Ilya Garifulin

Ilya Garifulin began their career in 2012 as an Application Designer at Red Button. During their time there, they completed an internship as a designer of mobile applications for iOS and Android, studying the guides under Android and iOS and designing several mobile applications. In 2013, they moved to Abak Press as a UX Designer, where they created wireframes and prototypes, conducted A/B testing, and analyzed web service. From 2014 to 2017, they worked at ITM Holding as a Senior UI/UX Designer, where they were responsible for graphic design, designing interfaces, participating in the development of corporate identity and product design concept, creating wireframes and clickable prototypes, and collaborating with software developers. In 2017, they joined Conduent as a Senior Customer Service Advisor, and in 2018 they moved to GWC World as a Senior UX/UI Designer. In 2020, Ilya joined KORUS Consulting as a Lead Product Designer, and in 2021 they moved to Affise - performance marketing software as a Lead Product Designer. At Affise, Ilya managed the design team and the designer’s sprint backlog, handled customer interviewing and UX tests, mentored designers in product and marketing teams, created design systems, mockups, concepts, and prototypes. Ilya created design for the new Affise Reach product, which now has $150k ARR and got good reviews on the UX part, created 4 design systems for different Affise products, made the redesign of the platform that used thousands of users and got great reviews, improved UX for many features that got better statistics, and created UX for many new features.

Ilya Garifulin received a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Ural Federal University between 2008 and 2012. Ilya then went on to get a Master's degree in International Management from the same university between 2012 and 2014.