Uladzimir Kavalenka
Senior Product Designer (UX/UI) - Financial Platforms & Fintech
- 2017 Internal banking procurement portal BelWeb Bank, IBA Group
- 2018 B2B logistics optimisation, Germany Hapag-Lloyd, IBA Group
- 2020 Government document platform, Switzerland Mühlemann & Popp Online Media
- 2021 Home-management platform, London Livlet, Andersen
- 2022 Seven regulated health products NozomiHealth, design lead
- 2023 Own product and independent work Quify, a habit-quitting app
- 2024 Internal Market Risk Platform Tier-1 international bank
- 2025 Internal Sales & Coverage Platform Tier-1 international bank
- Senior product designer, in digital product design since 2017, specialising in complex, data-dense interfaces for finance.
- Since May 2024, the UX designer on two internal platforms at a Tier-1 international bank, engaged through Luxoft: an internal Market Risk Platform and an internal Sales & Coverage Platform, used daily by risk analysts, business analysts, sales and coverage teams and administrators.
- Works in enterprise data UX: dense analytical tables, complex filter and state models, information architecture for large module sets, accessible status colour, and design systems that reconcile several foundations at once.
- Degree in economic analytics.
- Runs an AI-assisted design workflow to put testable prototypes in front of users faster.
Polish residence card issued 2025, valid 10 years - no sponsorship required to work in Poland.
Design across two mature internal banking platforms used by risk analysts, business analysts, sales and coverage teams and administrators. Brief on both: evolutionary modernisation that improves usability without breaking established expert workflows, delivered as design-system work rather than one-off screens.
- A mature risk platform in daily production use by expert teams. Modernisation that had to improve the work without disturbing habits built over years.
- Navigation and information architecture for a large analytical product: making a wide set of views findable, so attention goes to the data and not to locating the screen.
- Dense table and filtering workflows: keeping expert reading speed while shortening the path from a broad dataset to the specific question someone actually has.
- Reusable working state: letting people keep, reopen and hand over a set-up they have arrived at, instead of assembling it again each time.
- Status colour on dense, dark screens, including an accessible mode and contrast measured against WCAG. In this domain colour carries meaning, not decoration.
- Delivered inside the platform's established design system and documented for engineering handover.
- A broad internal platform in markets technology, built out while the product family around it was still moving.
- Information architecture for a large module set: grouping and navigation that let people hold the product in their head.
- Reporting and configuration surfaces: bringing set-up and result close enough together that a change and its effect are read in one place.
- Recurring delivery: making the life of a repeating report legible, including what to do when one stops working.
- Dashboards reading the same data as the reports behind them, so the daily question is what changed rather than what to open.
- A bespoke component library on Material Design 3, aligned with the neighbouring products in the family, handed over to engineering.
Client identity, system names and screens are covered by NDA. Anonymised case studies available on request.
Design lead on seven regulated consumer health products across mobile and web, in cross-functional teams of 6-11, for clients in Stockholm, Zurich and Chicago. Several shipped to the App Store. Success criteria here were engagement and brand recognition, measured by usability testing before and after each redesign - a different metric set from enterprise finance, and worth naming as such.
- Community care platform for coordinating help for elderly relatives - the people doing the caring are family, not clinicians, and the flows had to survive that. Released and live in the App Store.
- Rebuilt navigation and onboarding from usability testing: after redesign 81% of users had no navigation problems.
- Brand-colour recall landed at 63% - the weakest in the portfolio, and traceable to partner-mandated extra colours that diluted the identity. Named here because the constraint, not the method, produced the number.
- Sports nutrition and wellbeing tracking; the largest engagement in the portfolio at 11 people, rebuilt from an existing web MVP into native iOS and Android rather than wrapped.
- After redesign: 93% brand-colour recall, 73% of users with no navigation problems.
- Children’s sleep tracking across web and mobile, released on the App Store.
- The strongest test numbers of the portfolio: 92% of users had no navigation problems and 95% recalled the brand colours.
- Allbry - mental-health telemedicine for young people. Navigation problems fell 42 percentage points and task failure 32 points after redesign.
- ProgressMe - health tracking for people with eating disorders. Navigation problems fell 54 points, task failure 65 points, brand recognition rose 47 points.
- These two are the only products in the portfolio with genuine before/after deltas measured on the same test set, which is why the deltas are quoted rather than the absolutes.
- Breathing and calm app built on parasympathetic technique: 90% of users had no navigation problems after redesign.
- Brand-colour recall stopped at 72% - a cast of characters in different colours makes a single brand colour harder to name, a cost the gamification was worth anyway.
- Built the design systems and component libraries that held consistency across parallel teams working on different products at once.
- Same method every time: read the existing analytics and user pains, build a custom test to locate the flow breaks, redesign UX and UI against the grid, three-colour and three-click rules, rebuild onboarding, test the prototype and iterate on what came back.
- Analytics-led rebuild of the landing page and onboarding for a home-management web platform: 4x on-page retention, 2x click-through into the application, 35% more completed onboardings.
- Built a design system on the existing brand - roughly 30% faster layout production - and restructured core flows, cutting time to key user goals threefold to an average of 6 seconds and 5 clicks.
- EDI communication service: designed the UX architecture of a new module inside an established design system for a government-document submission platform, working from two years of analytics and heatmaps alongside existing user feedback.
- Prototyped and tested with target users, iterated on the findings and delivered UI frames within the existing system; 10 people in the responsible sector, 40+ across the programme.
- BelWeb Bank internal procurement portal: interface design for budget-controlled purchasing workflows from department request through to contract - first internal banking tooling and regulated approval chains.
- Hapag-Lloyd internal B2B shipping module: UX for an optimisation tool combining ships, ports, weather, fuel costs and cargo data; part of a 50+ person programme.
Quify, own product, iOS and Android, live on the App Store. Designed under the working name Purly and shipped as Quify. Research, UX, UI, prototyping and design system: a 25+ screen onboarding system, an adaptive habit tracker, an AI feed and chat, and a reward ladder bounded at two years. Prototype testing: 91% brand recognition, 79% of users with no navigation problems, 85% completed all tasks.
Own design studio, 2020-2021: outsourcing work alongside two in-house startups, EasyWallet (a crypto wallet simplifying transfer flows for non-technical users) and Travy. Both taken to prototype and user testing; neither reached release.
Market risk (VaR and stress-test reporting, day-over-day attribution), sales coverage and client onboarding workflows, internal enterprise banking platforms, fintech web and mobile, regulated healthtech.
High-density tables on AG Grid, pivot and tabular models, drill-through, column and filter management, multi-select states, reusable presets and preference persistence, progress states for expensive data operations, dashboards and widgets.
Information architecture for large module sets, complex filter and state models, inherited versus local state, reversible state and history, breadcrumbs, wizard and stepper flows.
Material Design/M3, AG Grid and bespoke enterprise component libraries; Figma components, variants, variables and modes; design tokens and theming including dark and elevated surfaces; WCAG-aware status colour; documentation and handover to React and Storybook.
Stakeholder and expert interviews, synthesis of user feedback and product analytics, usability testing (Maze), competitor benchmarking, prototype-based validation with real users.
Figma Make, Figma Weave, Figma AI agents, Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, OpenAI Codex, ChatGPT, Midjourney - used for rapid prototype generation ahead of user feedback rounds, research synthesis, visual exploration and design-to-code handover.
HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript basics, React component model, Storybook, coded component libraries, design tokens, Webflow, GSAP.
Agile and Scrum, Jira, Confluence, distributed cross-functional teams, NDA and restricted-data environments.
Financial and market analysis foundation behind the current specialisation in risk and trading interfaces.
UX/UI design course instructor, BelHard, 2020. Front-end development courses, 2017.
English: B2, professional working proficiency; all client and project work conducted in English. Russian: native. Polish: A1.
Operating through a Polish sole proprietorship registered in 2023: available for remote B2B contracts across the EU and UK, with no umbrella company or employer of record required.