Ivan Annikov

Designer

San Francisco, CA, United States

Member since October 24, 2015

Ivan has been working at Silicon Valley startups since 2011. His core competencies are in UX, interaction, and UI design of both web and mobile software products. In the past 4 years, he's been primarily focusing on the UX/UI design of SaaS products for the enterprise. Ivan also helps his clients with design and development of marketing sites, including sites built on WordPress and Webflow.

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Portfolio

Employment

Lead Product Designer
2014 - 2016
LeadGenius
- 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
2014 - 2014
Entio
- 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
2013 - 2014
Kabuto
- 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
2012 - 2013
Wallit!
- 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)
2012 - 2012
GrowMobile
- 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

How to Conduct Effective UX Research – A Guide (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/user-research/budget-ux-user-research
Effective user research doesn’t have to cost a fortune. In fact, there are many low-cost methods available to designers, all of which will put a designer on the road to designing better products.

Education

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

Experience

User Experience (UX)8 years
SaaS4 years
InVision4 years
Sketch3 years

Tools

Sketch
InVision