Igor Starkov

Product Designer

About

Senior Product Designer with experience in designing and implementing design systems, developing user interfaces, and conducting user research.

Work

Xsolla
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Senior Product Designer

Summary

Xsolla is a payment processing service for online games, founded in 2005 in Russia. Xsolla's headquarters are located in Los Angeles, with offices in Perm and Seoul. Xsolla's partners include Steam, Twitch.tv, Epic Games, Gaijin, Xiaomi, Neople, Ubisoft, PUBG Corporation, and others.

Alfa-Bank
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Senior Product Designer

Summary

Alfa-Bank is the largest private bank in Russia, ranking fourth in terms of assets. In 2023, the number of the bank's private clients reached 30 million, and the number of SME clients reached 1.6 million. It has 499 offices. Recognized several times as Bank of the Year, its mobile app has also been highly rated by the professional community for several years in a row. In 2020, Alfa-Bank opened the first phygital office in Russia.

VTB Investments
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Senior Product Designer and Design System Designer

Summary

Worked on the "My Investments" app with MAU of 821,875 (as of early 2022). Responsibilities included redesigning the design system, developing and implementing new stock buying and selling screens (UI and UX) for both light and pro interfaces, and communication design. Led design solutions, made rational decisions on unsuccessful experiments, and improved the existing design system. Engaged in research, prototyping, and user testing of concepts. Designed interaction scenarios, organized interactions with

Positive Technologies
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Senior Product Designer

Summary

The company's sales volume was 7.9 billion rubles in 2021. Created unified UX design guidelines that specified visual design and interaction principles for the product. Developed wireframes, user flows, concept sketches, interactive prototypes, and visual designs. Improved the existing design system and completely redesigned the company's website. Led communication design for PT's media resources (YouTube, X, etc.).

duotek.ru
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Principal Multidisciplinary Designer

Summary

Worked on tenders, startups, branding, websites, and apps for iOS and Android. Responsible for maintaining design consistency across iOS, Android, and web platforms. Implemented and maintained a design system in Figma. Developed wireframes, user flows, concept sketches, interactive prototypes, and visual designs. Contributed to the design system development.

Education

Ulyanovsk State University, Faculty of Culture and Art

Master's Degree

Design

Skills

Product Design
UX

Usability and concept testing, User Research, Prototyping, Miro, Figma, midjourney.

UI
Cross Functional Collaboration

Confluence, JIRA, Trello.

Leadership
Design Systems
Lean Canvas
Service Blueprint
Jobs-to-be-Done

HADI, JTBD, CJM, GOMS, OKR, Kano, Agile, Scrum, OKR, KPI, A/B test, MVP, Lean Startup.

Strategy
Roadmap
Prioritization
Product Discovery
Documentation
Brand guidelines

Projects

UX Research Course by Alina Ermakova

Summary

Bang Bang Education, School of Design and Technology

Design System Course

Summary

Contented

Design Management Patterns