Crafting Intuitive
Digital Experiences



Events & Social Matching App
MeetBurg is a mobile app concept for people seeking friends or like-minded company to join events. It focuses on real-world connections through shared interests – from art meetups to outdoor games.

Car UI | HMI Design
This project explores the design and implementation of a next-generation car interface, focusing on enhancing driver interaction and safety.

Car UI | HMI Design
This project explores the design and implementation of a next-generation car interface, focusing on enhancing driver interaction and safety.

Mixed Reality Social Media App
This is a concept proposal of an XR app for people who want to meet each other online, but at the same time in-person and outside.

Mixed Reality Social Media App
This is a concept proposal of an XR app for people who want to meet each other online, but at the same time in-person and outside.

Task Tracking App
Time management app with capabilities of tracking, scheduling and revising tasks and workflows.

Task Tracking App
Time management app with capabilities of tracking, scheduling and revising tasks and workflows.

Music App Concept
Designed for immersive listening and effortless navigation. Discover artists, stream your top tracks with visually rich, distraction-free experience.

Music App Concept
Designed for immersive listening and effortless navigation. Discover artists, stream your top tracks with visually rich, distraction-free experience.
Product-minded UX/UI designer who takes products that are still at an early stage and turns them into coherent systems that hold together as a whole rather than as a set of separate screens. Over the course of two years, I designed Vibetype (a product brand of maevsi UG), which is a mobile event platform, at a German startup, and in doing that I built its first design system from scratch and redesigned its core flows end to end, working the whole time alongside the engineers rather than apart from them. My background spans both information-systems engineering and design, and given all of that, what I care about most is not really the surface of an interface but rather the structure that sits underneath it, meaning navigation that actually holds up when it is put under pressure, components that scale as the product grows rather than breaking, and design decisions that manage to survive contact with real constraints.
Internship
maevsi UG – Vibetype, event-tech startup (EXIST-funded), Kassel · remote · full-time
Built Vibetype's first design system from scratch: meaning color, typography, icons and a reusable set of components – buttons, fields, nav bars, states and variants, all of them sitting on one shared spacing scale, and in doing that I replaced what had been a lot of scattered assets with one single visual language that the whole product could draw on.
Structured design system as a shared Figma foundation that was engineered from the start for direct handoff to the developers, so that the tokens and the components could be integrated straight into the build rather than rebuilt again on the other side, which is the thing that cut down both the inconsistency and the friction that tends to come with handoff.
Redesigned the core mobile flows end to end, meaning dashboard, event creation, invitations, notifications and vouchers, and alongside that I took navigation that until then had run into dead ends and reworked it into a clearer hierarchy, which is what brought the cognitive load down for the user.
Drove design the whole way through implementation and not just as far as the handoff, in the sense that I ran reviews, clarified to the engineers how the components were actually meant to behave, and tied the Figma notes back to the live tickets, so that the UI that finally shipped stayed on-spec rather than drifting away from what had been designed.
Internship
maevsi UG – Vibetype, event-tech startup (EXIST-funded), Kassel · remote · full-time
Built Vibetype's first design system from scratch: meaning color, typography, icons and a reusable set of components – buttons, fields, nav bars, states and variants, all of them sitting on one shared spacing scale, and in doing that I replaced what had been a lot of scattered assets with one single visual language that the whole product could draw on.
Structured design system as a shared Figma foundation that was engineered from the start for direct handoff to the developers, so that the tokens and the components could be integrated straight into the build rather than rebuilt again on the other side, which is the thing that cut down both the inconsistency and the friction that tends to come with handoff.
Redesigned the core mobile flows end to end, meaning dashboard, event creation, invitations, notifications and vouchers, and alongside that I took navigation that until then had run into dead ends and reworked it into a clearer hierarchy, which is what brought the cognitive load down for the user.
Drove design the whole way through implementation and not just as far as the handoff, in the sense that I ran reviews, clarified to the engineers how the components were actually meant to behave, and tied the Figma notes back to the live tickets, so that the UI that finally shipped stayed on-spec rather than drifting away from what had been designed.
Contributor
maevsi UG – early-stage product, Kassel · remote · part-time
Joined at a point when there was not yet any design system in place, and from there I improved the UX and UI across the core areas of the product during a stretch of rapid feature growth, and in the way that I did that, I kept both the usability and the overall coherence intact even as the product kept expanding rather than letting them slip as more got added.
Mapped and then restructured the early navigation and the early flows, and in doing that I surfaced the inconsistencies that later on were the very things that justified the centralized design system, and that not only justified it but also, more importantly, shaped what it ended up becoming.
Partnered with the founders in order to line the interface decisions up with the product strategy rather than letting them drift apart, and alongside that I kept the branding consistent the whole way across the product, marketing and merchandise, so that it read as one thing rather than three separate ones.
Contributor
maevsi UG – early-stage product, Kassel · remote · part-time
Joined at a point when there was not yet any design system in place, and from there I improved the UX and UI across the core areas of the product during a stretch of rapid feature growth, and in the way that I did that, I kept both the usability and the overall coherence intact even as the product kept expanding rather than letting them slip as more got added.
Mapped and then restructured the early navigation and the early flows, and in doing that I surfaced the inconsistencies that later on were the very things that justified the centralized design system, and that not only justified it but also, more importantly, shaped what it ended up becoming.
Partnered with the founders in order to line the interface decisions up with the product strategy rather than letting them drift apart, and alongside that I kept the branding consistent the whole way across the product, marketing and merchandise, so that it read as one thing rather than three separate ones.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
University of Europe for Applied Sciences
Thesis & Project: Cultural Dimensions of Mobile UI Design: Toward a Universal Framework for Global User Experience.
Acquired in-depth knowledge of user experience design for innovative UX/UI applications.
Excelled in visual design through comprehensive wireframing and prototyping coursework.
Conducted thorough user research and testing to improve product usability and satisfaction.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
University of Europe for Applied Sciences
Thesis & Project: Cultural Dimensions of Mobile UI Design: Toward a Universal Framework for Global User Experience.
Acquired in-depth knowledge of user experience design for innovative UX/UI applications.
Excelled in visual design through comprehensive wireframing and prototyping coursework.
Conducted thorough user research and testing to improve product usability and satisfaction.
Bachelor's Degree
MIREA - Russian Technological University
Profile: Technologies for developing secure software for information systems.
Thesis & Project: Formation of a model of the company’s presence on the Internet and evaluation of the virtual activity of the company.
Bachelor's Degree
MIREA - Russian Technological University
Profile: Technologies for developing secure software for information systems.
Thesis & Project: Formation of a model of the company’s presence on the Internet and evaluation of the virtual activity of the company.

Ivan Lebed
UX/UI Designer with hands-on experience in user-centered design, prototyping, and visual storytelling, crafting intuitive digital experiences.
2024
Ivan Lebed, Independent Creator.


Events & Social Matching App
MeetBurg is a mobile app concept for people seeking friends or like-minded company to join events. It focuses on real-world connections through shared interests – from art meetups to outdoor games.

Car UI | HMI Design
This project explores the design and implementation of a next-generation car interface, focusing on enhancing driver interaction and safety.

Mixed Reality Social Media App
This is a concept proposal of an XR app for people who want to meet each other online, but at the same time in-person and outside.

Task Tracking App
Time management app with capabilities of tracking, scheduling and revising tasks and workflows.

Music App Concept
Designed for immersive listening and effortless navigation. Discover artists, stream your top tracks with visually rich, distraction-free experience.
Product-minded UX/UI designer who takes products that are still at an early stage and turns them into coherent systems that hold together as a whole rather than as a set of separate screens. Over the course of two years, I designed Vibetype (a product brand of maevsi UG), which is a mobile event platform, at a German startup, and in doing that I built its first design system from scratch and redesigned its core flows end to end, working the whole time alongside the engineers rather than apart from them. My background spans both information-systems engineering and design, and given all of that, what I care about most is not really the surface of an interface but rather the structure that sits underneath it, meaning navigation that actually holds up when it is put under pressure, components that scale as the product grows rather than breaking, and design decisions that manage to survive contact with real constraints.
Internship
maevsi UG – Vibetype, event-tech startup (EXIST-funded), Kassel · remote · full-time
Built Vibetype's first design system from scratch: meaning color, typography, icons and a reusable set of components – buttons, fields, nav bars, states and variants, all of them sitting on one shared spacing scale, and in doing that I replaced what had been a lot of scattered assets with one single visual language that the whole product could draw on.
Structured design system as a shared Figma foundation that was engineered from the start for direct handoff to the developers, so that the tokens and the components could be integrated straight into the build rather than rebuilt again on the other side, which is the thing that cut down both the inconsistency and the friction that tends to come with handoff.
Redesigned the core mobile flows end to end, meaning dashboard, event creation, invitations, notifications and vouchers, and alongside that I took navigation that until then had run into dead ends and reworked it into a clearer hierarchy, which is what brought the cognitive load down for the user.
Drove design the whole way through implementation and not just as far as the handoff, in the sense that I ran reviews, clarified to the engineers how the components were actually meant to behave, and tied the Figma notes back to the live tickets, so that the UI that finally shipped stayed on-spec rather than drifting away from what had been designed.
Contributor
maevsi UG – early-stage product, Kassel · remote · part-time
Joined at a point when there was not yet any design system in place, and from there I improved the UX and UI across the core areas of the product during a stretch of rapid feature growth, and in the way that I did that, I kept both the usability and the overall coherence intact even as the product kept expanding rather than letting them slip as more got added.
Mapped and then restructured the early navigation and the early flows, and in doing that I surfaced the inconsistencies that later on were the very things that justified the centralized design system, and that not only justified it but also, more importantly, shaped what it ended up becoming.
Partnered with the founders in order to line the interface decisions up with the product strategy rather than letting them drift apart, and alongside that I kept the branding consistent the whole way across the product, marketing and merchandise, so that it read as one thing rather than three separate ones.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
University of Europe for Applied Sciences
Thesis & Project: Cultural Dimensions of Mobile UI Design: Toward a Universal Framework for Global User Experience.
Acquired in-depth knowledge of user experience design for innovative UX/UI applications.
Excelled in visual design through comprehensive wireframing and prototyping coursework.
Conducted thorough user research and testing to improve product usability and satisfaction.
Bachelor's Degree
MIREA - Russian Technological University
Profile: Technologies for developing secure software for information systems.
Thesis & Project: Formation of a model of the company’s presence on the Internet and evaluation of the virtual activity of the company.

Ivan Lebed
UX/UI Designer with hands-on experience in user-centered design, prototyping, and visual storytelling, crafting intuitive digital experiences.
2024
Ivan Lebed, Independent Creator.