Katja Butorina is a London-based product designer and researcher moving between senses, systems, and experiment. My work lives between clarity and curiosity, thinking through form, behavior, and the small details that often go unnoticed.

Disciplines don’t stay separate for me.
UX, emerging tech, frontend, art practices — they fold into a single process: an ongoing attempt to understand how things can become clearer.
This approach grew through both formal study and practice. I graduated from the International Design School, took UX courses, and kept learning on my own.

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Fig 3. Le fils de l’homme

Clarity draws me in
— especially the moment when something complex unfolds through a simple, grounded decision. Most of my work begins with questions: What is this really about? What should stay? What can go?

Attention is my main tool: looking closely, noticing patterns, staying with things long enough for their structure to reveal itself.

Fig 4. Observation

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Before screens
came materials

Working with items that have weight and texture taught me patience and the kind of listening that happens through touch.
Book design became my first conscious step into the field. The mood an object creates before you even open it. I still collect textures, fragments, and visual notes. This quiet research feeds everything else I do.

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UX shifted the scale —
from objects to systems
For the last ten years, I’ve worked on complex products, mostly in security and data-heavy environments. Interfaces behave like systems: flows, states, dependencies. My job is to make sense of them — reveal what’s hidden, reduce friction, help people move through complexity without feeling lost. Learning frontend became a natural extension of this work, giving me another way to understand how ideas translate into interactive form.

Fig 5. Secure AI Modular Platform

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At some point, I wanted
to move beyond screens
Studying at the NewMedia Lab opened the door to neural interfaces, photogrammetry, field recordings — ways to explore how we sense distance, scale, and volume. These projects focused on how technology can step aside, dissolve into the environment, or become an extension of the body. It reminds me that design is not only problem-solving but discovery.

2006
Study at Polytechnical University

2013
Study at International Design School

2016
Work at Netwrix,
IT Security

2018
Study at NewStage Media Lab

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2020
Join Science Fest
and Art Labs

2022...
Move to the UK

Skills

Key Competencies
User Iterface Design
User Experience Design
Design Thinking
Ux Research
Wireframing
Design System
Prototyping
Frontend development

Tools
Figma
FigJam
Adobe Suite
Miro
UserTesting
Pendo
Replit

FrontendHTML
CSS
JavaScript
Bootstrap
jQuery
Tailwind
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