Anna Shainskaya

Working at Oath's AI Lab (formerly Yahoo) where I collaborate with a team of researchers + engs on conceptualizing and building experiments around conversational assistance (CUI).

• Partnering with UX research team to identify and validate primary assistance use-cases
• Collaborating with a dedicated researcher and prototyper on weekly usability lab testing
• Closely working with five teams of engineers to keep product strategy aligned with technical feasibility
• Running carefully-planned bucket tests on products with 120+ million of daily users

As the sole designer in a 10-people startup, I own direction for all design-related projects.

• Designing Doky experience on iOS, Android and web
• Leading user research and feature prioritization to define the needs of our current 500,000+ registered users worldwide
• Defining design guidelines, iconography, visual language, interactions, and brand identity
• Producing decks and advocating for users at investor meetings

I divided my time between leading user-centered design for WorkSimple app and transforming B2B legacy applications into consumer-quality workflows.

• Defined and delivered the flagship WorkSimple mobile and web product to 1M+ users to redefine how people work with complex business applications
• Created product’s competitive edge by infusing design thinking in the company, establishing best design practices across functions, including customer success, engineering and go-to-market strategy
• Established spec delivery best practices by producing fully interactive, high-fidelity designs to ensure strong communication within the product and remote engineering teams
• Proactively worked with customers to discover pain points and product gaps and incorporate learnings into product brainstorming and roadmap prioritization
• Instituted a unified design infrastructure across engineering, PM, and product marketing, which resulted in a more efficient, consistent, and systematic approach to UI implementation

Worked with the founders to design the on-demand car services platform.

• Helped to develop the idea of the product and key features
• Successfully shipped the first version of the mobile app to the App Store and Google Play store
• Designed custom iconography and defined a style guide

• Produced musical deliverables to satisfy the needs of clients, gallery owners, and exhibiting artists
• Applied practical knowledge of sound design to create theme-specific auditorial experiences
• Mastered new digital tools in order to solve artistic challenges: Cubase and Reason
• Initiated ideas that resulted in increase of returning visitors and enhancement of sales

Activities and Societies: Conducted an interdisciplinary research on auditorial cognitive development. My thesis concentrates on prenatal period and its impact on brain development and taste formation in early postnatal period.

Studying best UX practices and directly applying them in hands-on projects with local startups. I researched, conceptualized, designed, and tested various web and mobile platforms. I performed well under strict deadlines and limited resources. I refined my design process & mastered new tools and techniques.