# Anna Iurchenko

> Senior Designer at Google (AI for Education). Visual Thinker. Ukrainian 🇺🇦

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anna

I’m a Senior Designer at Google, where I design products and experiences that address people’s needs using the latest advancements in AI. I’m driven to design solutions that contribute to a better future for everyone.

Currently, I’m focusing on the future of learning and education. Before that, for around six years, I worked on creating AI-powered solutions for health — designing and launching new human-centered products, defining design strategies, and leading service design. Prior to Google, I led product design for a variety of startups.

I incorporate visual thinking into my design process and bring a strong foundation in human-centered approach, prototyping and high-quality design. I strive to foster a collaborative, positive team environment and shape a strong design culture.

I enjoy working on the early stages of products and am passionate about solving complex problems, launching experiences that address them, and continuously experimenting, refining, and improving design solutions through a deep understanding of users.

I’ve published essays on design in Fast Company and UX Collective, co-authored O'Reilly's “97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know”, spoke at many design events, and co-authored two peer-reviewed HCI-focused papers.

I love observing the world around me and capturing it in my sketchbook, going to museums, and spending time at the beach building tunnels with my toddler. I like to write to clarify my thoughts (occasionally sharing them at anatinge.medium.com), enjoy explaining ideas with simple visuals, and sometimes illustrate books.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer, AI for Education @ Google
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Learning and education in the AI era.

### Senior Product Designer, Health AI @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California
At Google’s Health AI team, I designed products and services that leveraged AI to make high-quality care more accessible to everyone.

I led programs to explore the future of health and brought new ideas to life through thought-provoking stories and inspiring demos. I worked on experimental, early-stage projects focused on identifying new opportunities for Gen AI to meet people’s information needs and created product concepts that reimagined how people make sense of complex topics.

I led UX design for an AI-powered application that helps people understand and make decisions about their skin conditions. This tool was integrated into Google Lens and now helps people around the world every day. I also designed AI-enabled applications to support doctors in detecting eye diseases—tools that are now on track to improve the accuracy and efficiency of eye screening for millions in Thailand.

Throughout my time at Google Health, I focused on making AI technologies more approachable and understandable. I was especially excited about designing new products that tackled hard health problems at scale and exploring how to bring cutting-edge AI technology into people’s hands in a way that empowers them to make better health choices.

### Senior Product Designer | UX Researcher @ Transplant Hero
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Transplant Hero is a monitoring system that promotes medication adherence. Studies conducted at Montefiore Medical Center demonstrated that patients that were using Transplant Hero had better lab results in the early postoperative period when they are at highest risk for medication nonadherence.

My role:
- Actively involving in defining product strategy and product design concept, in planning releases and new iterations. 
- Influencing the shape of the product with research and data while executing design work using high quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and interactive prototypes.
- Advocating for design by sharing my work and presenting cross-functionally, while precisely articulating design rationale.
- Creating a unified, end-to-end experience through close collaboration with team members (engineers, designers, product manager).

### Senior UX Designer | Product Designer @ Stanfy
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018
Stanfy is a design and technology company based in San Francisco that is partnering with both startups and corporate innovators to transform their businesses, put their customer needs at the center and win in their markets. 

At Stanfy I am working on solving complex design challenges, translating opportunities into intuitive design solutions across web and mobile apps. Implementing user-centered design process from analysis, ideation and research to prototypes, testing, visual design, implementation and launch.  

- Leveraging full range of skills from product design, interaction design, and visual design to build exceptional user-centered experiences.
- Planning and conducting research activities and collaborative workshops with stakeholders to understand business goals and customers' needs, and to define experiences and product strategy.
- Translating users needs into clear design solutions, design them in detail, and work collaboratively with engineers and product owners to implement.
- Conducting usability studies to validate design decisions.
- Working in a fast-paced iterative Agile development environment.

### Product Management | Business Development @ Stanfy
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
Worked on a range of activities related to the company’s marketing and growth strategy, establishing company’s office in San Francisco and building Stanfy brand in the USA market.  Coordinated acquisition of new clients and advised them on mobile product vision and design strategy. 

- Advised clients on mobile product vision & product roadmaps
- Developed and implemented company’s business development strategy including strategy for entering a new market - the USA
- Coordinated and mentored marketing and sales team, establishing accounting processes within the company 
- Supported sales efforts to plan projects and present to potential clients
- Managed and developed client relationships, solving conflicts
- Represented the company at the mobile industry events
- Led workshops with client teams to co-design user interface
- Organised and optimised collaborative processes between business development department and project teams

Achievements:
- Learned the value of the team, the power of collaboration and having smart people around
- Built strong company brand on the Eastern European markets 
- Successfully entered a new market, the USA, now the primary source of company's new businesses
- Won several key companies as clients and helped to release more than 30 iOS and Android projects
- Organised effective client engagement and sales processes
- Established client-centered services within the company. Due to that and the great performance of the design and engineering teams, around 80% of the company’s projects are repeatable businesses.
- Organised several mobile entrepreneur community events in San Francisco

### Mobile User Experience Designer @ Stanfy
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
Designed user experience and created user interface for various iOS and Android applications. As a Project Manager oversaw to client and team’s happiness by meeting client’s expectations and creating an inspiring and collaborative atmosphere within the team.

- Collected experience insights through stakeholder interviews and user research
- Created user flows and wireframes, UI and project specifications for mobile applications
- Analysed and estimated requirements, presenting them to a client
- Defined product vision and strategy together with a client
- Planned projects and managed their development 

Achievements:
- organised design process (collecting stakeholders' insights, creating user flows and wireframes, user tests and only after that, defining project visual design concept) 
- organised collaborative design process with product owner and engineers 
- set up client service and accounting processes  
- came up with the effective principles for project estimations and planning through a series of experiments 
- released 8 mobile projects

### Senior Product Designer | UX Researcher @ Byte Foods
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco
Bytefoods manufactures connected fridges, stocks them with the food and places them in offices and public spaces all over the Bay Area. The new tablet interface that I designed provided flexibility in facilitating sales of the last items before they spoil, engaged consumers in dynamic pricing (surge pricing) and simplified the user experience of food discovery and checkout.

My role:
- Unpacked complexity of various requirements (business, data source, engineering restrictions, timeline) and come up with a solution that strikes the right balance of user needs, business objectives, and product insights.
- Worked closely with multi disciplinary team of engineers, content writers, executive team to lead the product design processes from ideation to production.
-Crafted prototypes (paper and interactive) and quickly validated concepts with the team, the stakeholders and the users. 
- Produced high fidelity, production ready designs.
- Collaborated with engineers during implementation phase to ensure the product meets design intent.

### Sketchnoter & Visual Facilitator @ Sketchit.co
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | http://sketchit.co
I am a visual thinker and sketchnoting helps me to learn, remember and organise information. It is a great tool to explain your ideas, make notes and stimulate thinking. I used to make sketchnotes at my work meetings, when together the team and I brainstormed about new ideas, discussing user needs, new features for the products or analysing user interface and user experience. 

Also, I enjoy creating real time visual notes at the conferences and workshops as a visual facilitator or graphic recorder. It boosts the learning process at any training or workshop, helps to create more productive conversations, ensures that messages are clearly understood and serves as a perfect unique hands-on material for participants after the event. 

- Graphic recording and visual facilitation at workshop, seminars, and conferences 
- Organizing workshops to teach and inspire others with the power of sketchnoting https://goo.gl/rnJnJp

### Co-founder, Organiser @ SF Mobile Entrepreneurs Meetup
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
http://meetup.com/SF-Mobile-Entrepreneurs/
http://www.eventbrite.com/o/stanfy-4807064543

- Analysing industry trends and company goals to develop relevant and exciting event topics and key messages for an audience
- Connecting with speakers and helping them to prepare talk that will resonate with the meetup interests and expectations
- Hosting and moderating the event
- Organising collaborative processes within the project team 
- Responsible for event promotion, partnerships and communications

Achievements:
- Organised events on a variety of topics from mobile design principles to growth and retention strategies and pitfalls of mobile development
- Cracked the key principles of a good meetup :)
- Made SFME meetups stick - around 40% of participants of our previous meetups are returning visitors

SF Mobile Entrepreneurs is a community and regular San Francisco based meetups are initiated and organised by Stanfy. Meetup is bringing together business and tech people with various experiences and approaches in creating mobile apps to share and educate each other about the mobile app development process, share practical tips, and analyze patterns that lead to success.

### Mentor for Interaction Design Specialization @ Coursera
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
As a part-time mentor and advisor for the Human-Centered Design introduction class, I am helping students to learn how to design better products.

### Co-founder, Producer @ Kyivcast
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Kyivcast is the online project created to present life at Ukraine's biggest city Kyiv through short video stories. Our aim is to introduce the variety of cultural life of Ukraine's capital: beautiful places, interesting events and creative people. Together with my partner and friend Daria Rosyuk I created around 50 cool videos about Kyiv’s life. We did everything starting from writing scenarios and scripts to finishing video production and post production.

http://www.youtube.com/user/kyivcast/videos

### Tech Conferences Producer @ Non-Profit
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
- Organised and facilitated event planning, budgeting;
- Coordinated PR and online promotional activities; 
- Fundraising. Planned and coordinated sponsors' activities before and during the event; 
- Created engaging content for the site; 
- Opened and closed the official part of the event;

### Digital Designer @ 77Agency
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
- User and business research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, usability tests and creating user interface guidelines for several proprietary projects including 77Academy, 77Finance and 77Tool.
- Development and implementation of creative concepts for clients’ online marketing campaigns.
- Agency brand identity design.

Achievements:
- Designed intranet for 77Academy, a training course on digital marketing for graduates.  
- Re-imagined user experience and implemented it in the easy-to-use user interface for 77 Tool - web application that allows agency's Account Managers to manage multi-channel digital campaigns.
- Created user interface guidelines for some of the company’s products that defined standard user interface guidelines for the creation of new components and ensured user interface consistency.
- Close work on design together with the product manager of 77Finance.co.uk, best buy finance service for UK market, allowed to grow user retention and engagement
- Initiated and implemented product acceptance processes by designers that allowed 

77Agency (http://77agency.com) a full service digital agency with offices in Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, Riga and Sydney. The Agency’s objective is to provide clients with marketing solutions that help them to achieve their goals through the use of the latest digital channels, measuring the results and minimizing the investment risk.


## Education
### Continuing Studies Program in Human-Centered Design. Design Thinking
Stanford University

### Human Computer Interaction
UC San Diego

### Master’s Degree in Device Design and Engineering
National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'​

### Bachelor’s Degree in Device Design and Engineering
National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'​


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/iurchenko
- Website: https://anatinge.com

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