About me
I take unfamiliar domains, learn them quickly, and turn them into interfaces people can move through.
Hi, I'm Diana, a product designer with five years of experience across research and interface work, building digital products in journalism, mental health, humanitarian coordination and civic tech.
My Skills
Team PlayerCollaborating on social-impact solutions at the Design Conference in Serbia (Ghost Project). 
Academically StrongGraduated with a Master's in Interaction Design, equipped with deep research and systems-thinking skills. - Graphic Design
- Animation
- Rapid AI MVP Generation
- Branding of visual identity
- Motion Design
- 3D Visualization
- Typography
- Design Sprints
- Design Systems
- Usability testing
- Wireframing
- UX Design
- Stakeholder workshops
- Leading Design Teams
- UI Design
- User Interviews
- Prototyping
Confident CommunicatorPitching my PTSD-support project to an audience, translating complex design into real-world impact. 
User-CenteredCo-designing and testing interactive prototypes with children at the Design for Children's Rights workshop. 
Creative ThinkerBrainstorming an AI-powered design concept with my team, bridging emerging tech and UX.
The work
Every project arrives as a subject I know nothing about, and that is the part I look forward to. I have designed for press freedom, biosphere reporting, EMDR trauma therapy, philanthropic grantmaking, banking and a car dashboard. Getting fluent fast is the skill I have practised most.
I start from research, and these days AI does a good part of the reading with me. Ideation follows, then testing, then wireframes, then testing again, then the UI, and then one more round of testing. Each round catches something the round before it missed. I present the work to stakeholders at every stage, and each decision has to hold up against the user need, the business goal and whatever the research already told us. In a workshop I am usually the one asking the question everyone else thinks is too basic.
My way of building changed in the last year. I moved from using AI tools to writing my own, and my work now runs on Claude agents and skills I wrote for problems in my own process. The Equality Fund portal came out of that shift: three pages in six design days, with every decision traceable to a source document.
Tools I use on daily basis
Figma
Claude
ChatGPT
Lovable
Blender
After Effects
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Unity
Miro
Notion
Jira
CanvaBefore product design I worked in animation and 3D, and the short films I made in Blender went to a few festivals. That background shows in how I think about pacing and motion on a screen. I read science fiction constantly, and I am happiest hiking somewhere green. I grew up in Ukraine and studied design in Kharkiv before the MA in Budapest.
Experience
Product Designer
Relief Applications
2024 - Current
Product & Brand Designer
OuiRace
2024 - Current
Interdepartmental Student Projects at MOME
MOME with Mercedes-Benz and K&H Bank
2023
UI/UX & Motion Designer
Freelance
2022 - 2024
2D & 3D Designer
Waverley Software, "iHoliday"
2020 - 2022
Certifications
I took these to learn how to scope a single agent's job and how to compose skills and subagents so a pipeline of them stays reliable. That knowledge is what the Equality Fund loop and JobEmber are built on.
Anthropic
Claude Code in Action
Where the document-driven loop behind the Equality Fund project came from.
Anthropic
Introduction to Subagents
Scoping one agent's job so a pipeline of them stays reliable.
Anthropic
Introduction to Agent Skills
How skills and subagents compose. Everything on my Side Projects page is built this way.
Anthropic
Introduction to Claude Cowork
Working through a problem in conversation before executing it.
Awards & Recognition
- 2024Mind Care, PTSD Companion was chosen for Best of MOME at the Liszt Institute in London.
- 2024Breath was shown at MOME KIKI, the year exhibition at MOME Budapest.
- 2024The Ghost Project took Breath to the Mixer Festival in Serbia.
- 2022My short animation Contemplation took an Honorable Mention at the Student World Impact Film Festival, out of more than 5,000 entries from 100 countries.
- 2022AniMart Festival took Contemplation into its official selection.
- 2022I finished my diploma with honours at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
- 2021The 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival selected Contemplation for the animation programme of its Tāctus edition.
- 2021My earlier short Scooter Life went into the official selection at the Assembly Line Sixties Festival.
- 2021The Pangram international student competition in font and calligraphy gave me a diploma for my 100 Years of KSADA font poster.
References
She comes up with really good personal branding designs in a world where every design starts to look the same. She also has a keen eye for UX journeys.
What sets Diana apart is the rare combination of rigorous UX thinking and exceptional visual craft. Any team looking for a designer who combines creative vision and professional reliability would be very fortunate to have Diana.
Diana is an exceptionally talented designer who consistently went above and beyond expectations. She brought not only strong expertise and creativity to every project, but also a real sense of ownership and care for the work.
You are always so well structured and quick with resolving any request! That's a real superpower. Thank you!
I am based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and I work remotely across Europe.