Ilya Polyak

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Senior Product Designer | UX/UI Leader

Senior product designer with 10+ years of experience in mobile and web app UI/UX design, having a proven ability to lead projects end-to-end, from ideation to implementation, including metrics optimisation. Expertise both in user-centered design approach, including wireframing, prototyping, JTBD, user interviewing and UX-testing, and in delivering stunning visual UI designs. Designed and oversaw the launch of a social functionality for the Sweatcoin app, resulting in 4% increase in app openings. Restructured the Insense app which resulted in a 12.3 pp growth in send offer conversion.

Projects

Sweatcoin

As part of the Sweatcoin team, I recognised a need to boost user engagement within the health app. I decided to introduce various challenges to increase interaction among users, following insights gained from user interviews and studying competitor apps. I designed and tested several prototypes, eventually leading to the development of a streamlined challenge feature. Additionally, I introduced a social tab to improve friend connectivity. Post-launch, more than 60,000 people actively participated in the race challenge. Within the first month of the launch, there was a noticeable increase of 4% in app openings.See More

Work History

Senior Product Designer

KleeneApr 2022 - Apr 2023 • 1 yr 1 moKleene, a B2B SAAS start-up based in London, UK. The app can ingest data from 120+ sources, master it using SQL and then present business insights in a visualisation tool of choice. I was the sole-designer and owned all the UX/UI design decisions for the Kleene web app. Through UX prototyping and user interviews, I have tested over 5 hypotheses and designed UI/UX improvements based on the findings, which led to a 20% increase in the NPS metric. Created an enterprise-level design system using the Tailwind UI framework. Led efforts to supervise an external design studio to extend our design function capacity and pursue new concepts.

Senior Product Designer

Insense | TikTok & Meta PartnerJun 2021 - Mar 2022 • 10 mosInsense is a primary platform for D2C, Amazon brands, and 1400+ companies to create user content and ads on Instagram and TikTok. I worked end-to-end on a project of refining the UI/UX of an existing mobile app, while recruiting and managing a junior product designer. Restructured the existing app, refined all user journeys and tweaked the look-n-feel by using a user centered design approach, including UX wireframing, prototyping and user interviews, which resulted in a 12.3 pp growth in send offer conversion. Hired and managed a product designer to streamline the workflow. Updated the current design system to match the new appearance and functionality of the app.

Senior Product Designer

SweatcoinSep 2020 - Feb 2021 • 6 mosA mobile app with over 120M users that uses physical activity to earn digital currency. I owned the design process for the social part of the app, delivering important mobile app features, while working as a member of a team, consisting of 4 product designers and a design lead. Using a user centered design approach, I designed and launched the challenges functionality, resulting in a 4% increase in app openings and over 60,000 people participating in the race challenge in the first month after launch. Designed and launched the New Year's resolution feature by using a UCD approach, which resulted in an average of 5,000 resolutions being set daily in the first month after release. Contributed to building the first version of the design system, including buttons, alignment guide, currency texts, tags and navigation elements.

Product Designer

Trucker PathFeb 2017 - Jan 2018 • 1 yrSoftware platform for the trucking industry, providing navigational assistance and truckload sourcing for 35% of the US market, with 1M MAU. Acquired by RenRen in 2017. I was working as a member of a team, consisting of 3 product designers and 1 marketing designer. Designed the 'truck search' feature used daily by 200+ companies across the industry. Designed the 'bidding feature' with 3K requests in the first 2 weeks with 30% fulfillment rate. Designed a new load posting UI decreasing the load posting time by 10%.

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Top EarnerHas earned $10k+ on Pangea.

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Education

State University Higher School of Economics

Bachelor's degree, Business Informatics2005 - 2009

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