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Valeriа Kaarna

Valeriа Kaarna

Product Designer in Porto, Portugal

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About

Product designer with 5 years of experience designing сomplex products and business tools, from discovery to implementation.

Experience

2024 — 2026

Product Designer at GMS

Led end-to-end design of a new CPaaS platform for mid-market and enterprise messaging: dashboards, campaigns, contact databases, templates, two-way chat, analytics across SMS, WhatsApp, and Viber. Ran discovery with stakeholders, audited the legacy UI, defined information architecture and core flows, designed all screens and states, prototyped, handed off, and oversaw implementation. Built a design system from scratch as a foundation for other products in the GMS ecosystem. As a sole designer, introduced a design process in an engineering-led company — how to brief, review, and put design into product decisions.

2021 — 2024

UI/UX Designer at GMS

Redesigned the internal platform used by technical engineers. Implemented a page-by-page UX audit, error mapping, and interface constraints that prevent invalid input. Users reported the product became far easier to use, onboarding time dropped significantly, and many error types became impossible. Designed SSO Platform for the GMS product ecosystem — one entry point to every service per user.

Projects

TRAILVEL

A service for B2B bookings including UI-system and screens for business-trip arrangements like flights, hotel search, and group booking.

Education

2009 — 2015

Master of Social Communication in Electronic Media and Media Design at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Skills

UI/UX DesignProduct DesignDesign SystemsInformation ArchitecturePrototypingUser ResearchUX Audit