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Vitalina Makus

Senior UI/UX Designer · Founder of Atomize

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  • Senior UI/UX designer specializing in design systems, Figma tokens, and design-to-code workflows.
  • Cross-functional background spanning product design, component library architecture, governance, and engineering handoff.
  • Author of in-depth guides on Figma Variables, design tokens, dark mode architecture, and scalable component libraries.
  • Founder of Atomize - a Figma plugin that automates token export, variable setup, and codebase sync for product teams.

Bio

Vitalina Makus is a senior UI/UX designer who specializes in design systems - the token layers, component architecture, and governance structures that keep product UI consistent as teams and products scale.

She has built and maintained shared design libraries across a range of product organizations, covering initial audits and token structure through contribution workflows and long-term library maintenance. Her work spans marketing surfaces, dense data-heavy applications, multi-locale transactional flows, and public-sector digital services.

She founded Atomize to solve a problem she encountered repeatedly: Figma Variables are a solid token foundation, but getting those values into a codebase reliably - without manual effort or drift - required a tool that didn't exist. Atomize automates that pipeline, from Variable setup and semantic token naming to JSON, CSS, and TypeScript export with GitHub sync.

She writes about design systems on the Atomize blog, covering Figma design tokens, Variables, dark mode architecture, plugin workflows, and the governance habits that separate systems that scale from libraries that decay.

She works with product and engineering teams on naming conventions, export pipelines, and release processes - the operational layer of a design system that tooling accelerates but cannot replace.

Experience

Product design, UI systems

  • Built and maintained a production UI component library serving complex, data-heavy product surfaces.
  • Translated creative direction from external partners into a structured, implementable interface system.
  • Embedded across product, operations, engineering, and QA from early discovery through launch and post-release iteration.
  • Applied Figma deeply throughout: auto layout, variants, component properties, Variables, and automation plugins; shipped responsive layouts across desktop, tablet, and mobile.
  • Continued post-launch with new features, seasonal campaigns, and iterative UI improvements.

Founder, independent product

  • Designed UX and UI from scratch for web and mobile around regulated document-signing workflows for creative professionals.
  • Led product discovery and research, defined user journeys, and framed key product decisions - including real-world offline and remote usage scenarios.
  • Shipped a multilingual, responsive interface across many locales, a marketing site, and a component-based design system maintaining visual consistency across all surfaces.
  • Worked directly with development and QA throughout; gathered user and partner feedback; maintained a strong focus on accessibility, clarity, and layout scalability.

Education and operations platform

  • Introduced and scaled a component library in a cross-functional Scrum team, accelerating UI delivery across scheduling, CRM-style workflows, and analytics.
  • Designed scheduling and booking flows for staff and learners; built task views and statistics panels for course engagement tracking.
  • Delivered a business performance dashboard enabling tenant organizations to monitor outcomes more clearly.
  • Implemented organization-wide visual customization to increase system adoption; collaborated with business analysts, customer stakeholders, developers, and QA.

Public digital service

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

Brand and marketing design

  • Contributed to advertising concepts, packaging, and print collateral across luxury goods, FMCG, and healthcare during an intensive internship with structured mentor feedback.

Freelance design

  • Early remote work across illustration, graphic design, and web-oriented UI for a variety of clients.

Projects

  • Atomize

    A Figma plugin for design system teams - automates token export, Variable setup, semantic naming, and GitHub sync so design values reach the codebase without manual effort or drift.

  • Design system consulting

    Hands-on engagements with product teams: token audits, library architecture, contribution governance models, and rollout playbooks for teams at different stages of maturity.

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