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From research to a working front end.
I'm Ihor Popov, a product designer. For ten years I've designed the working side of software, and lately I prototype it in code too: I write the specification, direct AI coding agents, and review every pass until the prototype behaves like the product should.
- Now
- Product Designer at AltexSoft, since October 2021
- Designing since
- 2016
- Languages
- English, Ukrainian
How I work now
Design with AI in the loop.
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Specifications agents can build from
I write UX specifications precise enough for AI coding agents, then review every pass for hierarchy, states, interaction logic and copy until the build matches the intent.
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A system the agents cannot drift from
Tokens, a closed component vocabulary and generated documentation, with lint checks and guard hooks that keep hard-coded styles and off-system components out of the code.
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Prototypes people can use
Working prototypes in code, Figma Make or Figma Sites, deployed for review, so teams and clients react to real states and data instead of static screens.
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Designing AI products, not only with AI
An AI Copilot that drafts analysis scripts, explains each step and cites its sources; a guided path from uploading code to an MCP connection for AI assistants.
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Experience
AltexSoft
Product Designer, October 2021 to now
More than fifteen client, presale and internal projects in five years: fintech, legal tech, retail and e-commerce, travel and hospitality, and AI products, from proof of concept and MVP to redesigns of mature platforms and long-term support.
2026
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Malkai reservation workspace
Design Engineer on the elaboration of a mid-office platform for a luxury hospitality group in Oman. I prototyped the reservation workspace in code, built its token-based design system, and directed AI coding agents to turn the specification into a working front-end proof of concept.
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In-house product
Interlace, an AI developer platform
AltexSoft's own AI developer platform. I audited its admin application, 29 scored findings in five areas, and redesigned the path from uploading code to a working IDE connection over MCP.
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AI Copilot for a data-analytics application
An AI Copilot for a desktop data-analytics application, designed by me: an assistant panel that drafts analysis scripts from a conversation, explains each step, and cites its sources. Earlier on the same product, in 2022, I mentored a junior designer through feature work.
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Prepaid travel certificates for a members-only travel club
Product Designer on a shipped prepaid-certificate program for a members-only travel club: the back office that defines and controls certificates, prototyped in Figma Make, and the member's path from landing page to checkout, wallet and booking.
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Presale prototypes
Presale prototypes in Figma Make and Figma Sites that let prospective clients try their product before the project starts: a leisure-travel platform and a camping app.
2023 to 2025
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Retail platform and marketplaces for pawn and specialty retail
My longest engagement: two and a half years on a platform for pawn and specialty retail. I designed new point-of-sale modules from proof of concept to release, redesigned its two marketplaces for desktop and mobile, and restructured the design system so it could be implemented automatically.
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Real-time transcription for legal proceedings
Real-time transcription of legal proceedings, built on speech recognition. I led design from the proof of concept to an MVP for its two roles, the court reporter who runs the live transcript and the attorney who follows it.
2021 to 2022
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Investment planning for financial advisors
Investment planning for financial advisors, over almost two years. I audited the platform, rebuilt its information architecture, designed the admin, support and advisor areas, and created its design system.
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Internet filtering for web, mobile and desktop
An internet-filtering platform for web, mobile and desktop, over two years of discovery and support. I designed its Android app from scratch, reworked billing and subscriptions, and designed advanced filtering controls.
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Coaching platform for business advisers
A coaching platform for business advisers, on Windows and the web. I shaped and prioritised new features with the product owners, designed the navigation and quick actions, and mentored a junior designer.
Short engagements: wireframes for a video-guide product (2022), an icon set (2023), and requirements and wireframes for a calendar and groups feature (2023).
Client names are withheld under NDA.
Internal work
In-house products.
2022 to 2026
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Design system for the AltexSoft website
The design system for the AltexSoft website, from Figma tokens to coded components, built with a Figma-library designer. I audited the site, built the token system and the export to code, coded every component with its documentation, and set up guardrails so AI coding agents stay inside the system.
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Case-study system for the UX/UI department
The department's case-study system: light and dark deck templates on one pattern, an interview format that turns a designer's project into a case, and the case decks built with it.
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This site
Designed and built with AI coding agents: Astro, a token-based design system in light and dark, and an automated accessibility and visual test suite.
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AltexSoft's internal talent platform
A redesigned dashboard for AltexSoft's internal talent platform, with edit modes and notes.
Skills
The toolkit, AI first.
AI-native product design
- Claude Code and AI coding agents
- Spec-driven prototyping (BMAD method)
- Code prototypes in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Figma Make and Figma Sites
- Design tokens in code
- Design systems structured for automated implementation
- Design-to-code with the Figma MCP server
- Chat and assistant interfaces for AI products
- Automated design-lint and visual-regression checks
UX
- Requirements gathering
- Stakeholder interviews
- UX audit and heuristic evaluation
- User flows
- Information architecture
- Wireframes and interactive prototypes
- Customer journey maps and service blueprints
- Usability testing
- Competitor analysis and discovery workshops
- Feature prioritisation (MoSCoW)
UI design
- Figma
- Design systems: token-based, themeable, white-label
- Responsive web
- Data-dense enterprise interfaces
- E-commerce
- Windows desktop applications
- Mobile apps for iOS and Android
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)
Collaboration and delivery
- Design reviews and stakeholder presentations
- Working with BAs, product owners, architects and developers
- Presales prototypes
- Mentoring junior designers
- Miro, FigJam, Jira, Azure DevOps, ClickUp
Before AltexSoft
Freelance and education.
Freelance
Five years of freelance work after a UI/UX course, with four long-running clients under NDA, end to end: research, UX, UI, prototyping and testing, plus brand, motion and print where the product needed them.
- An e-commerce marketplace for used tools and goods: a redesign that went live, responsive breakpoints, user tests, and brand work around it.
- A food-delivery iOS app for the Canadian market: the whole app, from research and jobs to be done to tested prototypes and UI motion.
- Interactive museum exhibitions: touch-panel interfaces for the installations, exhibition print, promo pages and a corporate site redesign.
- Smaller products: landing pages, e-commerce sites, Android apps and a small CRM.
Education
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Web Design UI/UX, Lemon School
Course, UI/UX design
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Electromechanical college
Specialist, installation and operation of electrical installations
Languages
- English
- Professional working proficiency
- Ukrainian
- Full professional proficiency
Working together
If a project here looks like yours, the case pages go deeper, and I'm happy to walk you through the parts they can't show.