A tribute to a friend

Oleh Pavliv designer · creator · friend

Some people make things work. Some make things beautiful. Oleh does both — in pixels, in games, on mountain trails, and in friendship.

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#The craftsman

Oleh is a senior product designer with nearly a decade of shaping interfaces that people actually enjoy using. Guided by empathy and sharpened by data, he has a rare talent: taking something tangled and making it feel obvious.

At Doorstead he led product design for property management — the kind of unglamorous, high-stakes domain where great design quietly changes everything. Conversion rates more than doubled under his watch. That's not luck; that's craft.

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Product design

Wireframes to high-fidelity, design systems, research, workshops — the full arc of making software humane.

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Game maker

Two years of independent game design — Unity, C#, Blender. Building worlds, not just screens.

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Artist at heart

Drawing, 3D, visual storytelling. The hand behind the tool always shows.

"Guided by empathy and data — advocating for people while making things that simply work."

#The journey

2015 — 2019

Freelance beginnings

30+ projects — websites, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, branding for startups. The years where range is built.

2019 — 2020

Chaos Byte & Northell

Complex SaaS products, UX research, data-migration platforms — learning to design for depth.

2020 — 2022

Independent game design

Following the passion: game design and UI/UX projects on his own terms.

2022 — 2025

Senior Product Designer, Doorstead

Leading UI/UX for property management. Sign-to-live rates up from 25% to 65%. Design systems, prototypes, impact.

Today

Budapest, Hungary

Still designing, still drawing, still climbing hills — and still the same generous friend.

#Beyond the screen

Ask Oleh about frame rates or footpaths and you'll get the same spark. He games and builds games. He hikes and actually looks at the nature around him. He draws because hands need to make things.

🎮 Gaming & game dev 🥾 Hiking & nature ✍️ Drawing 🇺🇦 Ukrainian, fluent in four worlds 🧊 Blender & Spline 3D ☕ Budapest local

#The friend

This site exists for one simple reason: some friendships deserve a monument, even a small one made of pixels. Oleh — for the ideas bounced back and forth, the honest feedback, the shared trails and screens: thank you.

Here's to the next decade of making things worth using, worlds worth playing, and paths worth walking.