Available for lead & senior roles

Lead Product
Designer.
Fintech
& Commerce.

Payments, merchant platforms, discovery across hundreds of German retailers — the screens people trust with their money. Unglamorous, high-stakes, and invisible when they work.

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Hand-written WebGL. No libraries. ⌘U

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Four cases, one pattern: complex flows made to hold up in production.

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How I build

My design-system docs double as AI context. A component spec carrying patterns and anti-patterns is what lets a generator emit a real Button instead of an invented div — the system is the prompt.

0frameworks
2dependencies — both for one globe
~175lines of WebGL in the header
⌘Uall of it readable in view-source

What I actually do

Product Discovery
01

Product Discovery

50+ user interviews, opportunity framing, hypothesis-to-metric mapping. I run discovery so the next sprint solves a real merchant problem, not a stakeholder preference.

Design Systems
02

Design Systems

Token-based systems with Token Studio and GitHub sync — the way enterprise design teams ship at speed. Built to scale across products, themes, and platforms while keeping design-to-development consistency above 95%.

Transactional UX
03

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
04

How I Build

AI is part of how I ship, not a slide in my deck. I write vibe-coded prototypes — and this site, shader included — in Claude Code, then read every line before it goes anywhere near production.

5+ Years in fintech and commerce
40K+ Merchants served monthly
4.92 VoC score, 12-month average

Bangkok, Thailand

Available worldwide UTC+7 · EU overlap
[ Experience ]

Senior Product Designer · Lead scope

Home Credit Bank KZ

Jul 2024 — Present

Founding Product Designer & Partner

Interior Trends

Apr 2023 — Present

Product Designer

UsabilityLab

Sep 2023 — Jun 2024

UX/UI Designer

Boroda Digital

Apr 2022 — May 2023
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Nikita Nabugornov
About

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, shipped product — and the people around it. Every decision sits next to a hypothesis, because that's the only thing that 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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Writing
5 May 2026

I Rebuilt My Portfolio with Claude Code

Framer traded for hand-written HTML, CSS and vanilla JS — including the shader in the header above. The build, not the claim.

8 Jun 2026

Generalist vs Specialist Is the Wrong Debate

It's not breadth versus depth. The real fork is IC depth versus a leadership track — and one comes with a ceiling stapled to the title.

2 Jun 2026

What They Actually Hire For

I read 21 Senior PD job descriptions for patterns, not requirements. Here's what hiring managers really screen for.

21 May 2026

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.

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