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Hi Contra! 👋
Confession: I've been here almost a month and still haven't introduced myself. Classic designer – I'll redesign a button five times but write my own bio? Terrifying. So, hi. 🫣
I'm Nina, a web designer from Dnipro, Ukraine 🇺🇦 15 years in.
About 5 of those were fintech – senior product designer inside a bank, where every pixel had a compliance officer watching it.
Good training. Not my happy place.
My happy place is the bright, creative stuff: brand identity, landing pages, projects where I actually get to play with color and personality. So that's what I'm chasing here – founders and small teams who want their thing to look alive, not just functional.
I came to Contra to work with people, not just win bids. Radical idea, I know.
If you're building something you're excited about, come say hi 👇 I promise I'm faster to reply than I was to write this.
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Hi Nina 😌
Hello there!
The jump from fintech to brand identity is bigger than people assume not the skills, the permission. Going from 'justify every pixel' to 'make it feel alive' takes a while to unlearn. How long did it take before you stopped second-guessing color choices?
Probably I jumped from fintech (apps) to web design :) And when I realized how colors work, I stopped second-guessing color choices 😂 ....But sometimes it's happens 😂
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