Work
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Figma — Contributor
Variables
Part of the core team that shipped Variables — the feature that finally let design tokens live inside Figma. Worked mostly on the interaction model and the way values cascade through nested components. It took a long time. Worth it.
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Community — Co-organizer
Tbilisi Design Community
Monthly meetups, workshops, and a lot of Telegram messages. Started with a dozen people who kept running into each other at the same coffee shops. Now around 180 members — Georgian designers, Russian emigrés, and a surprising number of Ukrainians and Belarusians. Good mix.
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Translation — Editor & translator
Design Writing in Russian & Georgian
I translate essays and longform design writing — mostly from English into Russian, sometimes Georgian with a co-translator. The goal is to make the good stuff accessible to people who don't read English fluently. So far: Bret Victor, Molly Mielke, a few pieces from The New Inquiry.