Viyan Portnoff
Figma User Group Leaders Host & Organiser at Friends of Figma, Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolViyan Portnoff is a UX engineer and design-systems specialist based in Stockholm with nine years of experience translating user-centered design into robust front-end implementations using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. She has led design-system initiatives for large organizations including Arbetsförmedlingen and Teledyne FLIR, bridging design and development to create consistent, accessible interfaces. As an active community organiser — hosting Figma and Femmes in UX meetups — she combines hands-on prototyping with leadership that drives adoption across teams. Her background spans UX research, product design and engineering, giving her a rare fluency in both interaction patterns and implementation constraints. Viyan’s startup and photography experience add entrepreneurial creativity and a strong visual sensibility to her pragmatic engineering approach. Outside work she’s an avid climber and squash player, a detail that often surfaces in her iterative, persistence-driven design process.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Art Director and advertising , Art Director and advertising at Vindelns folkhögskolaUmeå teknikprogram Ingenjör - tekniker- produktion / Engineering - production technician, Umeå teknikprogram Ingenjör - tekniker- produktion / Engineering - production technician at DragonskolanMaster of Science in Interaction & Design, Master of Science in Interaction & Design at Umeå Universitysvensk grundskolebehörighet / Swedish primary competence, svensk grundskolebehörighet / Swedish primary competence at Östra gymnasiet (Fridhemsgymnasiet)
Arabic, Swedish, English
Github Skills (5)
scrapy5
regular-expression5
python4
pandas3
open-source2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
viyanateaa/iViyan
Sep 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
viyanateaa/Personalwebsite
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 13 days
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