# Anton Art

> Bringing your products’ UX to the next level

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/antonart

Designer with a track record of delivering award-winning, high-impact products, shaping and growing design organizations.

## Work Experience
### Director, Design for User Experience @ NIKTO
Jan 2023 – Present | United States
Product Design Consulting and Services. Design Crisis Management. 
Best solutions for the right problems.

### Senior Manager, Product Design @ Unity
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Led design for the Innovations Team at Unity Labs
• Contributed to exploring the future of human–AI interaction within the Unity Labs effort
• Headed design exploration of new paradigms in human–computer interaction for the next generation of creative professionals and environments
• Defined product design vision for the experimental CloudLab platform and its AI cloud prototypes
• Explored future design challenges the company would face as a platform and organization over the coming decade

### UX Lead @ Sledgehammer Games
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Established and led the team developing UX for Call of Duty which was nominated for the best User Experience in 2022
• Defined the strategy and implemented the process to meet the requirement to shorten development cycle from 3 years to 18 month

Projects:
Call of Duty Vanguard, Unannounced Title

### UX Lead @ Wargaming
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Built sustainable design and development process to support product lifecycle 
• Implemented a new design framework moving from hardcoding to entity component system
• Designed and built UX research lab to optimize performance

Projects: World of Tanks Console, an on-site usability lab, and various experimental IPs.

### Head of Human Interface @ Wargaming
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | St Petersburg City, Russia
• Established the UI department from the ground up. Over the course of two years leading it to become the most advanced and sophisticated UX/UI group among more than 10 development studios worldwide.
• Created efficient Design Framework together with UI Tech Lead. The Framework and approach became a standard for dev studios in the organization. 
• Designed a control system which became the industry standard for naval action games and real world naval simulators. 
• Established User Research in the organization, resulted in product performance.

Projects: World of Warships, Unbound framework and design system, embedded Game User Research unit.

### Lead UX Designer (UX Global) @ Wargaming
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Minsk, Belarus
• Oversaw UX on all the major projects of the World of franchise  
• Introduced Human Centered Design to the company culture
• Played a key role in establishing UX & IxD Research in the organization on a global level.

### UX Director @ Mail.Ru Group
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Moscow, Russia
• Developed and implemented the UX & Interaction design strategy and vision for user experience of studio projects.
• Built, led and managed the Interaction Development Team and the User Research Group.

Projects:
Skyforge, Allods Adventure, Allods Online, UX Research/Usability Lab project for Mail.Ru Group, a number of laboratory research and scientific collaborations projects for Mail.Ru Games


## Education
### Psychology in Psychophysiology
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

### Master of Arts in Education (M.Ed.) in Foreign Languages; English & Germanic Philology
Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/antonartemov
- Portfolio: https://AntonArt.myportfolio.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13