Simon Mokrov

Simon Mokrov

Digital Designer in New York City, He/him

I'm a digital + graphic designer with a versatile approach, utilizing UX knowledge and visual communication expertise to bring a unique perspective to brand and product creation. Born in Ukraine, based in New York, operating all over the world

Experience:
● 2022–2024 Principal Product Designer in United24
● 2021–2023 Head of UI/UX in Fedoriv Agency
● 2019–2021 Self Employee/Contractor
● 2018–2019 Designer in Spiilka Design Buro
● 2017–2018 Design Lead in Hexagon agency

Recognition:
2x Reddot Design Award: Best of & Website Design, The Webby Awards, Awwwards: Site of the day, 2x Awwwards: Honorable Mention, CSS Design Award and more.

Follow socials:
LinkedIn, Facebook, Are.na, Behance

Get contact:
hellomokrov@gmail.com

Projects

2024

United24 is a centralized donation platform created to support the needs of Ukraine under President Zelensky's initiative. It has successfully raised over $660 million in the past 2+ years and continues to attract over 1 million monthly users. This project was significant milestone during my time at Fedoriv and even after that. I developed the design concept from scratch both logical and visual, managed design team and maintain development of internal CMS.

Together with:
Fedoriv agency, Ukrainian Ministry of Digitalisation and many others

2023
Fedoriv Internal

Fedoriv is a decentralized agency where I worked as one of the co-leaders of the product development department. In addition to client work, our task was to create a corporate website, a content editing system based on a visual editor for both the website itself and the case builder. We did everything from stakeholder interviews to launching and implementing a culture of working with the constructor

2023
Brave1

Brave1 is a cluster that supports the development of defense technologies in Ukraine. It was one of my agency projects where I had the opportunity to develop and implement the design concept for the website, as well as the visual part of the it. The website helps to collect and test ideas for new ways to protect people during the war in Ukraine.

Together with:
Fedoriv agency, Ukrainian Ministry of Digitalisation, wswg.xyz (creative code)

2022
Photon LMS

Photon is a Kickstarter startup that manufactures light module systems for product photography. I was invited to update the company's visual identity and implement it into a new website and mobile app that would allow full control over the light modules.

2021
Zibra AI

Zibra AI is a company that works on improving and optimizing 3D rendering for video games using AI. We retrained a pre-trained model, initially designed to recognize horses, to identify ZIBRA lettering. Using GAN network and more then 500 samples, we generated draft visuals for further refinement. Our goal was to create a dynamic visual identity that is used by the same tool that the client uses in working with their clients.

Reddot Winner 2021 (Best of the Best)

Together with:
Twid Studio, wswg.xyz

2021
Kooperativ

Kooperativ, a coworking and community hub in Kyiv invited me to create a visual design for their website with a critical approach to the aesthetics of 2000s offices.

2020
Cyberunit

CyberUnit is a cybersecurity company. They offered me to develop a corporate website as part of their redesign intent. The project was built using the zero-code tool Readymag and achieved one of the best use cases in their gallery.

2020
Sairus

Sairus is a small craft website, app, and software development company that invited me to create a visual concept for their brand and website, as well as the logic and design for a math calculator for their customers.

2019
Motivetica App

Motivetica is an application developed by designers and for designers. It offers an interaction with inspirational quotes from the most respected entrepreneurs and inventors in the field of design. I was tasked with improving the usability of the existing product and provide a monetization based on bundle system.

Featured on:
Wonderzine.me (UA);
Cases.media (UA);
Nachasi.com (UA);

Together with:
Spiilka Design Buro

2018
Better Me: Health & Fitness App

BetterMe is a family of fitness & health apps. It is in Top 5 the most downloaded application in this category. During this project I've interviewed hundreds of people from different countries to learn their pains and needs, to figure out how to turn a relevant UX-concept for all applications, taking care of its diverse multi-million audience.

Together with:
Spiilka Design Buro

Side Projects

2020

Pep Gaffe is a collective of enthusiasts who are bound to devote their lives to the grand idea of developing music community and aspire to create a platform for sterling interaction between artists and cultural operators.

2019

Created in 2016 as a print newspaper, VONO went online in 2018.

VONO began as a student art paper of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture [NAOMA] in Kyiv, Ukraine. VONO has existed at its own expense.

Education

2014 — 2018
Bachelor of Informational Technologies at State University of Telecommunications
Kyiv, Ukraine

Certifications

2014
IT Essentials from Cisco Networking Academy