Video Intro

Alexander Vilinskyy

Digital designer, founder of Super Clear.
Based in London, frequently in NYC/SF.

Bootstrapped profitable businesses, worked on consumer brands and assembled creative product teams. Contributed to startups like Grammarly, Spark, and Documents and hundreds of others productivity and communication apps. Advising.
Twice a year I write an issue with updates from my life, projects, thoughts, links and some photos. Follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube.
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What people say about my work

When I'm hired by founders, they receive a bundle of my "features": workbooks of progress, team management, creative direction, and zoom jokes.

Alexander's collaborative and direct leadership style drive focus on what matters, especially in fast-paced and early stage environments. Building alongside Alex is a joy.

Kelly McEttrick, Co-Founder at Decipad

Alexander is a highly empathetic and impactful product thinker. He pushes what’s best for the user, his process cuts through ambiguity, and his designs are highly effective.

Renato Valdés Olmos, Head of Design at Grammarly

Alex is one of the most professional and talented designers I've ever known. His communication skills and out of the box thinking inspire the team to achieve higher results together.

Eugene Plokhoj, Head of Product at Readdle

What people say about my management

I build creative teams to create world-class product and design. I made dozens of great hires, who delivered the project to 100% and stayed within their teams for years.

Alexander has built clear, transparent process compared to all other jobs I had. I had a space for freedom, opportunities, creativity, and rare trust on multiple projects that we finished together.

Kolom, Motion Design at Super Clear

The creative process by Alexander made him the best design manager I ever worked with and his creative direction is unique. He rapidly gets all aspects and helps you exceed your own expectations.

Dmytro, Concept Design at Super Clear

I was hired by Alexander and no one came close to his level of empathy, clarity and support. I could always rely on his judgement and make sure I was safe making bold decisions and get his support.

Anna, Design Lead at Decipad

Past and Future Dreams

Win "Exceptional Talent"
Move to UK
Buy Porsche 911
Work at unicorn
Overcome depression
Give talk to 500 people
Launch design studio
Donate £35'000
Meet 3000 founders
Invest in 10 startups
Design new OS
Design a font
Design physical object
Build £100M business
Open lab in London
Send item to space
Restore a castle
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Community for the most passionate founders worldwide
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Social Network without "follow" button
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VR experience with a philosophy/architecture twist
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Productivity tool for busy people with 40 meetings per week
Designed social productivity experiment to bring communities tighter together through common habits.
Redesigned and scaled mobile travel assistant for Ukraine, resulted in 40× revenue to compete with desktop.
Designed small concepts for the iconic tutorial website. Started to love those illustrations.
Designed product roadmap, design and brand for the consumer audio manipulation AI startup on a worldwide scale.
Designed product and brand design to challenge decades of construction industry process with Artificial Intelligence.
Lead company design and communications to explore numbers in narrative to help people with economic decisions.
Designed concepts for the future of professional and collaborative email flows.
Client to manage your personal and professional emails on the go!
Designed system power-ups for iOS, iPadOS, macOS. Worked on hundreds of features such as media players, VPN, PDF, etc.
Designed all mobile apps, keyboards, mobile extensions and hundreds of features like Assistant, Smart Suggestions etc.
Visual Design
I'm very practical designer. I enjoy tackling the details, spend an hour on a hover state, manipulate gradients at least 20 times before approving them.

This is a superpower I have to use to override all ugliness in the world.
Visit Visuals page to see more.
Commit.Club
Productivity, web3 based application.
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Welcome video
I was super embarrassed to record a video below. But I know that video creates a better emotional connection and I expect, that you will feel that I'm friendly person, that wants to meet in real life and have a coffee. Hopefully it will work 🤞
Notable Achievements
Exceptional Talent by Tech Nation
I received a Global Talent visa by proving my digital innovation. Now I build businesses in the UK.
Mentor on ADPList
I mentored more than 50 designers, helped them grow in their job and build a successful and influential career.

Experiments

Networking Course

‍Everyone should build a network that will improve their business.

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Loom Roast

Get a feedback on your startup/website/design/portfolio.

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AI-Native Software

Exploring the new ways to build software with non-deterministic outputs.

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Future of Work Research

Exploring why modern job market is missing incentives and invisibly struggling from scaling efficiently.

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I use the products I've designed every day:

08:30
Wake up in London, UK
(favourite city)
08:33
Read emails in Spark
(I helped design it)
08:35
Read news summary in FocalBrief
(I co-founded it)
08:40
Check-in with Pervasive
(I designed it)
08:45
Make coffee
09:00
Write morning pages in Grammarly
(I designed it)
10:00
Play tennis
11:30
Start Creative Process:
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Design new ideas in Figma
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Play with Kompact Font
(I designed it)
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Code in Tessl
(I designed it)
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Build a model in Decipad
(I've designed it)
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Compose music in Jammable
(I designed it)
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Check tutorials on wikiHow
(I worked with them)
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Research tech policy news in Axis
(I designed it)
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Take Leica Photos
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Record Loom Videos
19:00
Drive Porsche 911
19:15
Meet new friends
(I teach networking)
22:00
Reading from Daylight DC-1
(I've helped with design)
23:00
Play puzzles in NYT Games
(damn "Connections")
23:30
Short videos
(I have no regrets, I like them)
2015
SoundSmart
(favourite city)
2015
SoundSmart
(favourite city)
2015
1+1 Media
(favourite city)
2016
Ticket.ua Mobile App
(favourite city)
2018
Readdle
(favourite city)
2018
Spark
(I helped design it)
2019
Documents & PDF Expert
(I helped design it)
2019
Scanner Pro
(I helped design it)
2020
Grammarly
(I helped design it)
2020
Grammarly Mobile Keyboard
(I helped design it)
2020
Grammarly Mobile Editor
(I helped design it)
2020
Grammarly Mobile Growth
(I helped design it)
2020
Grammarly Safari Extension
(WWDC)
2022
Decipad
(Head of Design)
2023
Xian24
2024
Axis
2023
Jammable
2024
Pervasive
2024
ComplexChaos
2024
Context
2024
Tessl.ai
2024
Laminar
2023
ScienceSays
2024
FamilyTime
2024
SonicSpec
2024
Daylight Computer
2024
Bleachers
2024
Bullitt
2024
VCo2 Media
2024
Somite
2024
QuickCapture
2024
Personal Bingo
2024
FocalBrief
2024
FounderClass
2024
Fitz
2024
Networking 24'
2024
Gromus

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