Dima Lagunov

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Design engineer.

Twenty years

designing

products,

and I build

them myself.

Research, interaction, UI, and then I build it. Usually two weeks to a working prototype, with coding agents doing a lot of the typing. Something you can click and try to break, not a file to imagine your way through.

I've judged the w3, Communicator, Davey and Orpetron awards, and picked up a few of my own: Awwwards Honors three years running, CSS Design Awards Site of the Day.

Austin, TX · US Permanent Resident · Available for contract (2–8 weeks) · Open to full-time

Personal Projects

SVG Chart

Figma plugin, published in the Community. Paste a table, get an editable vector chart instead of redrawing it by hand.

LENS

Walk your team's workflow through seven lenses and get back a diagnosis: where it breaks, what to fix first, and where AI actually fits.

Walk your team's workflow through seven lenses and get back a diagnosis: where it breaks, what to fix first, and where AI actually fits.

Countrast

Compare countries by population, area, and density, drawn as charts rather than tables. Built solo, from data pipeline to interface

Icon 1

An open-source icon family: 1,000+ icons in thin, solid, and regular styles. Drawn and released free to use

About

Most of my work has been where a bad interface costs real money: regulated finance, AI products, B2B logistics, robotics. Right now I'm at Immigrant Invest, running a design system across five products and designing compliant onboarding for cross-border wealth clients.

I spent most of those twenty years running my own studio, a hundred-plus projects across finance, insurance, manufacturing and retail. That's where the business-first habit comes from. When it's your own studio, the design has to work, not just look right.

Recent work

AI Speaking Tutor

Next-gen EdTech project — AI-powered language practice app

Discovered that B2+ learners don't need lessons — they need a 5-min daily "warm-up" to unfreeze speech. Designed the recorder-first architecture around that insight.

PizzaBot

Revolutionary food-tech project — robotic pizza kiosk

Designed the ordering interface for a fully robotic pizza kiosk — zero human operators, kiosk-only interaction model

PCBK

Logistics & Supply Chain Management System

B2B portal where 80% of users aren't employees — they're external wholesalers. I rebuilt the order, shipment, and stock views around the questions clients kept calling support to ask: "Can I order more this month? Where's my truck?"

Perm Opera Ballet Theatre

Theatre Tickets e-commerce

Redesigned the digital front door for one of Russia's oldest opera houses — a decade-old site with no mobile experience. Time on site +33%, page depth +56%, organic traffic +41%, page-to-page navigation +82%.

PizzaBot

Revolutionary food-tech project — robotic pizza kiosk

Designed the ordering interface for a fully robotic pizza kiosk — zero human operators, kiosk-only interaction model

Perm Opera Ballet Theatre

Theatre Tickets e-commerce

Redesigned the digital front door for one of Russia's oldest opera houses — a decade-old site with no mobile experience. Time on site +33%, page depth +56%, organic traffic +41%, page-to-page navigation +82%.

PCBK

Logistics & Supply Chain Management System

B2B portal where 80% of users aren't employees — they're external wholesalers. I rebuilt the order, shipment, and stock views around the questions clients kept calling support to ask: "Can I order more this month? Where's my truck?"

Honors & awards

Awwwards — Honorable Mention (2023, 2024, 2025)
CSS Design Awards — Site of the Day, Special kudos and UI-UX Award (2023, 2024)
w3 Awards — Silver (2025)
Online Design Awards (ODA) — Gold (2025)
Indigo Design Awards — Gold and Silver (2024)
The Vega Digital Awards — Gold (2023, 2024)
The MUSE — Silver (2024)

Contact

Need an AI feature prototyped?

2–8 week contract engagements. Tell me what you’re trying to build and I’ll tell you if two weeks is enough.

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Hiring full-time?

I’m open to product design and design engineering roles in Austin or remote (US).

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