About me
I want to see what the work changes.
I’m Dmytro, a Staff Product Designer working on AI products and B2B SaaS. I’m drawn to complicated problems and the moment their parts start to make sense.
That curiosity gets me started. The part I want to stay for comes after the first version: people using it, the rough edges we discover, and the decisions we revisit together.
My path
I chose to stay close to the work.
My background is in physics and front-end engineering. Writing code at IBM gave me a practical way to understand how software behaves. I still use it. A working interface lets me examine an idea, notice awkward details and try a change while the design is still open.
Leading the UX team at SoftServe gave me a different responsibility. As the team grew from 7 to 26 people, I hired, mentored and created a competence framework. Expectations had to be clear. Shared standards helped us discuss the work and gave people room to develop their own judgment.
I valued that work, and I missed designing. Returning to hands-on work at Upwork was a conscious choice. I brought the lessons from leading with me: making decisions understandable, giving useful feedback and helping others take responsibility for the work.
The domains kept changing: enterprise hiring at Upwork, fleet operations at Volvo, machine learning at Neptune. Each meant learning from people who knew their field far better than I did. I enjoy that part. Understanding their work gives me a reason to question the product’s structure and a way to judge whether a design is useful.
Working together
I start by understanding what matters to people.
One-to-one conversations give people room to explain their concerns before we try to agree as a group. I want to understand those concerns. A shared direction becomes easier to find when we know why different people are asking for different things.
With product partners, I want to define the problem together and agree on a useful outcome. Engineers join the conversation early. Rough ideas help us discuss constraints before a mockup makes the solution look settled. Later, we walk through prototypes together and look for edge cases.
I’m comfortable defending a choice and changing my mind when there’s a better reason. Feedback belongs in the work. Research, data and experience help us make a considered decision with the information we have, then learn from putting it into use.
Working with AI
Delegating work makes me think harder about quality.
That experience shapes how I work with AI. I build and run agent workflows across product strategy, design, engineering and review. Each role needs useful context, a clear responsibility and criteria for accepting the result. Independent review is part of the process. I decide which choices need my approval.
The instruction I return to is “challenge my thinking.” I want weak assumptions questioned and alternatives explored. When an approach fails, I examine the instructions, context and checks, then change the process. I also turn design standards into reusable guidance and checks for AI-assisted interface development.
The wider question is usefulness. I want agent work to solve a real business problem and keep producing results people can rely on. That means deciding what a useful result looks like, checking it and understanding how someone will use it next. Design-system consistency is one part of that work.
Independent projects give me room to learn. Taking on implementation, content, release and iteration exposes decisions I might otherwise hand over. I bring that experience back into collaboration with a team.
Outside work
I’m a father of two. I enjoy making up games and small adventures with my children, experimenting in the kitchen, and reading about science and technology. Sport and an active lifestyle are part of how I look after my body and keep a clear mind.
That curiosity carries into my work: questioning assumptions, trying different approaches and learning by making.
Let’s get to know each other.
If you’re looking for a designer to take that kind of responsibility, I’d be glad to talk.
dmytro@svarytsevych.com