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Vitalina Makus

Senior UI/UX Designer · Founder of Atomize (design system tooling)

  • Senior UI/UX designer with years of experience shipping interfaces for product teams.
  • Worked across multiple products — from exploration and systems work through handoff and governance.
  • Focus: design systems, design tokens, variables, and Figma workflows.
  • Founder of Atomize (design system tooling).

Bio

Senior UI/UX designer with years of experience shipping interfaces for product teams — from marketing surfaces to dense, component-heavy applications.

She has contributed across multiple products and teams, covering exploration, production polish, design QA, and long-term maintenance of shared libraries.

Her focus is design systems, design tokens, Figma variables, and workflows that keep design intent faithful in code without slowing teams down.

She has shipped libraries, token schemas, and documentation patterns that scale as organizations add themes, modes, and platforms.

Founder of Atomize (design system tooling), where she turns recurring system pain into productized workflows for UI/UX teams.

She partners with product and engineering on naming, governance, and export pipelines so tokens stay trustworthy from Figma to production.

Experience

Product organization — UX/UI

  • Built and evolved a shared UI component library for complex, production-grade surfaces.
  • Collaborated with external creative partners to turn visual direction into a logical, implementable interface system.
  • Worked with product, operations, engineering, QA, and other designers from ideation through launch — including design reviews, team rituals, and roadmap-level decisions.
  • Used Figma deeply: auto layout, variants, components, variables, and plugins for automation; shipped responsive layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
  • After release, continued with new functionality, seasonal campaigns, and iterative interface improvements.

Independent product — founder-led

  • Designed UX/UI from scratch for web and mobile around regulated signing and document workflows for creative professionals.
  • Led discovery and research, framed product decisions, and mapped full user journeys — including real-world offline and remote usage.
  • Shipped a multilingual, responsive interface (many locales), a simple marketing site, and a component-based design system for a single visual language across surfaces.
  • Partnered closely with development and QA; gathered user and partner feedback; prioritized accessibility, visual clarity, and scalable layouts.

Education and operations platform

  • In a cross-functional Scrum team, introduced and extended a component library to speed UI delivery across scheduling, CRM-style workflows, and analytics.
  • Designed scheduling and online booking flows for staff and learners; built task views and statistics panels to support course engagement tracking.
  • Contributed to a business performance dashboard so tenant organizations could monitor outcomes more easily.
  • Implemented organization-wide visual customization to deepen adoption; collaborated with a business analyst, customer stakeholders, developers, and QA.

Public digital service (short engagement)

  • Simplified a high-stakes transactional flow for a very broad audience — mixed age, background, and digital literacy — with emphasis on clarity and trust.

Brand and marketing design

  • During an intensive internship, contributed to advertising concepts, packaging, and print collateral across luxury goods, FMCG, and healthcare — with strong mentor feedback loops.

Freelance design

  • Early remote work spanning illustration, graphic design, and web-oriented UI for varied clients.

Projects

  • Atomize

    Design system tooling for Figma — tokens, variables, and workflows that reduce drift between design and code.

  • Design system programs

    Hands-on work with product teams: audits, library structure, contribution models, and rollout playbooks.

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