Senior product designer with 15+ years of experience designing B2B SaaS, fintech, and analytics products. Passionate about transforming complex domain expertise into clean, accessible, high-converting user experiences. Since 2024, running SiteWave Studio, an independent design practice, and expanding into cybersecurity UX: co-founded ArgusX, a threat intelligence platform, and contributed detection rules to Sublime Security's open-source ruleset. Proficient in Figma, Framer, and AI-enhanced workflows to improve design clarity, visual polish, and speed to prototype. Russian/English bilingual.
Most senior UX designers can ship beautiful interfaces. Designers who actually understand the domain they're designing for ship products that practitioners trust. I'm building deep cybersecurity expertise specifically to design security tools that don't fail users through hostile UX.
Senior UI/UX Designer
Aug 2022 – Jul 2024- Rebuilt core rental application experience for national housing platform managing $1.6B AUM, increasing application completion rates by ~30%
- Led end-to-end UX design across custom web and mobile applications, collaborating with product managers, developers, and C-suite stakeholders
- Conducted UX research, heuristic evaluations, and usability audits to identify user pain points and refine key workflows
- Created scalable design systems and crafted high-fidelity UI layouts, mockups, wireframes, and interactive prototypes in Figma
- Delivered responsive, accessible interfaces with consistent UX patterns across platforms
- Drove 25% improvement in project turnaround time by streamlining design operations and optimizing engineering handoffs
Lead UI/UX Designer
Apr 2019 – Jul 2022- Created scalable data dashboards and internal tools for media measurement clients making multi-million dollar advertising decisions
- Accelerated project delivery 30%+ by establishing reusable design framework adopted across full product team
- Led complex B2B analytics product design from discovery through developer handoff
- Synthesized user feedback into clean, insight-driven UI with improved data legibility and interaction clarity
Founder, Sr. UX/UI Designer
2023 – Present- Founded boutique design studio focused on UX/UI design for small businesses and nonprofits
- Created and scaled atomic design systems including color tokens, type libraries, and component variants
- Designed high-fidelity responsive mockups and Framer builds for 10+ client websites and apps
- Integrated AI workflows to support UX flows, generate web content, refine UI copy, and enhance prototyping speed
Sr. Product Designer & UX Consultant
Dec 2017 – May 2019- Built SaaS design system from the ground up for PII-compliant bartering app platform
- Facilitated stakeholder discovery sessions to prioritize MVP feature set and onboarding flows
ArgusX · Co-founder, Threat Intelligence Platform
yanaivanov.com/argusx.htmlCo-founded and designed a threat intelligence platform aggregating tens of thousands of classified threat items from 20+ sources, with AI classification, automated relationship-mapping, and a methodology built for predictive threat analysis.
Sublime Security · Open-Source Detection Rules
github.com/sublime-security/sublime-rulesAuthored MQL detection rules for Sublime Security's open-source repository — two rules merged into main, including a homoglyph confusable-character expansion, with a RoundPress/ZimReaper webmail XSS rule (HTML @import tag-splitting) under maintainer review.
Cybersecurity Research & Writing
yanaivanov.comPublished 24+ threat intelligence analyses spanning nation-state operations (Volt Typhoon, Lazarus npm supply chain), criminal infrastructure, and identity research, applying a UX perspective to current cyber threats.