Andrey Gurov

About · Andrey Gurov

I design products end-to-end.

AI-native product designer in the SF Bay Area. Remote-first. I turn ambiguous business problems into production-ready systems — research, IA, interaction, visual, motion, and the workflows that make them ship.

I started out running an environmental-equipment company in Kazan, Russia, and learned web and design the practical way — building the sites my own business needed instead of hiring it out.

In late 2008 I moved to California for the work, took classes at Diablo Valley College in programming, design, and photography, and turned that practical interest into a profession as a designer at Bond Manufacturing.

Since then I’ve worked across product design, design systems, e-commerce, enterprise and internal tools, SEO and content architecture, and AI-assisted workflows — increasingly at the seam where product, business, and implementation meet.

What I do

  • Product / UX / CX designer working end-to-end — research → IA → interaction → visual → motion
  • Build production-ready systems and workflows, not isolated screens
  • Comfortable as the only designer or the principal in a larger system
  • AI-native: research synthesis, prompt/agent QA loops, and generative pipelines as part of the craft

Tooling

  • Figma, FigJam, Variables
  • React / Next.js for prototypes that behave like the real thing
  • GSAP, Motion, React Three Fiber for interaction and 3D studies
  • Python for research, scraping, and data work
  • Claude / GPT / Perplexity for research synthesis and writing
  • WordPress (headless) for the publishing side

Off the clock

  • 56 countries visited
  • First US job: sous chef in a San Francisco restaurant
  • Hundreds of informal hours mentoring early-career designers
  • Russian: native · English: professional working proficiency