Katja Ishtokina
User Interface Designer at Kidults
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolKatja Ishtokina is a user interface and product designer with eight years’ experience crafting clear, empathetic digital experiences and practical design systems. Based in Lisbon, she blends design and front-end coding fluency—grounded in a Design and Coding degree from Higher School of Economics—with hands-on roles at Surreal, Clay agency, and more recent product work at Flipp and Kidults. Colleagues describe her as patient, organized, and skilled at translating between design and code, which helps her shepherd ideas from concept through implementation. She’s drawn to purposeful projects in social, art, and nature-focused domains, and has moonlighted in filmmaking, bringing narrative sensitivity to UX work. Notably, her background spans both junior frontend development and senior product design, enabling pragmatic, system-minded solutions that scale.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Design and Coding, Bachelor's degree Design and Coding at Higher School of Economics
Github Skills (4)
adc8
cli6
storage6
boxplot1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HeadExchange/HSEADCS-Ssylki
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
hse adc project ‣ links storage
Contributions:87 commits, 3 PRs, 66 pushes in 7 months
hselinksstorageadccli
semilunar/tact-app
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
HSEADC21 Diploma: Non-verbal messenger.
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
messengerdiploma
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