# Yuriy Sklyar

> Design, Business, Innovation

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

Notable highlights:

● Founded and led a design agency through which I got a chance to work with the largest brands in the world. Company recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
● Led design for Microsoft Mobile Analytics’ 35M+ userbase. My core design ideas were used by Google to re-imagine Google Analytics two years later, and are still around to this day.
● Scaled Autodesk Tinkercad from 45k to 15M+ users through UX redesign and data-driven growth initiatives; Tinkercad is currently at 90M+ users. To this day I run the largest Tinkercad Group on Facebook, and on occasion teach Tinkercad in schools upon request.
● Lead designer for marketing campaigns that resulted in 31% revenue increase for Google Fi through rigorous A/B & Multivariate testing.
● Rebuilt Google Fi Wireless App and Web design systems from the ground up (in Figma) saving 1,000+ hours annually through simplified, scalable workflows and components.
● Led re-architecture of IBM’s internal digital agency, Bluewolf, they acquired for $200M, greatly improving usability and conversion.


More about me:

● I like starting and growing businesses.
● I design and make products better - regardless of the industry.
● I am able to come up with creative ways of achieving business goals while verifying with data.
● I thrive on complexity and a good challenge - give me just 1% of your trust, and I will earn the other 99%!
● Always looking to collaborate with like-minded to better our civilization.


Things that interest me the most at the moment are:

● Technologies of the future,
● internet (IoT),
● real estate (architecture/design, construction, marketing, etc),
● space [exploration],
● manufacturing [3D printing, etc],
● automotive, marine and aeronautics industries,
● education,
● healthcare,
● stock market/fintech.


Quick portfolio:

https://yuriysklyar.myportfolio.com
www.yuriysklyar.com/bio-resume

## Work Experience
### Founder @ Threefifty
Jan 2005 – Present | Greater Edmonton Metropolitan Area
Design studio I founded that tackles interesting and meaningful challenges globally, in creative and efficient ways.

● Built and lead, tight-knit, project specific teams.
● Worked in virtually every global market with focus on North America.
● Work has been published in design books, written about in magazines, and taught in universities as part of curriculum.
● Responsible for management of high value accounts.
● Responsible for outlining creative direction in every form of media (digital, print, video, etc.).
● Worked with Fortune 100, 500, and 1000 companies with stakeholders ranging from C-level to Leads.

### Co-Founder @ 3D Printing Star
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building confidence and fostering creativity for the next generation of creative geniuses through fun, hands-on projects. Looking for partners and investors to grow further. Get in touch if you think you can help!

### Co-founder @ Precise Modeling
Jan 2006 – Present | Edmonton, Canada Area
Precise Modeling builds the most exquisite scratch-built scale masterpieces. I contribute on all levels: ideation, planning, full product dev cycle, marketing, sales, biz dev.

www.precisemodeling.com

### Founder @ Modular Magnetic
Jan 2015 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
A 3D printable modular design system that allows for rapid architecture/interior design and planning with applications in education and business.

Looking for partners and investors to grow this idea further. Get in touch!

www.modularmagnetic.org

### Co-founder, Contributor @ ILTWMT
Jan 2011 – Present | Greater Edmonton Metropolitan Area
Where the bored and curious go to unwind. Interesting articles, how-to's, famous quotes, cool photos, videos, and stuff to buy.
● Grew project from scratch to ~1M monthly views and 25K+ social followers.
● I oversee design, experience, and content.
● ILTWMT recently added a new way to experience entertainment through exclusive camps and events at Burning Man and more recently Love Burn. I oversee the planning, infrstructure, art, design, and music at these events.

Interested in partnering to help grow this project? Please get in touch!

### Co-founder, Chief Design Officer @ Oaklu
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
From innovation, to how clients feel when they use Oaklu products on daily basis, I'm responsible for how the company is perceived globally. You'll find me contributing to how interiors are planned, the overall concept, shape, proportions and positioning of structures; marketing, sales, and biz dev.

www.oaklu.com

### Design, Systems, Growth, Accessibility, Blinkk @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designing and growing Google's wireless branch.

● Lead design system architect, spanning Android, iOS, and Web.
● Lead Google Fi website designer.
● Introduced order and hierarchy to improve accessibility, internal workflows and processes.
● Rebuilt design system from scratch in Figma. Greatly reduced complexity and increased performance. Design systems have saved over 1000 working hours/year.
● Simplified Components and introduced Autolayout + new Figma functionality to make them more flexible and responsive.
● Created responsive textstyle library based on Material 3 for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile breakpoints to be used across Google.
● Serve as a link between UX/front-end design and engineers.
● Collaborated with Google Material Design team + internal stakeholders.
● Outlined hierarchy of tags and elements for web and accessibility.
● Design A/B tests and variations to improve overall conversion of all the landing pages.
● Designed for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile breakpoints.

### Lead UX/UI Designer @ Azul
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, CA
Azul is one of the oldest and most regarded JAVA companies. Over the past few years I've been helping the team improve their product offering one project at a time. Everything from analytics and dashboards, to communities and marketing pages.

● Created and maintained design/UI systems in Figma.
● Outlined creative direction and brand of several key products and community.

### Lead UX/UI/Front-end engineer @ Trinchero Family Estates
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Napa, CA
Re-architected company-wide infosys for world’s second largest family-owned winery and fourth largest overall. Working with Sr. Director to outline the new vision and get buy-in from key stakeholders.

### Growth Hacker @ WhiteHat Jr
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Onboarding and Registration funnel CRO for the largest online coding and math portal for kids.

### Email Marketing/Front-end engineer @ Ureeka
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Burlingame, California, United States
Worked with Directors and key stakeholders of the fastest growing SMB mentorship startup to outline the design foundation of all platform service emails; coded {{dynamic}} templates.

### UX/UI, Technical Writing Lead @ Migo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked directly with the CEO and VP’s as a first technical writer and UX designer for one of the hottest fintech startups in Africa/Silicon Valley.

● Improved brand.
● Re-wrote and re-designed API documentation.
● Re-designed the main website which drove a significant revenue increase for the company.

### UX/Front-end Lead @ IBM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led re-architecture of IBM’s internal digital agency, Bluewolf, they acquired for $200M, greatly improving usability and conversion.

● Worked directly with C-level, Directors, and an outside agency to assist front-end integration into the back-end (Drupal).

### CMO @ D2A Audio LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Brought next-generation technological breakthroughs in the world of audio to worldwide audience of audiophiles. Repositioned the brand, created marketing materials, managed creatives.

www.d2aaudio.com

### Growth Lead, UX/UI Design, Consumer Products @ Autodesk
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Pier 9, San Francisco, California
Designed, coded, grew, and produced content for the most used online 3D Design and 3D Printing app, Tinkercad (tinkercad.com).

● Achieved 20% increase in user engagement.
● Doubled website’s conversion via A/B and multivariate testing.
● Userbase went up from 45k to 15+ million (currently 50M).

### Senior Experience Designer, Consumer Portfolio @ Autodesk
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Pier 9, San Francisco, California
Helped Autodesk (leader in software services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, entertainment) break into the consumer world via user-friendly design, engaging content, B2B partnerships, and timely, creative marketing campaigns supported by data/testing.

● Introduced new ways [and a new department] of growing entire line of consumer products.
● Lead B2B partnership designer.
● Came up with A/B and Multivariate testing direction.
● Helped Autodesk break into EDU sector with design, creation and growth of platform for schools and maker spaces.
● Community saw 1,566% increase.
● Userbase increased from 150k to 2,5M (in less than a year).
● Bootstrapped entire front-end of all the consumer products.
● Created some of the stickiest, highly viewed content (100M+ views)
● Won monthly company Star Award [out of 7000+ people].
● Opties (Optimizely's conference) 2015 finalist & People's Choice award for "Most Dramatic Business Impact".

### Design, Marketing & Branding @ PayNearMe
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Advised PayNearMe on the new design and marketing direction which helped the company further expand their network to 25,000+ locations across USA.

### Product/Visual/UX Design Lead, Mobile Analytics @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
I was asked to re-imagine and re-design how users interact with mobile analytics.

● Integrated my ideas into the new design framework for Microsoft Visual Studio’s (Mobile Center) 35M+ user base.
● Core design ideas were used by Google to re-imagine Google Analytics two years later, and are still around to this day.

More here: https://www.yuriysklyar.com/redesigning-mobile-analytics-microsoft

### Product Design Lead @ Gbox by Oncircle
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Menlo Park
Joined multimedia monetization startup as the first Product/UX/UI/Visual designer; outlined the foundation for design and experience of several key B2B and B2C products, along with the overall brand.

### Senior Product, Visual, UX Design @ AOL
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
Lead concept designer on a ‘tight deadline’ project for AOL’s flagship website, Movifone – the oldest online movie brand in America. Collaborated with Sr. Director of Product to re-design website and mobile app.

### Design Lead @ Real Page Maker
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Edmonton, Alberta
RPM was my first startup experience. Focused on real estate industry, products enabled Realtors (and entire Realties) to set up “virtual offices” to sell properties. Due to company's infancy, I had to “wear many hats”, while keeping up with the fast-paced work environment. This gave birth to my love for real estate, for which I'm forever grateful.

The company ended up becoming one of the leaders in Canada in their respective field, up until founders decided to explore other opportunities.

### Design Lead @ Media-Masters Creative Communications Inc.
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Edmonton, Canada
Media-Masters was my first experience working in a digital shop environment - straight out of school, and an inspiration for the future to start my own studio... The company was small enough for me to be able to move freely between roles on daily basis: from designer, to marketer, to account manager, and so on...

This position not only grew me as a designer, it also taught me many important lessons on client relations and how to be a good manager, for which I'm forever grateful to the company's founder.

### TV News/Sports Editor @ A-Channel
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 | Edmonton, Canada Area
After being noticed for my proficiency and passion for video (filming, editing, etc.) during my college years, I was presented with a unique opportunity to work for A-Channel – the top TV station in the City of Edmonton. Once there, I’ve collaborated with directors, producers, anchors, reporters and cameramen to create top news and sports stories (6 o’clock news + late night sports overview).

The quality and style of my editing quickly caught on around the station, and eventually I was appointed as a lead editor to concept a new TV segment for newscasts. The first installment was so well received, it resulted in production of subsequent episodes.


## Education
### Diploma of Education in Digital and Interactive Media Design
NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yuriysklyar
- Website: https://yuriysklyar.myportfolio.com
- Website: https://yuriysklyar.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05