

Liquid consumption tracker for iOS and Android

I wanted to create something more interesting than regular water tracker app. The competition was high so we came up with visually interesting liquid tracker app with gamification inside. You could pick from 5 virtual coaches which motivated and educated user.

Designed and managed the development of the iStirka App

Clothes label codes scanner to pick washing program for you

This useful app helps to do laundry the right way. Scan tags on your clothes with your smartphone camera and get the right washing machine program, with 600 programs for Indesit or Hotpoint-Ariston machines. We made an app for iOS and Android.

Managed the development of Kommersant App for Android

Featured by Google as one of the best apps in 2014

Official Android app of publishing house «Kommersant»: business and political news, reports, analytical articles, materials of all editions in one app, ability to listen to the radio, buy and download latest and old issues of the magazines

Managed the development of the Breath Alcohol Monitor Lapka for Android

Lapka was acquired by AirBnB in 2015

Android app for wireless Breathalyzer Lapka (not Bluetooth but sound). It decodes the signal and explains the results by changing the font size, intonation and the meaning of the messages depending on the percentage of alcohol in the blood.

Directed the development of the Vogue Collections App

Featured by Apple in the fashion category

The app gives you easy, comfortable and unlimited access to the picture library of the runway shows, back-stages, and front-row faces. Complete fashion collections archive of the previous seasons. Bookmarks and offline mode.

Designed and managed the Chronometry

Windows phone app. Featured by Microsoft in productivity section.

The App measured time and money spent on different tasks.

Designed and managed Live Graffiti for Android

Android app had more than 250,000 downloads

Live Graffiti is a unique application for drawing which remembers the process of your art creation and then performs it as a cartoon. Send live graffiti to a friend, and he will watch you draw from the first stroke to the last.

Co-founder & COO of Live Typing

Among clients: Sephora, Pepsico, Hasbro, Samsung, Conde Nast, Groupon

Agency of web, social and mobile apps creation. I co-founded it with Eugene (CMO) and Alexandr (CEO). Take a look at the portfolio of projects, many of which I produced / directed. In general my responsibility was leading design & development and everything related 😄

Live Graffiti

Social drawing app with 7,000,000 users

I designed interface, did front-end development and managed advertising campaigns for big brands like 3M, Puma, Samsung, AVON, ViewSonic, Wacom

UX/UIDesign & Front-end Development of conference call analytics and reporting product

Enterprise application used by Fortune 500 companies

Flex & Mate frameworks, dynamic app branding, float layout, batch operations including renaming.

Developed Transformation Tool for Moto CMS

Wrote the code of the component for graphic objects manipulation

Multiple objects could be selected and modified (such options as transformation, rotation, resizing, alignment). The objects could snap to each other and the website center or edges within the control panel.

Developed Sony Music Visualization

A real time visualization app for Sony to monitor the pulse of their global digital product supply chain. The Pulse app was placed on a big TV in Sony Music office.

This was done in Adobe Flex. I remember that animation performance and state management were a bit tricky 😁

Developed a touchscreen map for a park
before iPhone era

The app was installed on stationary computers in the park in Italy

Front-end developer and UX/UI designer

Freelance work in Adobe Flash and Flash Builder using Flex

I was working through Odesk (Upwork).

Accepting wedding photography gigs

After taking photography classes and shooting photos of friends for some time, I started shooting weddings and retouching photos in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

Mover at Countrywide Moving & Storage

3 months Work & Travel USA program

I learned a lot about life in the USA while moving between various houses in Pennsylvania and New York.

Made 3d cartoon in Blender v1.6

I'm not 100% sure about the exact version of Blender 😄

Unfortunately, I don't have the cartoon rendered. What I do remember is that it was the best among my peers. It was a summer camp with access to computers, where we were taught programming in C (which I didn't enjoy much at the time) and 3D modeling in Blender (which I absolutely loved).

While the other kids in class created what was asked – 'Make a 3D scene and fly through it with a camera' – I used multiple cameras and incorporated slow motion. After watching The Matrix and playing Max Payne, I thought slow motion was the coolest effect I could pull off. My animation was about a snowboarder, even though I had never snowboarded at that time.

Drawing graffiti from time to time

We didn't do anything illegal. I mostly drew graffiti in my notepad. Spray paint was quite expensive. I remember we did this in October, and it was a bit cold, so my fingers were freezing, and the spraying wasn't very good.
On the photo is my friend Vova (I'm taking the photo).

Learning Macromedia Flash

Later will be acquired by Adobe

Downloading cool websites from FWA (like Nike Freestyle) using a dial-up modem, so I can enjoy them anytime I want...

Learning Adobe Photoshop 5 and HTML

Extracting images from the background is a mastery

Watching everything that artlebedev studio creates and writes.