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Shift scheduling for hourly teams — from competitor analysis to a working app.
Product Designer & Design Engineer.I design products — and build them.
I take products from a rough idea to something people can use: research, user flows, prototypes in Figma — and then a working build, shipped with Claude Code.
Available nowBudapest, HungaryEU work rights
- 100% Job Success on Upwork
- 91+ client projects
- Designing interfaces since 2019
- Aviation engineer by training
Products I designed and built
In development
Craft Snacks
Online store for Ukrainian craft snacks with worldwide delivery.
Nikoletta Nagy
Landing page for a hair technologist and educator, with a lead bot.
Demo sites for small businesses
Ten realistic websites for Hungarian small businesses.
Client websites
Recent sites for restaurants, reporters, photographers and small food brands — designed and built end to end.
Rasmus Pedersen
Bilingual portfolio for a freelance reporter covering Europe and conflict zones.
Vagon Étterem
Website for a restaurant in a railway carriage by Budapest's Vérmező park.
AV Automotive Visuals
Site for a Budapest car photographer: listing photos that help cars sell for more.
SoluKopchu
Online shop for hand-smoked fish and poultry from Szeged.
Olesya Stepaniuk — UGC creator
Portfolio site for an actress and UGC creator, built to win brand deals.
Concepts & experiments
Briefs I set myself, built the same way as client work — no clients, no approvals, no stock photography.
NOKTURN Hvar
Self-initiated concept for an open-air club on the Adriatic — built, not mocked up.
Client work is always a negotiation. A concept is where I get to answer the brief I would have written myself — and it still has to run in a browser, not sit in Figma.
Earlier design work
Client websites and prototypes from my Upwork and agency years.
Genova Law
Website design and concept for an immigration law firm in New York.
Limits & Proximities
Website for an art gallery in Washington, DC.
DealMasterPro
Marketing site prototype for a technical SaaS.
Pick of Destiny
Landing page prototype for a rock guitar school.
Pets Adopt
Early mobile prototype for a pet adoption service.
Delta Motorcycle
Brand identity and web brand book for a motorcycle brand.
Games I made
Browser games I designed and built — good practice for systems, feedback and onboarding.
Forklift Frenzy: Load & Roll
Turn-based warehouse puzzle — 43 levels in three chapters.
FIREWALL
Voxel retro shooter: hold the port against a DDoS, wave after wave.
From the first conversation to a product in use
Understand
Talk to the people who will use it, look at what competitors get wrong, write down what success means.
Map
User flows and structure before pixels — so the hard questions come up on paper, not in production.
Prototype
High-fidelity screens and clickable prototypes in Figma to test the flow early.
Build & ship
A working product with Claude Code — deployed, measured and improved, not left as a handoff.
Where I've worked
I started as a mechanical design engineer at the Motor Sich aviation plant, modelling diagnostic systems for helicopters. That is where I learned that details are not optional.
Since 2019 I have designed websites, dashboards and product interfaces — first for clients on Upwork, then in-house at Purple Wave and Growkal. Today I design and build end to end: SaaS, online stores, landing pages and browser games.
2026 — now
Independent product designer · Own products & client work
- Design and build products end to end with Claude Code: a shift-scheduling SaaS, an online store with a Telegram bot, client websites and browser games.
2022 — 2026
UI/UX Designer · Growkal
- Designed responsive interfaces, dashboards and landing pages for digital products and marketing sites, aligned to business goals.
- Used AI tools to speed up research, generate UX-copy variants and produce visual concepts for A/B tests.
- Built interactive Figma prototypes to validate flows; kept handoff pixel-perfect and the design system consistent.
2021 — 2022
UI/UX Designer · Purple Wave
- Led UI/UX for a website-builder platform: scalable templates, reusable components and guidelines that became a lightweight design system.
- Designed crypto and fintech interfaces — a trading dashboard, an exchange and a token landing page.
- Mentored junior designers and reviewed layouts to keep quality consistent.
2019 — 2021
Freelance UI/UX Designer · Upwork
- Web and mobile interfaces for international clients, from early ideas to production-ready UI.
- Lightweight UX research — stakeholder interviews, competitor reviews, user-flow mapping — turned into wireframes and prototypes.
2013 — 2019
Retoucher & Photographer · Self-employed
- High-end retouching for fashion and product photography — composition, light and storytelling I now use in UI.
2011 — 2015
Mechanical Design Engineer · Motor Sich aviation plant
- Precise 3D CAD models for helicopter diagnostic systems under strict aviation safety standards.
What Upwork clients wrote
“Oleg has very good design skills, and good vision. He pays attention to detail and completed everything perfect! Will hire again!”
“Hardworking designer with a good taste.”
“His quality is phenomenal and he has risen to every task, even very difficult composites. He communicates wonderfully and has always met his deadlines.”
Hiring a product designer who can also ship?
Open to full-time roles — Budapest, remote in the EU, or relocation. Legal to work in Hungary and the EU.