Nick Illarionov
Work Experience
2024 — 2026
Senior Product Designer at Tonstakers
Remote
Conducted a UX/UI audit of the product, identified key issues in the core staking experience, and prioritized improvements.
Redesigned the main user flows.
Built and rolled out a design system and a unified UI kit to improve consistency and speed up delivery with engineering.
Ran and validated hypotheses using analytics (funnels, drop-off, errors), A/B or before/after comparisons, and user research/surveys.
Refreshed the visual style and product messaging to make the interface lighter, more modern, and easier to understand.
2020 — 2024
Senior Product Designer at Tonstakers
California, US
Lead the design efforts for one of Ankr's paramount products, ANKR Staking. Developed prototypes and discussed viable design solutions with both technical team and product manager, with subsequent detailing and creation of an attractive and responsive design;
Worked on various projects connected with Staking, RPC, Defi, NFT, Trading inside both ANKR’s ecosystem and ANKR’s partners, which also included a project in a partnership with Binance (Helio), as well as Bitcoin staking project Lombard;
Collaborated with other designers and participated in development of the design-system which united ANKR’s products.
2016 — 2020
Design Lead at ADBRO
Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia
Created websites and worked on brand design for the company engaged in promotion of digital advertising on South-East Asian market;
Designed new types of advertising formats for their further usage in media outlets;
Educated a design-team, which was supposed to make advertising materials.
2015 — 2016
Product designer at RAMBLER
Moscow, Russia
Worked on design of search engine of one of the largest media portals in Russia. The job involved plenty of interesting tasks, such as designing widgets and studying usability;
Was involved in other internal projects of the company, such as image search, websites rating and analysis system.
2012 — 2015
Web designer in various design studios
Moscow, Russia
Worked as a web designer in various design studios