Nadezhda Zimina Open to projects and full-time roles
0→1 · COMPLEX PRODUCTS · SHIPPED

I design products
and help teams
get them done.

I help teams figure out what to build — and get it shipped. Ten years across startups, B2B and enterprise, mostly where the problem isn't defined yet and the interface is genuinely complex.

10+years in product & UX
Co-founderof Viaduco ↗, a CBT therapy app

Different situations.
Same thing: make it happen.

From building a product from zero to fixing activation and simplifying complex workflows.

Interfaces used inside large organizations.

Customer-facing services and internal tools where a wrong flow costs money or safety — energy, petrochemicals, banking, telecom, aviation, logistics, industrial operations.

GazpromSiburAlfa-BankVTB Mobileand others
Whether it's a product from zero, an existing one that needs reshaping, design direction for a team, or hands-on delivery — the sequence is the same.
01

UNDERSTAND

The product, its users and its real constraints — before any screens.

02

DECIDE

Make the messy part legible and get the people who sign off aligned.

03

DESIGN

Explore, prototype and test until the decision is something buildable.

04

SHIP

Stay close to implementation until the thing actually works.

Nadezhda Zimina
Nadezhda Zimina

I like being where things are still being figured out.

Co-founder and product designer at Viaduco. Before that: UX lead and product owner at H3llo Cloud, a B2B cloud platform startup, and 4.5 years as senior UX/UI designer at CROC, one of Russia's largest systems integrators.

DOMAINS

Oil pipelines, container orchestration, banking, telecom, logistics, business aviation, CBT therapy — learned by talking to the people who do the job.

GETTING IT APPROVED

I present and defend design to the people who have to sign it off — founders, engineers, legal, security. In enterprise that meant up to 25 approvers on one decision, so a design that stalls in review is a problem I know how to solve.

TOOLKIT

Discovery interviews, JTBD, CJM, prototypes, testing, UX audit, design systems. Amplitude for product analytics — I read the funnel myself rather than waiting for a report. Figma, Miro, Linear, Notion, and AI agents in the loop for research synthesis, copy and prototyping.

BACKGROUND

10+ years in product and UX design, co-founder experience. Degree in management from Plekhanov University, plus two years at the University of Hertfordshire.

h3llo.cloud ↗Web platform for B2B infrastructure · PaaS, EdTech, growth marketing and go-to-market VTB Mobile ↗Web, iOS, Android · telecom · launched from zero
Sibur intranet ↗Internal social network for a petrochemical giant · web + Android · video ↗
Oil & gas majorConstruction inspection · tablet + web console · offline industrial field ops