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Kyrylo Papusha
Senior UI/UX Designer
Kyiv, Ukraine

Contact
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Summary
Senior UI/UX Designer with 7+ years of experience and 23+ shipped web and mobile products for clients in the EU, USA

and Australia, across FinTech, crypto, travel, healthcare and e-commerce. Specialized in complex user flows and token-
based component libraries, owning the design cycle from requirements to developer handoff, most often as the sole
designer. Largest project: sole designer of a crypto wallet with a built-in exchange, taken from MVP to public release over
two years and live today

Skills
UX & Product: User flows, Conditional multi-step flows, Requirements analysis, Competitor analysis, Audience analysis,
Wireframing, Prototyping, Information architecture, Design QA
UI & Design Systems: Design systems, Component libraries (atomic design), Variables & tokens, Light and dark themes,
High-fidelity UI, Responsive design, Visual hierarchy, Typography, Grids, Apple HIG, Material Design, Developer handoff
Collaboration: Cross-functional collaboration (PM, BA, QA, developers), Agile / Scrum, Knowledge sharing
Tools: Figma (Variables, Auto Layout, Components, Prototyping), FigJam, Framer, Figma Sites, Photoshop, Illustrator, Jira,
Miro, Notion
AI tools: Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT

Professional Experience
Tallium Inc. - Senior UI/UX Designer (joined as Middle)
IT outsourcing company / Kyiv, Ukraine / Hybrid / Jul 2020 – Sep 2026 (6 years 2 months)
Product design & delivery

S i ed
h pp 17+ web and mobile roducts for clients in the EU, USA and Australia, including i S and Android apps, SaaS
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platforms, dashboards, CRM and enterprise systems; sole designer on most of them, owning each from requirements to
developer handoff
S ole designer o a cry to allet it a built in e c ange or years: took it from MVP to public release with 100
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screens and states across registration, KYC, trading and cards in 3 languages; the product is live today
Designe d com le conditional lo s: benchmarked established exchanges and proposed a gradual feature-access
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model that the client approved in place of an all-or-nothing security gate; for an Australian print-ordering platform, built a
flow where each choice reshapes the next step, and the client returned for a second release
L ead designer of a cruise booking platform for 1+ year (web and responsive) in a two-designer team: defined user
paths, edge cases and system feedback for booking cabins and shore activities
Ini tiated usability tests o a rototy e it real users on a beauty-retail product, documented where users succeeded
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and struggled, and handed the findings to the product's design team

Design systems

B u ilt every product on token-based component libraries (atomic design: atoms, molecules, organisms), the design
team's standard; the largest, 35–50 components with light and dark modes via Figma variables, is still extended by the
designer who took over the product

Created the company's internal design standards: built the shared component library, wrote most of the design
guidelines and co-created the brand book, adopted by the entire 4-designer team and used in developing

Tallium's websites
Used Claude to speed up requirements analysis and to automate the export of component libraries into Figma

through a plugin
Team & process
Shared expertise within the 4-designer team: at the team lead's request, walked newly hired designers through live
projects, the design process and the team's way of working, and contributed to internal workshops on component-based
design
Worked in 1–2-week sprints with PMs, developers, QA and BAs; presented design progress to clients in weekly calls
(2026) and reviewed live builds against the design on several projects
Designed for the company itself: new pages of the corporate website, an email newsletter template still in use, and a
merch collection with an internal ordering site on Figma Sites, live today
Also designed: a smart-home iOS app, a tablet app for ambulance crews to record patient examinations, a voice-talent
marketplace and a family planning mobile app
Industries: FinTech, Crypto, Travel, Healthcare, E-commerce, Marketplace, Productivity, IoT
Project types: Mobile apps (iOS, Android), SaaS, CRM, Marketplace, Dashboards, Enterprise, Corporate websites

Dinamicka Development - Junior UI/UX Designer
IT outsourcing company / Kyiv, Ukraine / Office / Jul. 2018 - Nov. 2019 (1 year 5 months)
T ook 6+ client projects from brief to launch as one of two designers in the company: corporate websites, CRM systems,
admin dashboards and booking platforms
Designed the company's largest pro ject, a car-rental booking platform for the Swiss market
Prepared Behance case studies of the company's projects to promote its work to new clients
Industries: E-commerce, Travel, Healthcare

Education
Kharkiv Institute of Trade and Economics (HTEI KNTEU)
Specialist Degree, Accounting / Kharkiv, Ukraine / 2014–2016
Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade (DonNUET)
Bachelor's Degree, Accounting / Donetsk, Ukraine / 2013–2014
Shakhtarsk Technical School
Junior Specialist Degree, Accounting / Shakhtarsk, Ukraine / 2010–2013

Courses & Training
English B1&B2
Green Forest/ Kyiv, Ukraine / Sep. 2024 - Jan. 2025
Motion Design
K.A.M.A./ Kyiv, Ukraine / Nov 2021 – Jan 2022
UI/UX Design
Projector/ Kyiv, Ukraine / Jan 2018 – Apr 2018

Languages
Ukrainian - Native
English - Intermediate (B1)