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Product Design & Discovery
Research, problem framing, information architecture, user flows, prototyping, and validation across web and mobile products.
Available for Senior Product Designer, Design Lead, and AI product design opportunities
Senior Product Designer & Design Lead creating AI-powered products and complex systems.
I design AI-powered digital products, complex workflows, and scalable design systems across fintech, SaaS, EdTech, and internal platforms — from discovery and interaction design to validation, delivery, and launch.
- Product design across fintech, SaaS, EdTech, and iGaming
- 7+ years
- Trained in UX, product thinking, and design systems
- 500+ students
- LLM-powered flows, human review, guardrails, and failure states
- AI product design
- Scalable foundations for complex and multi-product platforms
- Design systems
- Cross-functional delivery from discovery to launch
- Design leadership
Core Strengths
Core Strengths
The capabilities I use to turn complex product challenges into clear, scalable, and trustworthy experiences.
I work across product strategy, UX, interaction design, AI product design, design systems, and complex digital workflows. My experience includes fintech products, SaaS platforms, EdTech, internal tools, and 0→1 product development.
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AI Product Design
LLM-powered experiences, agent-assisted workflows, human review, guardrails, failure states, and AI output evaluation.
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Complex Systems & Design Systems
Fintech platforms, B2B workflows, dashboards, admin tools, and scalable systems for multi-product and white-label environments.
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Design Leadership & 0→1
Cross-functional alignment, design critique, mentoring, design-to-development delivery, MVP definition, and product launch.
Selected Case Studies
Selected Case Studies
A focused selection of product design, AI product design, fintech UX, SaaS, EdTech and complex-systems work.
Yourhero.me
Storytelling-based portfolio platform for creatives.
- Role
- Founder, Product Strategy, UX, Brand, Go-to-Market
- Product Storytelling
- Portfolio UX
- Creator Tools
BDG Internal Products
AI-assisted and operations-focused education tools, career workflows and internal product systems.
- Role
- COO, Product Lead, UX, AI-assisted product development
- Internal Products
- Education Systems
- Product Operations
Highway Fintech Products
Mobile banking, core banking and digital lending solutions for financial institutions.
- Role
- Design Team Lead
- Fintech UX
- Design Systems
- White-label Product Design
Imaci.am
Education discovery platform helping parents and learners find schools, centers, tutors and events in Armenia.
- Role
- Founder, Product Designer
- EdTech
- Discovery UX
- Information Architecture
Testimonials
Trusted by students, teams and collaborators.
Real words from people I’ve taught, worked with, and built alongside.
LinkedIn recommendation
“Vahagn has strong design skills and a gift for sharing his knowledge in a clear way. He deeply cares about his students’ success and always keeps them up to date with the design industry.”
Shushan Avchyan
UI/UX Designer · Product Designer · Design System Creator
LinkedIn recommendation
“Vahagn leads by example. He keeps the team motivated, shares knowledge, and is one of the best managers I’ve ever had. He is creative, innovative, and always brings fresh ideas.”
Meri Stepanyan
Design Team Lead
LinkedIn recommendation
“Vahagn is an out-of-box thinker, always full of innovative and creative ideas. He finds smart, targeted solutions for projects and brings loyalty, teamwork, flexibility and positive creativity to the team.”
Lusine Danukhyan
HR Programs Manager | MBA
Writing
Notes on AI, product, UX and creative systems.
Product, AI
How I Rebuilt the Business Development Group Website with Claude Code
How I used Claude Code to rebuild a production website, migrate years of WordPress content to Laravel, preserve bilingual content and URLs, and keep improving the product after launch.
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AI, Startups
AI Is Not Ending the Startup Era
Why AI is lowering the technical barrier to building startups while raising the importance of product thinking, ambition, distribution, and choosing the right problem.
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Product, Operations
Building BDGuru: From Internal Chaos to an Operating System
How I designed BDGuru, an internal operations platform that brings course management, schedules, students, certificates, workflows, and education operations into one structured system.
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Startup
How to Start a US Business from Armenia: My Step-by-Step Experience
If you're an entrepreneur in Armenia looking to expand your business to the United States, you probably have a lot of questions.
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AI
How I Use Mindstudio to Conduct Deep Research and Build Smarter Creative Strategies
In the world of design, research isn’t just a step in the process—it is the process.
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Learning, Design, Tools
Designing for the Future: Thriving in the AI Era
As we approach 2025, the role of designers is at a crossroads. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and rapidly evolving technologies is redefining what it means to be a designer.
Read MoreTeaching
Teaching product-minded designers and teams.
I teach designers, founders and teams how to think through UX, product logic, storytelling and AI-enabled workflows.
- UX/UI Training
- AI Product Thinking
- Portfolio & Personal Branding
- Product Storytelling
- Team Workshops
Connect
Let’s build clear, scalable digital products.
Open to Senior Product Designer, Lead Product Designer, Founding Product Designer, and AI product design opportunities.