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Portrait of Yelyzaveta (Lisa) Chyhryna, arms crossed, in a dark violet suit.

Senior Product Designer and AI Product Builder, from Ukraine, based in Belgium. 8+ years taking complex B2B products from first research to production.

  • 2026 – now

    Hostaway

    Senior Product Designer, AI Product Builder

    I lead design for Trust Accounting and Bank Reconciliation on a global vacation rental platform: bank setup, transaction matching, reconciliation.

  • 2023 – 2026

    Trinetix

    Senior Product Designer, AI Product Builder

    I built a design system 9 teams use across 15+ projects, cutting handoff time by about 30%. I ran 20+ client workshops and started shipping production code with Claude Code.

  • 2020 – 2023

    DTeam

    Senior UI/UX Designer, Team Lead

    I led 4–5 designers across 8+ client projects in healthcare, fintech and e-commerce, and owned UX direction from research to delivery.

  • 2018 – 2020

    Freelance

    UI/UX Designer

    Branding and digital design for international clients.

  • Clinical Operations Platform

    Lead Product Designer

    A clinical trials platform, from zero to production. The client expanded the scope and its investment.

  • Donation Platform

    Senior Product Designer

    Givelify, a US platform for nonprofit giving, with 2M+ donors and 80,000+ organizations. I led the organization dashboard and worked on the donor app.

  • First Student

    A bus fleet allocation and capacity tracker for North America's largest student transportation provider.

  • Big Four audit and consulting firm

    I governed a design system used by multiple teams, and designed internal tools across several projects.Under NDA

  • HubSync

    Product Designer, AI Product Builder

    A US accounting platform.Under NDA

  • 1Konnection

    Product Designer

    A marketplace for buyers and sellers.Under NDA

  • Logistics
  • Property management
  • Mental health and wellness
  • Mobile apps for creative artists
  • Operating accounting for a small startup
  • E-commerce

  • Lead

    I lead products end to end, from first research to production, and I own the UX direction.

  • Mentor

    I managed and mentored a team of 4⁠–⁠5 designers across 8+ client projects.

  • Teach

    I've run knowledge sharing and courses inside the company to raise other designers' skills, including AI adoption workshops.

  • Product data

    Who the users are, and where they drop off.

    • Pendo
    • Google Analytics
    • Omni

  • User research

    Why they drop off, in their own words.

    • Useberry
    • Google Meet
    • Loom

  • Workshops

    Teams agree on the problem, then track the work.

    • Miro
    • FigJam
    • Jira
    • Confluence

  • Design

    Directions, systems and proven patterns.

    • Figma
    • Figma Make
    • Storybook
    • Mobbin
    • Awwwards

  • AI build

    Agents write, review and generate. I direct them.

    • Claude Code
    • VS Code
    • Cursor
    • Multica
    • ChatGPT
    • Midjourney
    • Nano Banana

  • Ship

    Real code, deployed and live.

    • GitHub
    • Vercel
    • Supabase
    • Cloudflare

years in product design
workshops facilitated
teams on my design system
projects built on it
  • People and data
  • Systems, not screens
  • Prototypes in code
  • Decisions made easy
Education:
BA in Germanic Philology, Oleh Honchar Dnipro National University

  • Ukrainian

    Native

  • English

    C1

  • Dutch

    A2, still learning

  • Singing
  • Dancing
  • Cooking
  • Travel
  • Long walks with Luna, my puppy