work by Daniil Chebotarev

//about

I'm a product designer based in Zürich. I lead design across Pearson's English-language products, including Mondly, with 1M+ monthly learners. There I built the design system and research practice from almost nothing and grew the team from one designer to five.

The work I care most about right now is AI. I drive AI-native ways of working across a ~20-person design org: I ran a Cursor workshop series for 18 designers, presented at a company-wide townhall on AI-assisted prototyping beyond Figma, and built a full end-to-end prototype of a new institutional app directly in code. I also mentor and unblock designers on their own projects, helping them ship with these tools.

I learn fastest by making things real. Put something in users' hands, watch what happens, then iterate. My side projects work the same way: a context-aware AI workspace, an AI image-to-Lottie tool with thousands of monthly users, and Fakturio, a Swiss and EU invoicing product, all designed and built solo.

I move from research to interaction, visual design, motion, systems, and shipped frontend without losing context. I came up through motion and visual storytelling before product, so I care about the polish, and I know when to be pragmatic and ship.

A lot of my best work sits at the intersection of modalities: audio cues and haptics in Mondly's learning flows, real-time WebGL on product launches, agent interfaces where latency and trust matter as much as layout.