About me?

My Story

I never Really thought I would become a product designer

This is how it happened

I knew I wanted to be a designer when in high school I watched the Helvetica documentary. I went on to study graphic design in university and at the time was fascinated by typography and edgy contemporary imagery and thought I would work at an agency on branding and print projects.

However, as a part of my required learnings at university, I ended up taking some programming courses. In particular, the web design course, where I started learning the basics of front-end dev, which blew my mind.

Being able to do a bit of coding, led to me working on a few web design projects. Eventually I became a fully-fledged product designer.

Today, I love being able to use my knowledge of programming to ensure a smoother dev handoff, be able to finesse technical elements, create functional components and beautiful interactions and work on design systems. Learning about user research, product roadmapping and user testing has also been a blast.

Some things I did along the way

  1. Had a poster of mine exhibited in a museum in Germany

  1. Met Irma Boom — the Queen of Books — twice

  1. Became an American citizen

  1. Mentored a few people

  1. Almost did an art residency in Italy

  1. Kept working on my coding and animation skills

My values

Facts + Stats + Contact Info

Skills

Wireframing

Prototyping

User Research

User Testing

UI/Visual Design

Branding

Animation

Toolbox

Figma

HTML + CSS + Javascript

Protopie

Adobe Creative Suite

After Effects

Webflow

Pen + Paper

Mentorship

Boston University
Guest Critic, May 2021

Parsons School of Design
Guest Critic, June 2022

New York University
ITP Summer Camp 2023
Guest Talk

School of Visual Arts
Guest Critic, December 2024

Ivan Aleksandrov 2023(C)

Ivan Aleksandrov 2023(C)

Ivan Aleksandrov 2023(C)