My name is Lesia Shumanskaya, and I'm a curious, detail-obsessed Product Designer – the kind who notices the thing everyone else missed and can't let it go.
I've spent 4 years at Pinterest on Design Innovations – the team that keeps Pinterest Pinteresty. Half the job – deciding what Pinterest should feel like five years from now. Other half – being the expert other teams call when something feels off. In between – I built the motion foundation from scratch and shipped a 3-tier celebration system. Confetti counts as serious work – patent pending.
Before that, at VOCHI (AI video editing app) I shipped a video effect that became #1 on iOS by saves.
I'm not afraid of code – a bit of a nerd about it, actually. I vibe-code, follow implementation, and stay close to engineers because that's where assumptions break. I got deep into motion systems because they were technically hard: spring functions, transition logic, why the system is built the way it is. The kind of understanding that doesn't fit in a handoff doc.
Systems first, craft always.
Currently: Product Designer @ Pinterest 📌
After hours: drawing, collage, animation, shooting on film and singing. I make things for the joy of it. Mountains whenever possible
My name is Lesia Shumanskaya, and I'm a curious, detail-obsessed Product Designer – the kind who notices the thing everyone else missed and can't let it go.
I've spent 4 years at Pinterest on Design Innovations – the team that keeps Pinterest Pinteresty. Half the job – deciding what Pinterest should feel like five years from now. Other half – being the expert other teams call when something feels off. In between – I built the motion foundation from scratch and shipped a 3-tier celebration system. Confetti counts as serious work – patent pending.
Before that, at VOCHI (AI video editing app) I shipped a video effect that became #1 on iOS by saves.
I'm not afraid of code – a bit of a nerd about it, actually. I vibe-code, follow implementation, and stay close to engineers because that's where assumptions break. I got deep into motion systems because they were technically hard: spring functions, transition logic, why the system is built the way it is. The kind of understanding that doesn't fit in a handoff doc.
Systems first, craft always.
Currently: Product Designer @ Pinterest 📌
After hours: drawing, collage, animation, shooting on film and singing. I make things for the joy of it. Mountains whenever possible
My name is Lesia Shumanskaya, and I'm a curious, detail-obsessed Product Designer – the kind who notices the thing everyone else missed and can't let it go.
I've spent 4 years at Pinterest on Design Innovations – the team that keeps Pinterest Pinteresty. Half the job – deciding what Pinterest should feel like five years from now. Other half – being the expert other teams call when something feels off. In between – I built the motion foundation from scratch and shipped a 3-tier celebration system. Confetti counts as serious work – patent pending.
Before that, at VOCHI (AI video editing app) I shipped a video effect that became #1 on iOS by saves.
I'm not afraid of code – a bit of a nerd about it, actually. I vibe-code, follow implementation, and stay close to engineers because that's where assumptions break. I got deep into motion systems because they were technically hard: spring functions, transition logic, why the system is built the way it is. The kind of understanding that doesn't fit in a handoff doc.
Systems first, craft always.
Currently: Product Designer @ Pinterest 📌
After hours: drawing, collage, animation, shooting on film and singing. I make things for the joy of it. Mountains whenever possible
