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.

Product Designer10+ 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.

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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