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Boris
Klaydman

Product design leader. I ship working software. Fifteen years of enterprise B2B SaaS at Apple, IBM, Salesforce and Amazon, now AI-native.

CloudKitchens · 2022

An in-house analytics studio that cut churn 8%

8%reduction in customer churn

CloudKitchens · 2023

One dashboard framework instead of fifty dashboards

1framework replacing one-off dashboard designs

Apple · 2019 to 2021

The device guide behind $1B+ in upgrade revenue

$1B+upgrade and platform-switch revenue

Apple · 2019 to 2021

Learning that scales across Apple retail and channel

30%higher training test scores

Apple + IBM Partnership · 2015 to 2019

Halved diagnostic time for field technicians with AI and AR

50%reduction in diagnostic time

How I work

The method behind the work, in four moves. Full method

01/

Interrogate the problem first

Before any pixels, I pressure test the brief with the model: edge cases, failure states, who the user really is. The cheapest place to be wrong.

02/

Build the flow, not the frame

Working screens in code from the start, one flow at a time. If it can't be clicked end to end without narration, it isn't done.

03/

Refine by hand

The tools get it to eighty percent. Spacing, motion, copy and hierarchy are still mine. That gap is the job.

04/

Keep the system honest

Every new pattern gets written back into the project's design conventions, so the next build session inherits it instead of drifting.

Writing

A weekly series on designing by building. All writing