Vlada Kishikova

UX/UI Product Designer

Toronto, Ontario · vladakishikova@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/vlada-kishikova · vladakishikova.com

UX/UI Product Designer with 7+ years across healthcare, cloud technology, eCommerce and events. My branding and marketing background pays off twice: visual craft with five industry awards behind it, and design systems that hold up beyond the product screen – in campaigns, email and retail. I take products from idea to production: I designed and vibe-coded the portfolio site and the live product on it myself.

Skills

  • Product: UX/UI design, user flows, wireframing, interactive prototyping, journey mapping, usability review, UX research, accessibility
  • Systems: Design systems, design tokens, component libraries, iconography, illustration systems, brand guidelines
  • Communication: Landing pages, campaign assets, product communication, email and social media design, responsive web design
  • AI and code: Vibe coding, AI-assisted design workflows, Figma to production: interface, data, deploy
  • Tools: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects), Cinema 4D, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Jira, Confluence, Asana, Google Analytics

Experience

Senior Designer, RamSoftDecember 2024 – February 2026

Global healthcare software, radiology · Ontario, Canada

  • Designed interfaces, page structures and user flows for healthcare products and customer-facing web platforms, holding accessibility standards.
  • Turned a site of one-off pages into a design system within the existing CMS and templates, without rebuilding the site – one type scale, spacing grid, palette and icon set; new pages assemble from existing components.
  • Redesigned the blog – readers stay 51% longer than the site average (GA4, 70,000+ blog views).
  • Scaled the system to section landing pages: the AI landing reads 82% above the site average, the download center 63%, the partner catalogue six times (GA4).
  • Created social media templates – three months on LinkedIn: 104,745 impressions, up 23.5%.
  • Carried the brand across web, digital products and physical spaces, including conference booths.

Lead Designer, Azbuka VkusaApril 2022 – December 2024

eCommerce and retail

  • Led brand and experience design across eCommerce, retail, social, outdoor, email and in-store touchpoints; contributed to a 7% revenue increase.
  • Built and evolved the design system – guidelines, templates, asset libraries, reusable components; production time dropped 25%.
  • Mentored four designers: quality control, concept development, visual guidelines.

Lead Designer, TimepadApril 2021 – March 2022

Event and ticketing platform, B2B and B2C

  • Led the end-to-end rebrand: public website, product interface and marketing channels under one design system.
  • Created layouts, user flows and wireframes for event organizers and attendees.
  • Developed the visual language: page templates, typography system, illustration style and 3D direction.

Senior Designer, Cloud.ruNovember 2019 – April 2021

IaaS, PaaS and ML platform

  • Designed an internal B2B cloud platform for non-technical users: UI concepts, user flows, responsive web.
  • Conducted user and competitive research to inform platform design decisions.
  • Developed the corporate identity, illustration and graphics; built visual guidelines for consistent use across teams.
  • Streamlined briefs for external contractors – 30% more projects finished without overloading the team.

Lead Designer, PicheskyFebruary 2014 – November 2019

Digital agency

  • Developed visual systems and campaign concepts for Google, Nestlé, Unilever and BMW.
  • Delivered design for global clients across FMCG, automotive and tech on agency deadlines.

Education

  • Moscow State University of Printing Art – Bachelor’s degree, graphic design2008 – 2014

Courses

  • Vibe Coding Master, Wannabe – product spec, UI kit to production, auth, databases, APIs, AI features, deploy2026
  • SUPERPOWERED UX/UI, Wannabe – JTBD, CJM, service blueprints, wireframes, UI kits, handoff2026
  • Graphic Designer, Wannabe2021
  • Web Design, Moscow Digital Academy2017

Awards

  • Silver Mercury – Gold, Best of Branding; Bronze, Best Marketing Campaign (Art Director)2024
  • The World’s Best In-House Teams – Bronze (Art Director)2023
  • Red Apple – Shortlist, Label and Packaging (Creator, Designer)2023
  • Young Glory – Shortlist (Creator, Designer)2021
  • AD Stars – Crystal (Creator, Designer, Illustrator)2019