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Denis Bakulin

Product & UI Designer: Fintech, SaaS, AI, Landings

Followed by Kraig M, Deniz U, and Kabir A

Larnaca, Cyprus

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Larnaca, Cyprus

Second site from the same stack — and the reason they look related is that one lives inside the other. The first one is a compliance product. EZ is the infrastructure it sits in. That's a specific design problem. The platform can't look like a competitor to its own component, and it can't look like a louder version of it either. EZ took the wider frame — four modular layers, three entry points, regulators in the trust section — while the component kept the close-up. Same toolkit both times: Figma, a Unicorn Studio shader in the hero, the reel in Jitter. Designed with my wife, who owned the product and the content side.

Mirage is a template, and that flips the usual problem. A client site is designed around known content: their headline, their logos, their numbers. A template has to survive content I'll never see. Someone else's headline runs two lines instead of one, their logo lockups arrive in six different aspect ratios, their stats aren't three neat figures. So every section is built to hold at the worst plausible fill, not the best one. The name did the art direction: a dune gradient that burns off into darkness as you scroll. Designed in Figma, reel cut in Jitter, should be released at Framer.

A site for a festival about error, distortion and failure – which then has to work flawlessly, because artists are applying to a deadline and need to read the dates. That's the whole design problem. Glitch is a language about breaking legibility; an open call is a page that cannot afford to break it. So the noise lives in the layers that carry no information – the shader field behind everything, the type on entry, the transitions – and every date, venue and deadline sits on a clean plane and stays put. Zagreb, four days, exhibitions at the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla and Gallery Siva. Built for our collective, so the only client was us. Designed in Figma, background shader in Unicorn Studio, reel cut in Jitter.

Landing page for compliance platform for fintechs and regulated businesses — KYC/KYB onboarding, transaction monitoring, risk scoring, regulator access. The site was designed together with my wife: she owned the product side and the content, I focused on the UI. The hero background is a live shader built in Unicorn Studio, the page itself was designed in Figma, and the scroll reel was animated in Jitter. Eight product modules and two audiences on one page — the motion had to carry the pacing without competing with the content.