Maria Skalkina

Hi, Maria's here!

Senior Product Designer,
5+ years.
Structure over chaos
in-house.

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Who I am

POV: age 8

I am going to be an artist!

1/6

POV: youth

Art school, graphic design degree, taste unlocked.

Ergonomics lectures 💕 2/6

POV: plot twist

Tried accounting, studied languages.

Kept laying out books on the side, just because I enjoyed it.

3/6

POV: came crawling back

Started again in Graphic Design, year later moved to junior UX/UI, no regrets.

4/6

POV: now

Senior Product Designer. Finally found my type of design & passionate for problems where there's no obvious answer.

I'm ready to grow as a professional. And genuinely curious about how other teams work. Because new environments mean growth.

5/6

My approach

I genuinely enjoy solving complex problems. Unclear tasks with no defined goal are actually where I thrive: there's a real problem to untangle, and I'm ready for it.

When a problem is unclear, I go find the answers. I'll reach out to whoever I need to — ask questions, map constraints, understand the goal, and work through possible paths. This isn't just about design. It's about the team and how work gets done.

Because when tasks are vague, connecting business goals to design decisions becomes impossible.

And I'm still not bored with product design 💘 6/6

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