NIKOLAY
KUCHKAROV
Product designer @ Avito.ru
I'm a Russian based User Experience Designer currantly living in Moscow. I have a deep expertise working on an established project with millions users base. More than 9 years of experience. I had the pleasure of working with biggest companies in Russia, such as Mail.ru Group and Avito.

Work experience

APRIL 2017 — PRESENT
Lead Product Designer
Avito.ru
Lead product designer in Android division. In addition to the basic work on the product, I control the visual and stylistic integrity of the entire product. Define design guidelines and set communication between team members. I develop and maintain our own (Avito Design platform) design system built on a component approach. I'm engaged in the integration and cross-platform synchronization of the Design platform.
UX/UI
DESIGN LEAD
DESIGN ADVOCATE
WIREFRAMING
PROTOTYPING
VISUAL DESIGN
MOTION DESIGN
DESIGN INTEGRATOR
MOBILE
APRIL 2016 — APRIL 2017
Product Designer
Avito.ru
Work on Avito for Android platform. Responsible for creating all necessary wireframes, visual prototypes, and final design specifications for the app. Develop design guidelines in collaboration with other team members.
UX/UI
DESIGN ADVOCATE
WIREFRAMING
PROTOTYPING
VISUAL DESIGN
MOTION DESIGN
MOBILE
MAY 2015
Lead UX & UI Designer
Mail.ru group
Worked with mobile platforms. Design, prototyping and interface design. Integrator and developer of the platform deisgn guidelines. One of the key achievements was Editors Choice award, TopDeveloper and multiple featuring on Google Play.
UX/UI
DESIGN LEAD
PROTOTYPING
WIREFRAMING
VISUAL DESIGN
MOBILE
FABRUARY 2013
UX & UI Designer
Mail.ru group
Mainly I worked on ICQ messenger for Android platform. Also developed design for Windows Phone, Windows 8 and web. I worked on the Agent, MyChat and other internal products. Responsible for UI and UX.
UX/UI
GRAPHIC DESIGN
PROTOTYPING
MOBILE
DESKTOP
WEB
ILLUSTRATIONS
MAY 2012
Interaction Designer / Visual Designer
Proektmarketing +1
My tasks were very different. This could be a web design and interfaces, as well as video and interactive design. Most Agency clients were very large companies or government departments. Thus, the level of responsibility was very high. I am proud of each project in which i have been involved. One of the recent project was interactive presentation for the Russian Association of Innovative Regions in the framework of the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, at which the leaders of the country (including the president) and the governor were able to try our product.
UX/UI
INTERACTIVE DESIGN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MOTION DESIGN
PROTOTYPING
DESKTOP
WEB
ILLUSTRATIONS
SEPTEMBER 2011 — FEBRUARY 2013
Technical Designer
Toasterec (IDM Agency)
Main scope of the work has been associated with a web interfaces. My job consisted of various kinds of visual graphics: icons, glyphs, visualization, creation of various prototypes, development of presentation materials, design Flash-presentation and application. I was engaged in the design and development for mobile platforms (web and native mobile applications). Most of the projects have been developed for large companies (medium and large businesses, real estate developers)
INTERFACES
WEB
GRAPHIC DESIGN
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTERACTIVE DESIGN
MOBILE
MAY 2011
Web-Designer
F21 (Omega design)
I did a full graphical support for web projects of our clients. Also did illustrations and other graphics for screens and printings. Developed corporate identity and presentation materials. I received an interesting experience, since each project was totally different from the previous one, the rapid pace of work endlessly forced me to optimize my work processes.
WEB
GRAPHIC DESIGN
PRINT DESIGN
IDENTITY
ILLUSTRATIONS
SEPTEMBER 2010 — NOVEMBER 2010
Designer
Aptech World Wide
Design different promotional and advertising materials. I specialized in printing design, outdoor advertising, and graphic design.
PRINT DESIGN
IDENTITY
ADVERTISING
GRAPHIC DESIGN
PHOTO RETOUCH
SEPTEMBER 2007 — PRESENT
Designer
Freelance and personal projects
Mostly I do User Interfaces & User Experiense design. Sometimes working on icons and illustrations. Long time ago did outdoor and online advertising graphic and corporate identity.
UX/UI
VISUAL DESIGN
ILLUSTRATIONS
MOTION DESIGN
WEB
DESKTOP
MOBILE

Education

2014
British Higher School of Art and Design
UX&UI Intensive, Product designer
2011
Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov
Specialist degree at Advertisment
2011
Aptech World Wide
Designer, International university courses

Publications

11 OCTOBER 2016
Medium.com (Russian language)
[edit]Article about free set of icons related to movies and television, designed by me and released for Smashing Magazine and the design community.
20 NOVEMBER 2015
Habrahabr.ru (Russian laguage)
[edit]Article about free set of icons related to movies and television, designed by me and released for Smashing Magazine and the design community.
26 OCTOBER 2013 — 11 JANUARY 2014
Designtowindowsphone.com
Series of articles related to design for windows phone platform.
9 OCTOBER 2012
Smashingmagazine.com
Article about free set of icons related to movies and television, designed by me and released for Smashing Magazine and the design community.