A technical product designer with a thing for design systems. Currently working on Chop-Chop, my cooking/fitness/health startup and taking contract work. Before that, I spent 4 years working on the future of design tools and the web as one of Webflow's first designers. And in another life before that, I started one of the first dedicated product design agencies in Bulgaria.
I spent four years working on visual development tools at early Webflow. I worked on features such as Ecommerce, Interactions, Memberships, Annotations, the internal design system and many more.
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As a design systems designer at Productboard, I helped build and scale their design system across mediums. I worked on core components, processes, accessibility, documentation and more.
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Relive is a platform for creating and sharing 3D videos of outdoor activities. I've worked with their team on design and development projects, focusing on user experience and interface design.
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BB-Team is the leading health and fitness portal in Bulgaria. I led the process of building v1 of their design system while working on a visual redesign.
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Proctest is an industry-grade testing tool used by NATO and the US army. I've worked with their team on a number of projects over the course of more than an year.
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I helped the fine folks at Netlify with the beta launch of their React-based static site CMS by designing and building the first small-buisiness website template for the CMS. It's built in Hugo and completely open-source.
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I've done work as a technical editor helping Daniel Shwarz write two books for Sitepoint (distributed by O'Reilly in the US). I'm also a contributing author covering product design and design systems at Sitepoint.
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Improved is a little website I use to explore digital product improvement ideas through writing and prototyping.
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In 2016, I did some design sprints and hi-fi chatbot prototyping work for Telepat. I also helped the team with their brand identity and website.
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Time Heroes is a platform for volunteering and doing good. In 2014 I helped them with some pro-bono work by designing and developing an awareness campaign website.
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The Crazy Ones is the old name of Spacefarm. My partner and I co-founded the studio in 2013, focusing on branding and product design. Check out our not-so-great old website here.
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I’ve had three experiences which have brought me dangerously close to death. In a weird way, they are the baseline to which I access the quality of my life. This post covers how empowering those experiences can be.
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Lately I’ve been extremely fascinated by the early days of interactive computing and the history of HCI in general. I wonder why the work of people like Alan Kay and Doug Engelbart aren’t more popular amongst product designers these days.
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I recently sold my FitBit Charge 2 and upgraded to a Huawei Watch 2. I wanted to go back to a proper smartwatch, the FitBit just wasn’t cutting it for me after being used to a full-featured device like the Apple Watch.
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I attended my first 100km XCM race two weeks ago, so I decided to write a short blog post about it. This is the toughest sports-related thing I’ve done so far in my life and it was great fun.
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I listened to the latest episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz earlier today. Like most things related to accessibility, it affected me in a way that might not be uncommon among product people.
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This is a living document where I maintain a wishlist of things I’d like to have in a future product design tool. Since I originally wrote this, I’ve started working on a hacky design tool that covers some of the mentioned shortcomings.
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I’ve been using the developer previews of iOS 10 for a few months now and I’m really pleased with it. The updated design language feels more natural, tappable and super playful compared to the stark constraint of iOS 7. The overall usability score is definitely higher.
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Hamburger menus are the prevalent way to access the majority of a site’s navigation these days. Last year, I believe it’s become clear that the hamburger is a subpar approach that screams desktop first.
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