Ivan Annikov

Designer

San Francisco, United States

Member since October 24, 2015

Ivan is an experienced product designer with an entrepreneurial spirit, proven leadership abilities, and a thorough understanding of business fundamentals. His core competencies are in user experience, interaction, and interface design for both web and mobile platforms. Since relocating to Silicon Valley in 2011, he's worked with multiple startups in verticals ranging from ad tech and social networking to enterprise and SMB SaaS.

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Employment

Lead Product Designer
LeadGenius
2014 - 2016
- Designed all aspects of an internal platform for managing sales lead data.
- Created all aspects of an outreach product and conducted user testing sessions.
- Worked closely with two of the founders on new product initiatives.
- Collaborated with the marketing team on the re-design of the LeadGenius marketing website.
- Designed and helped launch a client-facing dashboard.
Technologies: Skecth, GitHub, Jira, Photoshop, InVision
Design Co-Founder
Entio
2014 - 2014
- Conducted initial user research to validate product assumptions.
- Designed clickable prototypes to test specific user flows.
- Created all aspects of the client-facing web app for restaurant owners.
- Designed all aspects of a consumer-facing iOS app.
- Hired two engineers to join the team and guided them along the way to build a better product.
- Conducted post-launch user testing to collect insights from the first clients.
Technologies: Sketch, GitHub, Photoshop, InVision, iOS
Sr. Interface Designer
Kabuto
2013 - 2014
- Worked along side the VP of Design and another senior designer to launch an iOS app.
- Spearheaded product design efforts of the Android app.
- On-boarded and mentored junior designers.
- Conducted usability studies of Kabuto's mobile apps.
- Worked on adapting the company's Android app to tablets.
Technologies: Sketch, Photoshop, Android, iOS, Jira
Lead UX/UI Designer
Wallit!
2012 - 2013
- Conducted user research prior to designing a new iOS app in the social networking space.
- Collaborated with the founder and core engineering team to flush out product details.
- Created interactive prototypes to get additional validation of specific product features from potential users.
- Designed all aspects of the first version of the iOS app.
- Worked with the marketing team to design the necessary promo materials for the app's launch.
Technologies: Photoshop, iOS, Illustrator, User Testing
Interface Designer (Contract)
GrowMobile
2012 - 2012
- Worked closely with the founders to build out the first version of the product in mobile advertising space.
- Designed multiple variations of client-facing dashboard that contained complex user flows.
- Created all of the visual concepts for the product interface.
- Collaborated with the core engineering team to get all of the product designs into production.
- Helped GrowMobile build and launch its platform in a short period of time.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop

Other Experience

Going Guerrilla: Affordable UX Research Tips And Alternatives (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux/budget-ux-user-research
There are plenty of methods for conducting user research; however, many of these methods are resource-intensive and can be slow. In other words, they tend to be expensive and take a while to implement. This means many projects are often completed without any research, and this may prove problematic on many levels. User research doesn’t have to cost a fortune, though. In this post, Toptal Freelance Designer Ivan Annikov explains how it’s possible to conduct a sufficient amount of user research without burning heaps of money in the process.

Education

Master's degree in Marketing
Maastricht University - Maastricht, Netherlands
2010 - 2011
Bachelor's degree in International Studies and Communications
Oglethorpe University - Atlanta, GA (USA)
1995 - 1999

Experience

User Experience (UX)8 years
HTML7 years
Web Apps7 years
SaaS4 years
iOS4 years

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