Since 2000 Avito developed like a classified and grew into the biggest and most respectful classified in Russia. At the same time Avito emerged into new markets such as real estate, automobiles and mass recruitment. From product and interface points of view it was reasonable to extrapolate interface patterns created…

Why we decided to move the prescorring process online Avito Jobs is an app for searching jobs and ‘blue-collar’ workers. Working on this product we constantly communicate with drivers, cooks, movers, waiters etc. On the other hand we keep in touch with big employer’s recruiters who specialise in mass recruitment. Both empathise that it’s important not just to find…

What is Avito Jobs and its audience Avito Jobs is a Russian app and website to search and find a job or a worker: employers post vacancies and job seekers publish their CVs. Candidates can respond to a vacancy by phone or via in-app messenger. Employers can browse CVs while the access to candidate’s contacts is paid. …

A couple of months ago I joined an IT company which works according to Agile approach carefully using scrum framework. This was completely new to me. However, very soon I found myself in a role of a scrum master of my team. While onboarding I realised I’m already a little…

This is a story of a small but very pity failure. It was autumn 2015 when I joined Yandex.Market, the biggest Russian e-commerce, as the head of design team. From the very beginning I faced many challenges including diving into new field of internet shopping. I spent many evenings surfing…

Once upon a time when a design department of Yandex was beginning to set up, the design team held regular meetings for drafts and ideas exchange. Some of these meetings were dedicated to some related issues. For example, once we shared our impressions on books we read. We discussed how…

In the previous article on design for Yandex.Zen, the smart personal newsfeed, I described the process how we made this newsfeed more personal. Somehow this caused another sudden problem. At some point our key metric— average session time…

I’m a product designer in Yandex.Zen, one of the most popular Russian digital media and blogging platform. Zen is a personal newsfeed. Smart algorithm collects articles from thousands of bloggers and media. Then it forms an individual feed for each reader according to what he or she has already taken…

Полтора года назад моя жизнь сложилась так, что я оказалась в Азии, в Сингапуре. Будучи дизайнером продукта с десятилетним опытом работы, в качестве этнографического эксперимента я пустилась на поиски работы на местном рынке. Я отправила резюме во множество компаний, поговорила с большим количеством HR-работников, прошла несколько десятков увлекательных собеседований и…