I am Philipp Balandin,
a
Design Director and Creative Leader with nearly 12 years of experience.
Available for Remote Work / Project
01.
For over a decade, I have navigated the rigid constraints of B2B, PromTech, and FinTech environments. I believe that enterprise software doesn't have to be visually exhausting.
True design happens when cold analytics meet pure creativity.
03.
A great product is a reflection of the people who make it.
My greatest professional achievement is cultivating a creative culture, empowering multidisciplinary teams, and turning bold ideas into industry standards.
02.
Design is more than just drawing interfaces; it's about guiding a raw spark of an idea all the way to a fully realized digital product.
My mission is to inject elegance into heavy logic, ensuring that high-load systems are not only efficient but fundamentally beautiful.
Role:
Design Director
Product Owner
The Challenge:
Standardizing design across a massive industrial corporation
The Solution:
Launched and implemented the first industrial opensource design system, Prizm.
It perfectly aligned with strict industry standards (ISO, HMI) while delivering a modern UI and responsive UX for high-load production and logistics systems.
Impact:
Drastically optimized cross-functional workflows and reduced concept-to-prototype development time by 50-70%
Role:
Lead Product Designer,
Design Director
The Challenge:
Designing for extreme cognitive loads and critical decision-making environments
The Solution:
Architected and delivered 100+ B2B and enterprise products, including dispatch centers, video walls, and desktop applications for top-tier industrial clients
Impact:
Bridged the gap between business users and complex data, optimizing over 30 major business processes
Role:
Design Director
Creative Director.
The Challenge:
Elevating the design maturity of a heavy-industry giant and eliminating silos between isolated product and development teams
The Solution:
Built a Design Center from the ground up, scaling it into a department with three specialized divisions: Product UX/UI, Presentation Design, and Motion/3D Design.
I successfully implemented optimized, cross-functional product creation processes covering the entire cycle: research, analytics, design, and development
Impact:
Set a new qualitative trend for all internal product teams and played a key role in the corporation's digital transformation strategy
Role:
Design Director
Lead Product Designer
The Challenge:
Fragmented data and extreme conditions causing high operational risks in the Far North
The Solution:
Architected a unified, high-load Enterprise ecosystem securing strategic export routes and maritime safety.
Impact:
15–20% Annual Freight Cost Reduction
and 100% Value Chain Visibility
across
the Arctic supply chain
Strategic & Leadership & Operations
Digital Transformation • Cross-Functional IT Workflows • DesignOps • Stakeholder Alignment • Investment Pitching • Business Process Automation
Product Design & Methodologies
E2E Product Creation • Enterprise & B2B UX/UI • Atomic Design Systems • Design Thinking • Product Analytics • AI Integration
Influence & Soft Skills
Executive-Level Presentations • Team Mentorship (20+ designers/analysts) • Agile Culture Building • Conflict Resolution • Team Empowerment
Core Stack
Figma • Cursor/Antigravity • n8n • Notion • Jira • Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
I am a proud father to a wonderful daughter and a relentlessly positive, empathetic person.
Creativity for me isn't just a job
it's a lifestyle
When I'm not architecting complex interfaces, you can find me skateboarding, diving into
video games, or traveling the world.
I take immense responsibility in everything I do, always striving to leave things better than I found them.
I am always open to discussing massive, complex enterprise products or leading a design direction for a company that puts the user at the center of innovation.
My Location Now
Almaty, Kazakhstan
(Open to remote/relocation/travel)
