About · Andrey Gurov
I design products end-to-end.
AI-native product designer in the SF Bay Area. Remote-first. I turn ambiguous business problems into production-ready systems: research, IA, interaction, visual, motion, and the workflows that make them ship.
I started out running an environmental-equipment company in Kazan, Russia, and learned web and design the practical way, building the sites my own business needed instead of hiring it out.
In late 2008 I moved to California for the work, took classes at Diablo Valley College in programming, design, and photography, and turned that practical interest into a profession as a designer at Bond Manufacturing.
Since then I’ve worked across product design, design systems, e-commerce, enterprise and internal tools, SEO and content architecture, and AI-assisted workflows, increasingly at the seam where product, business, and implementation meet.
What I do
- Product / UX / CX designer working end-to-end: research → IA → interaction → visual → motion
- Build production-ready systems and workflows, not isolated screens
- Comfortable as the only designer or the principal in a larger system
- AI-native: research synthesis, prompt/agent QA loops, and generative pipelines as part of the craft
Tooling
- Figma, FigJam, Variables
- React / Next.js for prototypes that behave like the real thing
- GSAP, Motion, React Three Fiber for interaction and 3D studies
- Python for research, scraping, and data work
- Claude / GPT / Perplexity for research synthesis and writing
- Next.js static export with file-based content (this site)
Off the clock
- 56 countries visited
- First US job: sous chef in a San Francisco restaurant
- Hundreds of informal hours mentoring early-career designers
- Russian: native · English: professional working proficiency