Andrii Danilov

Senior/Principal Product Designer — 11+ yrs. Fintech, platforms, design systems

About

I’m Andrii Danilov — a Kyiv-born product & brand designer who’s spent the past decade translating complex ideas into clear, confident experiences. Every interface, for me, carries a silent narrative: small rhythms that guide, reassure, and sometimes quietly surprise.

My work spans fintech dashboards, underground parties, and grassroots start-ups — always balancing rigorous systems with moments of human warmth. Whenever someone pauses and says, “That just feels right,” my cheeks still flush; that hint of shyness reminds me why I design in the first place.

Philosophy

What I optimize for

  • Clarity over cleverness
    If it explains itself, it’s good. If it teaches, it’s great.

  • Sustainability, truth, balance
    Improve what exists before inventing anew.

  • Dignity by design
    Human life is sacred; nature is no less sacred. Products should respect both.

  • Systems with soul
    Strong systems create room for warmth — not the other way around.

  • Longevity
    Great design shouldn’t need radical redesigns. It should evolve without drama.

  • Bias to action
    A designer doesn’t need permission to solve problems — only responsibility.

How I work

  • Understand how the thing works (end-to-end), name what matters, reduce what doesn’t, then ship with care.

  • Measure, learn, refine; repeat — without theatrics.

Work Experience

Senior Designer, Humanity Protocol

2024–2025

Led brand, web, and growth design for a high-scale, privacy-first tech project. Built the first public experience fast, then matured it into a reliable, extensible system across site, campaigns, and community touchpoints.

Responsibilities

  • Led the design stream across web, brand, motion, and growth assets.

  • Shipped the v1 website (architecture, design, front-end implementation support).

  • Built the initial design system and design-code pipeline for rapid iteration.

  • Partnered with engineering on performance, accessibility, and analytics.

  • Stood up campaign pages, sign-up flows, and content templates for the team.

  • Established guidelines for visual tone, typography, and component usage.

  • Orchestrated agency/vendor handoffs and QC.

Achievements

  • Launched the first full website in 5 days from concept to deploy.

  • Helped drive 500k+ waitlist registrations in the first weeks after launch.

  • Created the system foundation that enabled fast page/campaign rollout and consistent quality.

Senior UX/UI Designer, Artkai (ProCredit Bank)

2024

Designed the foundation for a multinational bank’s next-gen retail experience: a modular design system and architecture enabling swift expansion into new countries with local compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Established a design system and usage guidelines for web & mobile.

  • Architected modular flows and components for rapid multi-market rollout.

  • Merged best practices from leading fintechs with user feedback/testing.

  • Collaborated with analytics, legal/compliance, and engineering.

  • Led the design team and delivered production-ready specs and assets.

Achievements

  • Delivered a reusable component library that reduced duplication and sped delivery across markets.

  • Unified design, compliance, and development into a single, scalable source of truth.

  • Shipped country-ready flows and documentation that shortened onboarding for new teams.

E-commerce Product Manager, White Sprut

2022–present

Product lead and designer for a Ukrainian organic cosmetics brand. I own storefront experience, growth experiments, and operational quality from catalog to checkout.

Responsibilities

  • Product strategy, roadmap, and KPI ownership for the Shopify store.

  • UX/UI for homepage, PDP, cart/checkout, and post-purchase flows.

  • Conversion optimization: navigation, search, bundles, cross-sell/upsell.

  • CRM & lifecycle: email/SMS flows, promotions, loyalty concepts.

  • Catalog structure, product data quality, and merchandising.

  • Payments & logistics integrations (incl. Monobank Checkout).

  • Analytics stack, A/B tests, and weekly insights reviews.

Achievements

  • Launched the new Shopify storefront end-to-end — product management, UX/UI, front-end, SEO, and growth ops.

  • Improved checkout clarity and reduced friction (fewer support touches).

  • Drove increases in key metrics — conversion — 4% and average order value — $25.

  • Defined a 3-year growth strategy: phased CRO roadmap, retention & loyalty design, and a Kyiv-born premium cosmetics & goods marketplace (brand platform, supplier onboarding model, and launch milestones mapped).

Founder & Art Director, For Friends (café • bar • co-working • gallery)

2022–2024

For Friends was an ecosystem for connection — a hospitality, culture, and design experiment. I set the concept, brand, and experience, then ran it day-to-day with a small team.

Responsibilities

  • Brand & concept: name, narrative, visual language, tone.

  • Interior & experience design: layout, light, signage, tactile details.

  • Creative direction: menus, photography, social, campaigns.

  • Community & programming: open mics, small exhibitions, collaborations.

  • Operations: hiring, onboarding, vendor relations, and process design.

Achievements

  • Built a recognizable neighborhood spot known for its personality and curation.

  • Ran a steady program of events and collaborations with local creators.

  • Turned a design vision into a living, sustainable operation.

  • Staged 30+ community events (open mics, small exhibitions) with repeat attendance and returning partners.

  • Systematized operations (team onboarding, vendor playbooks, cost controls) to keep quality high with a small team.

  • Developed a replicable brand & experience kit (interior cues, menu system, signage, tone) to enable a second location/community spinoff.

Chief Product Officer, MeMusic

2022–2023

Owned the product vision and roadmap for a music platform spanning listening, creation, and marketplace features.

Responsibilities

  • Defined product strategy, KPIs, and sequencing from MVP to scale.

  • Led cross-functional squads (design, engineering, content, data).

  • Ran competitor and market analysis to identify category openings.

  • Orchestrated GTM with marketing and partnerships.

Achievements

  • Shipped core listening and creator flows for MVP.

  • Prioritized a feature set that positioned the product against major players.

  • Established a product development cadence and review ritual the org could trust.

Chief Design Officer, MeMusic

2021–2022

Built the design function and a unified system across web, iOS, Android, and marketplace.

Responsibilities

  • Created Krypton, the design system (foundations, components, patterns).

  • Led end-to-end design for streaming apps and the music/NFT marketplace.

  • Managed designers, crits, QA, and design-to-dev handoff.

  • Introduced motion and content guidelines for a cohesive experience.

Achievements

  • Launched multi-platform app experiences and the marketplace alpha.

  • Reduced design/development cycle time via systemized components.

  • Established a consistent brand feel across all surfaces.

Head of Design, The Minimal

2019–2022

Partner-level role shaping the studio’s quality bar, operations, and delivery across finance, e-commerce, analytics, and culture.

Responsibilities

  • Led the design team; instituted QA and review processes.

  • Set studio objectives, hiring profiles, and working principles.

  • Directed key client engagements and oversaw delivery to production.

  • Built strong client relationships through direct strategy and critique.

Achievements

  • Shipped work for the National Bank of Ukraine, Alpha Catering Equipment (AU), Sense360 (US HoReCa analytics platform), and a Kuwait aqua park (web, e-commerce, and art direction).

  • Scaled a reliable internal process from brief to production-ready output.

  • Bootstrapped and scaled during the pandemic — operated self-funded and grew x7 times while maintaining delivery quality.

Senior UX/UI Designer, First Ukrainian International Bank (PUMB)

2019

Improved internal tooling and established a foundational design system.

Responsibilities

  • Designed internal UIs for branches and support operations.

  • Led the creation and approval of the bank’s initial design system.

  • Ran front-end design reviews prior to launches.

Achievements

  • Standardized interface patterns across teams and projects.

  • Raised usability and reduced inconsistency in internal tools.

  • Founded the bank’s first design system and formalized cross-team collaboration (design ↔ product ↔ engineering).

  • Redesigned and launched the Viber bot within the first two months, increasing release cadence.

  • Delivered five products in parallel — founding designer on two net-new initiatives; three existing products upgraded and unified to the new system.

  • Introduced a major patterns upgrade (states, review rituals, documentation) that lifted speed and consistency across teams.

Senior UX/UI Designer, Renaissance Life

2018

Modernized digital journeys for a life-insurance provider — from quoting to policy management.

Responsibilities

  • Designed quote, onboarding, and policy self-service flows (web/mobile).

  • Streamlined agent/CRM dashboards for daily workflows.

  • Produced specs, states, and documentation for engineering.

Achievements

  • Shipped clearer purchase and service flows, reducing avoidable support.

  • Led a large-scale brand refresh and founded the org’s first design system.

  • Introduced workflow automations and cross-team communication practices built around the design system, speeding subsequent releases.

Achievements

  • Government & public sector:
    6 projects (incl. national-level initiatives).

  • Banking & fintech:
    2 banks shipped (design systems + product interfaces).

  • Scale moments:
    helped launch initiatives seen by tens of millions.

  • Industries touched:
    10+ — fintech, e-commerce, govtech, culture, health, music tech, web3, hospitality, and more.

  • Wordwide:
    Ukraine, EU, US, Australia, MENA.

  • 200+ projects
    shipped across 12 years

  • 930 000

    Views on Unsplash
  • 145 000

    Views on Dribbble

Collaborations & Partners

Public & non-profit

  • National Bank of Ukraine

  • Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

  • Ministry of Culture of Ukraine

  • Alliance for Public Health

  • BUIC

Commercial & tech

  • ProCredit Bank

  • PUMB

  • Everstake

  • KUNA

  • Lightlink

  • Tezos

  • Alpha Catering Equipment

  • Sense360

With Purpose

Drugstore Project — Alliance for Public Health, ICF

Volunteer UX/UI for mobile applications focused on harm reduction, sex education, and public health. Featured: Free2Ask for Android & iOS.

Aid For Ukraine — Ministry of Digital x KUNA x FTX x Everstake

Rapid crypto-fund initiative launched in the second week of the full-scale invasion, channeling global support at scale; later merged into the United24 ecosystem (work pre-merge; no direct collaboration with the United24 team).

Save Ukrainian Culture — Ministry of Culture x Everstake

Charitable initiative to preserve museum collections and artworks across Ukraine.

Help Ukraine with Crypto — Tezos Foundation

Rapid-response effort enabling donations and awareness in the first week of the invasion.

Stack

Design

Figma, Framer, Webflow, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity Designer/Publisher/Photo

Animation & Motion

Lottie (Creator), Haiku Animator, Spline, Jitter, Apple Motion, After Effects, Principle

Front-end & Ops

VS Code, Cursor, Zed, Git, Vercel, Docker, CodeKit

HTML/CSS, Sass, Next.js, Liquid, Shopify

3D

Spline, 3ds Max, Cinema4D, AutoCAD, Maya, Blender

AI

ChatGPT, LM Studio, MacWhisper, Jupyter Notebooks

Management & Docs

Jira, Confluence, ClickUp, Monday, Notion, GSuite, Office 365, iWork

Audio & Video

Logic Pro (primary), Ableton, Cubase, Pro Tools (familiar)

Audacity, Audition, GarageBand

Final Cut (primary), Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Vegas Pro (familiar)

Nerd things

zsh, bash, git — not scary. Built Debian from source when I was 12 — warm memories.

Personal

I design to un-blur the world. From modular operating-system concepts to brand identities and resilient greenhouse villages, every project begins with the same quiet question: what invisible narrative is waiting to be crafted? A decade in product design has taught me that clarity, empathy, and restraint can turn even the most tangled challenges into elegant systems — ones that feel inevitable once you see them.

My process is equal parts plan and play. I sketch ideas like city blocks, test them like code, and refine them until they feel as natural as breathing. Minimalism, adaptive typography, and respectful accessibility are my native tools; silence, curiosity, and a stubborn faith in humanity are my accelerants. Whether I’m mapping a fintech flow or shaping a type token, I’m always asking how this decision will serve real persons — today and ten years from now.

If you sense a spark in these lines, let’s talk. I’m happiest when collaborating with people who believe big ideas deserve thoughtful implementation — and who see design not as decoration, but as a pact with the future.