Summary
Vlad Kudinov is a founder and product design partner with 12 years of experience turning early startup ideas into build-ready, investor-ready products. He specializes in crafting elegant, developer-friendly designs that prioritize user experience and speed up engineering delivery, having shipped work at Atomic and multiple startup projects. As co-founder of DesignModo and Nice, Very Nice, he scaled design products and frameworks that attracted large audiences and helped non-designers create polished interfaces. Vlad blends hands-on visual polish with practical design systems and guidelines, ensuring consistency and fewer edge-case engineering surprises. Based in Los Angeles, he also co-founded FocFoc and maintains a portfolio of design work on Dribbble that highlights a knack for clear, scalable UI patterns. He’s known for turning fuzzy product visions into streamlined, market-ready designs that accelerate fundraising and user adoption.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor Programming, bachelor Programming at South Ural Polytechnic College
English, Russian