Lead Product
Designer. Fintech & Commerce.
Payments, merchant platforms, discovery across hundreds of German retailers. I design the screens people trust with their money — and I start by asking why a café owner still logs every QR payment by hand.
Selected Work ↓
HCB Business — Merchant Cabinet
Made any-bank payments work with one QR — at country scale.
Interior Trends — AI Discovery
Named routes into the catalogue, and a product page that says why a thing fits.
Davr Bank — Neo-banking
Reworked the neo-banking flows users were dropping off in.
B-Business — SME Banking
Took an SME banking flow from unusable to SUS 78.
Four cases, one pattern: complex flows made to hold up in production.
Let's talk about yours ↗
Bangkok, Thailand
What I do
Product Discovery
50+ user interviews, opportunity framing, hypothesis-to-metric mapping. I run discovery so the next sprint starts from a problem merchants described in those interviews.
Design Systems
Token-based systems with Token Studio and GitHub sync. Built to scale across products, themes, and platforms — with 92–96% of production colours on tokens in the flagship banking product.
Transactional UX
Payment flows, onboarding, and merchant tooling designed for conversion. KYB, KYC, settlement, dispute resolution, payouts — every micro-interaction earns its place in a regulated context where one wrong tap costs a transaction.
How I Build
I build prototypes in code with AI. Design-system rules keep the output consistent; I review the result before it reaches production.
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What they say
“I had the opportunity to work with Nikita on one of the most challenging projects of my career and Nikita was the person who did not let me down. [...] He always met his deadlines, never gave up on challenging tasks and proved himself as a person you can rely on.”
“Working with Nikita on a redesign of a mobile banking application was both rewarding and insightful. [...] He is attentive to feedback, eager to learn from his mistakes, and demonstrates a strong grasp of the team's objectives.”
“I was particularly impressed by Nikita's ability to adapt to the complex requirements of the project. In a fast-paced project environment with constantly changing requirements, he demonstrated an outstanding ability to analyze and deliver quality design solutions.”
“During our collaboration on the HomeTrends Project, I had the opportunity to witness his creativity, analytical thinking, and ability to quickly grasp new concepts. Nikita's designs are not only visually stunning, but also thoughtfully crafted [...]”
Lead Product Designer based in Bangkok
I design fintech and commerce products — payments, merchant platforms, AI-driven discovery. Kazakhstan's first interbank Unified QR system, and a 0→1 discovery product for the German market, now live.
My card says Senior; my scope is Lead. Research, framing, systems, the shipped product, and the people around it. Every decision sits next to a hypothesis, because a hypothesis is what survives a room full of risk, legal, and engineering.
Open to Lead, Staff-track, and Senior IC roles. Global remote from Bangkok, EU morning overlap daily, no relocation.
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Design decisions, carried into working prototypes.
My design-system docs double as AI context. Patterns and anti-patterns keep generated components consistent with the design. I review the result before it reaches production.
Read how I built this siteI Rebuilt My Portfolio with Claude Code
The story behind the original rebuild: moving from Framer to HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript.
Generalist vs Specialist Is the Wrong Debate
The fork that matters is IC depth versus a leadership track. One of them has a ceiling stapled to the title.
What They Actually Hire For
I read 21 Senior PD job descriptions and counted what repeats. The requirements list is not the same thing as the screening criteria.
Merchants Trust Their Workaround, Not Your Flow
A café owner logged every QR transaction by hand next to a working confirmation screen. That's not a UX failure — it's a trust failure.
Lead and senior roles in fintech, commerce and AI — or a project that needs someone who has shipped this before. I reply within 48 hours.
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