Vova Safonov

Product Design Manager and Leader

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I'm a product design leader and I love to design great teams and help them shine

I'm a product design leader and I love to design great teams and help them shine

2024 — now

I focus on making AI interactions more intuitive for users, exploring innovative ways AI personas can better meet and address human needs.

2024 — now

I focus on making AI interactions more intuitive for users, exploring innovative ways AI personas can better meet and address human needs.

2024 — now

I focus on making AI interactions more intuitive for users, exploring innovative ways AI personas can better meet and address human needs.

2022 — now

I'm running a part of the online Design Management course in Projector Institute trying to level up and inspire young design leaders in the management craft and show the people-oriented part of it.

2022 — now

I'm running a part of the online Design Management course in Projector Institute trying to level up and inspire young design leaders in the management craft and show the people-oriented part of it.

2022 — now

I'm running a part of the online Design Management course in Projector Institute trying to level up and inspire young design leaders in the management craft and show the people-oriented part of it.

2021 — 2023

As a Head of Product Design I’m focused on inspiring and empowering my team.I believe that great teams create great products and people need to be managed well so they can have psychological safety to be creative, reach their full potential and be inspired by the company mission.

2021 — 2023

As a Head of Product Design I’m focused on inspiring and empowering my team.I believe that great teams create great products and people need to be managed well so they can have psychological safety to be creative, reach their full potential and be inspired by the company mission.

2021 — 2023

As a Head of Product Design I’m focused on inspiring and empowering my team.I believe that great teams create great products and people need to be managed well so they can have psychological safety to be creative, reach their full potential and be inspired by the company mission.

2020 — 2022

I've been a partner in a design school. We had from 8 to 10 courses in hand, more than 20 top professionals lecturing and helped more than 300 designers with their development. Closed due to the war.

2020 — 2022

I've been a partner in a design school. We had from 8 to 10 courses in hand, more than 20 top professionals lecturing and helped more than 300 designers with their development. Closed due to the war.

2020 — 2022

I've been a partner in a design school. We had from 8 to 10 courses in hand, more than 20 top professionals lecturing and helped more than 300 designers with their development. Closed due to the war.

2021

I've created a year course programm inside our company, where you could learn from our coworkers on different parts of product creation process. That included around 80 lectures on Design, Illustration, Animation, Marketing, Product Management and Soft Skills lectured by the team of 20 'readdlers'.

2021

I've created a year course programm inside our company, where you could learn from our coworkers on different parts of product creation process. That included around 80 lectures on Design, Illustration, Animation, Marketing, Product Management and Soft Skills lectured by the team of 20 'readdlers'.

2021

I've created a year course programm inside our company, where you could learn from our coworkers on different parts of product creation process. That included around 80 lectures on Design, Illustration, Animation, Marketing, Product Management and Soft Skills lectured by the team of 20 'readdlers'.

2019 — 2021

The synergy of the design system, development and our team allowed me to start massive look and feel redesign and make it comparatively cheap. With a team we made a really neat both visual and usability update with a bunch of usefull features for the super-pupular iOS file-manager.

2019 — 2021

The synergy of the design system, development and our team allowed me to start massive look and feel redesign and make it comparatively cheap. With a team we made a really neat both visual and usability update with a bunch of usefull features for the super-pupular iOS file-manager.

2019 — 2021

The synergy of the design system, development and our team allowed me to start massive look and feel redesign and make it comparatively cheap. With a team we made a really neat both visual and usability update with a bunch of usefull features for the super-pupular iOS file-manager.

2018 — 2019

I was responsible for designing the full PDF viewer, establishing the style basis for the product, and creating a new design workflow and integrated a team of designers to continue the work together after.

2018 — 2019

I was responsible for designing the full PDF viewer, establishing the style basis for the product, and creating a new design workflow and integrated a team of designers to continue the work together after.

2018 — 2019

I was responsible for designing the full PDF viewer, establishing the style basis for the product, and creating a new design workflow and integrated a team of designers to continue the work together after.

UX Design Course

2019 — 2022

I created a UX course from scratch and gathered an awesome superstar team of 9 lecturers. It was a really breaking through course which have no analogs in our city and we raised up a bunch of very strong professionals.

Mobile Design Course

2018 — 2022

I led a course for those who want to master iOS and Android guidelines fast and dive even deeper into tips and tricks how to save money on development working with mobile.

Renta.im

2018

Led design efforts for a marketing automation startup that achieved stable revenue growth through successful client acquisition and retention. My designs helped to increas customer engagement and self-assisted service, resulting in increased revenue.

Louder.me

2017

As the sole product designer I led the product design process from ideation to release for a unique music streaming service that incorporated mini-games and a variety of social features.

Moe misto

2016

"Moe misto" is an online crowdfunding and collaboration platform that gets citizens to create and implement projects to make their city more livable.

CherryTea

2015

A charity project helping people to collaborate and deliver clothes, shoes, toys and other necessary things to those who cannot afford them.

Topor News

2012

I was lucky that the task was too broad so I could do things right way: define the problem and solve it. I hope that's why it's still alive.