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Ilya Sizov, Designer in New York, NY, United States
Ilya Sizov

Designer in New York, NY, United States

Member since April 1, 2020
Ilya is a digital designer with more than a decade of experience in UI/UX, web, and mobile app design. His experience spans across digital agencies where he worked for clients like Unilever, Panasonic, WWF, among others to fast-paced international startups where he led marketing and product design. Ilya is passionate about crafting engaging experiences by means of appealing and polished visual design.
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Employment

  • Design Lead

    2019 - PRESENT
    Smartcat
    • Revised and solidified the brand identity, built cohesive and scalable guidelines to be used across all marketing communications (social media, newsletters, banner campaigns).
    • Created the design system for the company’s marketing website; created and implemented UI components library that allows building new pages quickly and easily. Thanks to this easier content delivery process and mobile-friendly design system, the website traffic doubled rising from 50,000 to 110,000+ unique visitors monthly.
    • Redesigned the newsletter templates and collaborated with developers to establish an easy-to-implement email component system.
    • Implemented web UI improvements and visual guidelines for the company’s blog—helping it to grow the audience from 4,000 to 58,000 in ten months.
    • Led the super-fast design of identity, website, emails, and other marketing materials for LocFromHome—the biggest online conference in the industry (2340 attendees from 97 countries, 34 speakers, and 12 hours of non-stop streaming).
    Technologies: Principle, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Figma

  • Design Director

    2016 - 2018
    Fasten
    • Led the complete overhaul of the mobile app for iOS and Android. The app was downloaded over 1 million times since the launch and had over 50,000 monthly active users.
    • Redesigned the marketing website to align it with the values and culture of the company. The website, apart from giving all the necessary information, conveyed the idea of a new approach to ride-hailing where driver’s happiness was the priority and everyone benefited from it.
    • Revised and updated the company identity guidelines to make the visual language more consistent, scalable, and easy to use.
    • Art-directed numerous advertising campaigns, both online and offline, seen by hundreds of thousands of people. That included the remarkable marketing campaign of Fasten being the main SXSW-2017 ride-hailing partner.
    • Led the improvements of the drivers’ app which included user research, user interviews, and quantitative data research alongside rethinking and redesigning the app for riders.
    Technologies: InVision, Adobe After Effects, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Framer, Principle, Sketch
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Education

  • Curator of the UX/UI design course in Creativity and Advertising
    2014 - 2015
    The School of Creative Thinking IKRA - Moscow, Russia
  • Postgraduate diploma in Graphic Design
    2008 - 2009
    British Higher School of Art and Design - Moscow, Russia
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy
    2002 - 2009
    Moscow State University - Moscow, Russia

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New York, NY, United States

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