With 13 years of experience, I enable collaboration and turn complexity into clarity — creating design systems and products that get things done for users and drive business results.
2024
Revamped zone management and extended city settings to help city managers successfully set up and maintain 200+ additional markets after the merge with another company.
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2024
Following the operations process change, I simplified the app flow to help more quality repairs, better status and spare parts tracking, which leads to more available vehicles that generate more revenue. Users ranked the new flow 8.9/10.
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2021
Led the search and filtering initiative that helped clients find the exact document, person or deal in the sea of information.
View caseThis non-trivial search form design for the client that was selling used cars got me my first UX job.
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2023–present
Initiated and led Dashing, Dott’s design system, that simplified design, sped up development, and helped us build tools to scale from 120 to 300+ markets.
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2019—2021
Expanded the web component library, set up mobile components, added documentation—all to refresh the look and speed up the development of Teamleader Focus.
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Julia is an absolute pleasure to work with. Her pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to design, coupled with a fantastic capacity for the volume of work, meant the Dott team could make huge strides forward in developing the main projects. I highly recommend Julia, and would not hesitate to work again with her in the future.
I really appreciate Julia’s no bullshit, no drama way of working. It is really nice to know that I have a teammate who I can solve problems with, that really wants to just put out the best design work for the users. Her designs are making a meaningful impact on the user experience, and her work on the design system is having a huge impact on the UX team. Her commitment to continuous improvement, coupled with her refined communication skills, is really inspiring. I look forward to witnessing Julia’s continued growth and success.
Overall, I enjoy working with Julia, and I appreciate her dedication to ensuring design quality and consistency across our tools. Her passion for design (that goes beyond her role at Dott) and her ability to manage the design process have added a lot of value to the team.
Julia is a quick thinker and has a keen eye for detail when it comes to crafting a product experience that gets it right end-to-end. She is able to cover the ground from brief all the way up to getting her vision into production. A valuable team member to have!
I have worked with Julia multiple times (both as UX-designer) on the Research Performance tool SciVal. Besides the fact that she's a pleasant person to work with and that she’s a true all-round UX-designer (including testing), it’s worth highlighting her key role in the branding/visual design transformation of a complex product without it losing value or clarity. I think she’s also very skilled in turning complex data into interactive and effective visualisations (so not going for pure eye-candy, but still keeping the usefulness and key message that should come across in mind).
My love for the tech and design started when my mom signed a 9-year-old me up for the school computer club. I got hooked immediately and I decided to become a software developer. So I did – but that only lasted until I discovered UX. It just made so much sense that tech needs to be build for people, not against them!
That curiosity brought me to the Netherlands in 2012 to study UX — in Russia where I grew up there was no UX degrees at that time. Since then I’ve worked in big corps and scale ups, always looking for ways to make complex systems easier to work with.
My best work happens in collaboration with PMs and engineers. I like being part of the early, messy stages of defining a product just as much as taking care of the small details. Along the way I’ve mentored designers and built systems that help teams move faster without losing quality. I love design generally, and specifically typography — m-dashes, hanging puntuation and proper quotes have a special place in my heart.
Outside of design, I keep myself busy (sometimes too busy). I’ve traveled to 30+ countries, written my personal constitution, and I’m always learning new pole tricks or languages. I enjoy public speaking, love cats (especially mine), and can never say no to sushi.
I believe design is a powerful discipline that helps changing the world for the better.
At the moment I’m helping junior designers craft their portfolios and help them stand out. For more experienced professionals I offer help tackling current design challenges, stakeholder management, collaboration, UI and design systems, and just be there for you when you need someone to talk to.
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