Kirill Gurianov

Role: Product Designer & Design System Engineer

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (Open to Remote)

Summary

Product Designer with 7+ years of experience designing end-to-end experiences across mobile and web, and leading design systems for complex, data-heavy B2B/B2G products. Proven track record in usability testing, legacy system audits, and accelerating product team velocity—including leading a design system for a company with 40+ products. Over the past 1.5 years, developed full-stack skills and built solo products from concept to first users.

Experience

Solopreneur / Product Designer & Engineer

Wande.app & TheUICodex.org | Sep 2024 - Present

Single-handedly designed, developed, and launched products from initial concept to production-ready code and first users.
Integrated AI tools into the design workflow, increasing iteration speed and reducing time from concept to interactive prototype.
Developed a React-based prototyping approach that helps UX/UI designers with no coding background create interactive, production-realistic prototypes faster.

Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

Megapolis-IT | Aug 2022 - Sep 2024

Designed and maintained a design system for an urban infrastructure company with 40+ products.
Audited legacy libraries, removed duplicates, and improved system structure using Figma Variables, design tokens, Auto Layout, and Variants.
Migrated 6 flagship products to the new design system over two years, increasing design team productivity by 4x with no drop in engineering velocity.
Defined foundational UI rules and wrote usage guidelines for designers and developers to improve consistency, accessibility, and system adoption.

Senior Product Designer

Megapolis-IT | May 2020 - Aug 2022

Led the product design for complex, data-heavy B2B/B2G platforms from initial concept to becoming the company's most valuable flagship assets.
Pioneered core interaction models that reshaped the daily workflows of city traffic engineers.
Designed systems whose output became the foundation for cutting-edge products from top tech innovators, including serving as the core street data source for Yandex Navigator.

UX/UI Designer

TheBestApp | Oct 2018 - May 2020

Designed 10+ B2C native mobile applications for iOS and Android, including an e-commerce retail platform, a scooter-sharing service, and a real estate classified app.
Created a corporate mobile application for an international metallurgical company (NLMK).
Mentored by industry-leading Product Owners (creators of SberBank Online), gaining deep, practical expertise in world-class agile product execution and high-performing team management.
Conducted lightweight usability testing and user interviews with focus groups to validate prototypes and proactively resolve usability issues prior to development.
Built and maintained scalable UI kits for iOS and Android, ensuring strict cross-platform visual consistency and accelerating post-MVP feature development.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Architecture - Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (NNGASU) | 2013 - 2018
Architecture Internship (1 year) - Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG), France | 2017

Core Skills

Product Design: User Flows, Wireframing, UX Research, Usability Testing, Mobile (iOS/Android) and Web UI, Accessibility (WCAG).
Design Systems: Design Tokens, Variables, Component Properties, Auditing, Documentation, Cross-team Governance.
Tools & Tech: Figma, Cursor, OpenCode, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Miro, HTML, CSS, React, Next.js, Storybook.js, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Convex, Supabase.

Languages

Russian: Native
English: Intermediate (B1) - advanced technical reading/writing, intermediate spoken.