Alex Sokolov

Product Designer

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My name is Alex, and I'm a Product Designer with over 9 years of experience specializing in mobile and web products. Originally from Ukraine, I've made Boston my home and workplace. Interestingly, I hold a master's degree in space information technology. My journey into the world of interface design began in 2015, transitioning from a background in photography.

My journey
Sieve Founder & Product Designer
2022 – Present
Rexalto Lead Product Designer
2022 – Present
Belkacar Lead Product Designer
2022
Yandex Senior Product Designer
2019 - 2022
EOS Data Analytics Product Designer
Lead Product Designer
2016 - 2018
Malachite Graphic & UI/UX designer
2015 - 2016

My primary aim is to assist businesses in achieving their goals, striking a balance between business objectives and aesthetic solutions that cater to the end-users' needs.

One of my standout attributes is my robust product vision coupled with a keen understanding of technical capabilities. This enables me to communicate efficiently with developers, fostering collaboration and the ideation of optimal solutions. I excel in decomposing tasks, ensuring timely product delivery to production alongside my product team.

While I thrive in team settings, I'm equally adept at spearheading extensive solo projects.

I even have experience launching my own startup, which you can read about here.

Outside of work, I'm passionate about active sports, enjoying the outdoors, and spending quality time with my family. I highly value sincerity, responsibility, and a good sense of humor in people.

What my colleagues say about me
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Minh-Duc Nguyen

Tech lead at Yandex

It was great working with Alex on Yandex Schoolbook, an online education system for children in primary and secondary schools in Russia. He always came up with fresh ideas that improve the UX of our customers. It was Alex who always focuses on details that help our students (7-10 years old) feel comfortable with the web interface and intuitively use it to get their homework done successfully. I really enjoyed every time Alex presented a new idea beautifully designed. He listened carefully to any feedback from the team and tried to make it even better.!

In general I would recommend Alex not only as a creative designer but also as a leader who can take responsibility and coordinate the project in difficult time to deliver it on time. Alex, may success and luck be with you!

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Evgeny Lurie

Ex. CPO at Yandex.Schoolbook

Alex is one of the brightest and smartest designers I’ve ever worked with. Strong spirit, deep diving into client’s “stories”, smart product decisions, high quality communication with dev team. And of course C-level responsibility and engagement.

We were lucky to have him in our Yandex Schoolbook team!

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Alexander Fenin

Lead UX Researcher at Juro

Alex is certainly one of the best designers I had an opportunity to work with. He's really thorough when it comes to designing user experience: he spends hours studying all the customers data he can access, he does countless iterations and always discusses them with the team, gathering rounds of feedback and acting accordingly. He has a strong opinion that is always based on strong evidence. He has an answer for every 'what if' during the design review because he had tried it all earlier and is now able to explain why he did or didn't go this way.

All in all, customers matter most for Alex and he does an exceptional work to bring them the best he has.