Maxim Shishkin — Product Designer. Indie Founder.

Maxim ShishkinProduct Designer.Indie Founder.
Maxim ShishkinProduct Designer.Indie Founder.

14+ years designing digital products, building apps, and helping founders turn ideas into real products.

Product Designer

14+
Years Experience
0 → 1
Idea to Launch
AI × iOS
Current Focus
Founder
Business Thinking

Experience

Selected roles, 2014–present

Senior Product Designer
Tattoo Commerce
2025–Present
Senior Product Designer
AI & Web3
2024–2025
Senior UI/UX Designer
Logistics
2022–2025
Creative Director
Web3
2021–2023
UI/UX Designer
Web3
2018–2023
UI/UX Designer
Web2 Products
2014–2023
Agencies & Freelance
Web & Graphic Designer
Web2
2012–2014

How I work

Plan, design, build, ship, improve

Plan

Research, product strategy, user flows, system architecture.

  • FigmaFlows and architecture
  • OpenAIResearch synthesis
  • MobbinPattern reference
  • GoogleDesk research

Design

UI, design systems, prototypes, interaction design. Branding (optionally).

  • FigmaUI and systems
  • CursorDesign-to-code
  • Blender3D and product viz
  • PhotoshopImage craft
  • After EffectsMotion
  • GrokExploration
  • Krea AIImage generation

Build

AI-assisted implementation for web and mobile.

  • CursorAI-assisted implementation
  • SwiftNative iOS
  • React NativeCross-platform
  • XcodeBuild and ship

Launch

Backend, deployment, hosting, publishing.

  • SupabaseBackend and auth
  • VercelDeploy and host
  • WebflowMarketing sites
  • FramerLanding pages

Improve

Analytics, user behaviour, product decisions.

  • ClaritySession replay
  • Google AnalyticsTraffic and funnels
  • HotjarHeatmaps
  • TypeformUser feedback

What clients say

1 / 4

Maxim operates far beyond the interface. He quickly understands the business, challenges assumptions, and consistently turns complex product problems into solutions users can actually understand and adopt.

Available for selected client work

Work together

Indie Founder

2
Products live
286
Active users
1
App Store launches
13
Ideas brought to life

Life

40+
Countries lived in
100 km
Solo ultra in Egypt
60–70
Kilometers run weekly
1 Book
Reflections from the Wild
2x
Life’s greatest project
Nazaré lighthouse
Visited Nazaré.
Surf in Nazaré
Surf in Nazaré.
Chill in Porto
Chill in Porto.
Dom Luís I Bridge, Porto
Porto.
On the water in Weligama
Weligama.
Sunset wave, Weligama
Weligama, last light.
Paddling out
Paddling out.
On the shore with a child
The shore.
Cooking over the fire
Our usual picnics.
Family under the palms
Family on the canyon rocks
On the rocks.
Running the dirt road
Weekly miles.
Running in the city
City miles.
Desert run
Desert run.
100 km recorded on the phone
100 km, Egypt.
Lying in a field of blue flowers
In the flowers.
Night on the ridge
Night on the ridge.
Swimming in a frozen lake
Ice hole.
Motorcycle in the dust
On the bike.
Dirt bike in the desert

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