Vadym Drut

Vadym Drut

Digital Product Designer in Europe

About

With 6 years of experience, I work across multiple disciplines from product design and visual design of various tech industries.

This experience allowed me to find a balance between visual design and crafting product experiences by applying the design thinking methodology throughout the journey, where the end solution is aligned with user needs, uncovered desires, and expectations.

Currently, I am living in Vilnius, Lithuania.

I work with teams all around the world and looking for a full-time position as a product designer where I will able to solve complex and challenging problems.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Senior Product Designer at allinbits.com
Remote

All in Bits, Inc. is the parent company behind Cosmos, a decentralised blockchain ecosystem, and is known for developing Tendermint and other blockchain tools. As the sole designer on the development team, I lead the end-to-end design of Gno Studio products, including the IDE and Connect platforms.

  • Designed user interfaces and created design assets for Gno Studio and Gno Playground, ensuring a cohesive and user-centric experience while maintaining brand identity

  • Facilitated workshops, brainstorming sessions, and pair sessions with frontend developers to streamline handoffs, align on design specifications, and refine implementation

  • Conducted competitive research to identify industry trends and benchmark features, contributing to informed feature prioritisation in collaboration with the VP of Product and Product Manager

  • Focused on user experience design, conducting usability testing and iterating on designs based on user feedback to ensure seamless and intuitive workflows

2023 — 2024
Remote
  • As a founding designer I led the product experience and visual direction from the ground up. Ensuring a consistent, high-impact design that aligned with both user needs and business objectives.

  • Worked closely with the founder in live whiteboard sessions, brainstorming and refining concepts to ensure strategic clarity.

  • Designed and delivered low- and high-fidelity prototypes, enabling rapid user testing to validate user flows and improve usability

  • Designed features end-to-end, transforming initial notes into fully realised prototypes. Collaborated closely with the founder and developer in whiteboard sessions to design and test concepts with users, refining designs for investor presentations to highlight the product’s potential.

  • Enabled the founder to secure government funding, advancing the project.

2022 — 2023
Remote
  • Directed product and design strategy, shaping the overall vision and ensuring alignment across the entire product.

  • Designed and implemented a scalable design system, evolving from RadixUI to support consistent and cohesive designs that uses across 2 products.

  • Redesigned the dashboard interface, significantly improving usability and creating a more engaging user experience.

  • Led the design and development of a new feature, completing user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals for a successful launch.

  • Collaborated with product managers, engineers, and design engineers to establish streamlined processes, enabling faster and higher-quality feature delivery.

2021 — 2022
Remote
  • Led the visual direction of Emeris in collaboration with the brand designer, introduced and maintained brand identity within the product, ensuring a cohesive and consistent visual experience that accurately represented the product’s identity.

  • Collaborated cross-functionally with developers, product managers, and leadership to define feature priorities, assess scope, and streamline design-to-development processes, maintaining product alignment with strategic goals.

  • Engaged in brainstorming, design critique, and whiteboard sessions with the design team and developers.

  • Delivered low and high-fidelity designs, mockups, and prototypes, designing solutions for complex blockchain functionalities and supporting seamless user experiences.

  • Successfully launched two features in close collaboration with the product manager and developers, regularly updating the head of design.

  • Participated in the creation of a flexible and unified design system, adopted across four products to drive consistency and improve design efficiency within the organisation.

  • Supported the beta launch, refining UX and visual identity to attract and engage 27,000+ community members during the early release.

2020 — 2021
Remote
  • Collaborated with the Heartbeat Agency Studio to revamp Bibliu.com’s UI and visual identity, delivering a contemporary and user-friendly interface that aligned with the brand’s goals.

  • Transitioned to a product designer role, collaborating with the product manager to enhance UX leveraging insights from Maze user testing to inform feature design and optimise user flows based on real user metrics.

  • Designed high-fidelity prototypes for user testing, iterating on designs to ensure optimal user experience and functionality, based on user’s feedback and analytics.

  • Designed a scalable, cross-platform design system, establishing reusable components that supported cohesive UI across multiple platforms.

  • Updated BibliU’s product design, attracting renewed interest from students and professors and driving retention growth from 100k to 350k monthly active users, supporting a successful $10M Series A funding round.

2019 — 2021
Odessa, Ukraine
  • Collaborated with early-stage startups and 0→1 products, helping validate concepts, iterate designs, prototype solutions, and uncover ideas that supported funding efforts.

  • Worked closely with founders, CEOs, developers, and other stakeholders, facilitating transparent communication and ensuring design solutions met both user needs and business goals.

  • Crafted cohesive visual identities in a close collaboration with brand designer for startups and enterprise companies, designing brand assets that elevated client recognition and strengthened brand presence.

  • Created and delivered design systems, ensuring consistency and usability across design assets for early-stage products.

  • Provided mentorship and guidance to junior designers, fostering skill development in UX/UI design.

  • Designed websites and landing pages in collaboration with the brand designer, translating visual identities into engaging, user-friendly web experiences that aligned with brand guidelines.

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