I’ve spent past 16 years designing, building and launching digital products. Now I can

10X your bussiness in ways you didn’t know

Areas of expertise

I specialize in the highest-grade design of digital products.

Building a product so effective that people want to buy and use it does not happen by accident. It is the result of thousands of choices.

I will bring everything you need to drive remarkable results for your business, ranging from direct research and design to full-scale design systems and design direction.

Product design
User research
Accessibility
Design systems

Let’s address one of the biggest threats to the success of your business: the disconnect between the products you offer and user needs. You know there is one if your sales team struggles to sell, if return on development is below expectations, if the drop-offs are high, and investors hesitate.

The good news is that your growth potential can be unlocked, starting with strategic UX leadership and moving on to creating an organization structure that is able to systematically deliver on customer needs at scale.

UX design direction
Research leadership
Mentorship & Training
Competence management
Team structure
Cross-team user-value centric operation

While vision is about having clarity of what to create, strategy is making a realistic plan of how to get there.

Within the UX field we recognize operational, tactical and strategic UX design, each for its own purpose. Strategic User Experience Design is by far the best equipped expertise for creating a vision, because it aims to understand (current and future) human experiences, regardless of technology.

Having previously founded businesses, led, designed, built and launched products at scale, I multiply the potential of Strategic UX with cutting-edge understanding of technology and 0→1 business strategy.

Product-market fit
Objectives
Metrics
Competitive advantage
Product vision
Innovation

Professional services

Strategic board advisor

€ 7.995ex. VATper month

Adopting Strategic UX can lead you to:

  • Massively bring down process costs
  • Identify big resource waste
  • Win tenders
  • Achieve product-market fit
  • Realism in your product vision
  • Innovate your products
  • Overtake your competition
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Permanent UX role

Agreed arrangement

I’m open to proposals for a permanent position in emerging technologies, specifically aiming for:

  • Design craft excellence, solving for impact
  • Design System to support all teams
  • Building and leading design team(s)
  • Design direction towards a strong product-market fit
  • Competitive differentiation through UX research
  • Raising organizational UX maturity level
  • Cultural transformation from “sales/engineering-led” to “customer experience led”
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10X your bussiness in ways you didn’t know

If your business has been left without attention for user centric design leadership and belongs to the “Low UX Maturity” category, which is estimated to contain 60% to 75%* of all businesses, the 10X value promise is likely an underestimate.

With proactive strategic UX the list of such improvements typically grows in hundreds to thousands improvements in a short amount of time.

Design principles that lead to success multiplication are universally applicable to your products, as well as your website, marketing, onboarding, hiring and more.

It is important to understand that multiplying your business success is not a one man’s job. Breaking through the established limits requires full backing by the executive leadership and high dedication of the teams. Customers will not flood you in mass if you fix just 3 out of 480 problems they have with your product, because you were only prepared to invest in “low hanging fruit”. Top tier rewards are gained by the businesses that are willing to put in top tier effort.

Here is how UX mature companies perform, on average:

UX-led businesses excel, and so can you

4x
Revenue
5x
Cost savings
6x
Time to market
26x
Valuation
Low UX maturity
High UX maturity
Research: UX maturity level 1 vs 5 - 2229 businesses (by InVision)

In case you are excited for this vision and are done with taking shortcuts only for minor results, then my value proposition stands.

Highlights of business that publish or sell products designed by me
Incredible!
Your UX suggestions really proved themselves during the last 2 weeks. I was able to put together a website that actually converts its traffic to sign-ups very well. I've got 30 users now, and I just found my first partner. Things are great!
Dávid Juhász
Founder @ RentSwap
Value driven
Worked with Slava on a team for 4 years. He is able to see beyond the question, uncovering greater value than the team anticipated.
Nathalia Hoogkamer
Principal Engineer @ CCV
Insightful
Slava is a very knowledgeable founder, UX'er, CX'er, and someone who truly knows how to deliver value to the customer and a business. Thanks again, Slava. We'll be in touch!
Robin Jansen
UX Designer @ APG
(User) Driven
Slava is a passionate advocate for the end user. He has dedicated himself to accessible and inclusive design. His proactive and organized approach also made our collaboration very pleasant.
Caitlin de Rooij
Accessibility Consultant @ Level Level

Mentorship

UX & Design

60 min • Free
  • Product design & research
  • Product metrics
  • Design systems
  • Organisational UX maturity
  • UX talent management
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Design review

30 min • Free
  • Live portfolio review
  • Live design critique
  • Live landing page roast
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Start-ups

60 min • Free
  • Product-market fit
  • Product strategy
  • Co-founders team
  • Pitch deck review
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