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About / Hristo Butsev

New York City / Since 2018

Direction is a design material.

I work where business rules, user needs and technical constraints need to become one product people can actually use.

Point of view / 01

Law trained.
Design led.
Product focused.

I lead design at neoshare AG and help teams turn dense workflows into products that are legible, useful and ready to ship.

Working principles / 02

  1. 01Specifics beat generalities

    A real workflow with real data beats a moodboard.

  2. 02Honesty before excitement

    The first version needs to reveal the right problem.

  3. 03Patterns earn their keep

    A component exists only when it makes the product clearer.

  4. 04Motion explains change

    Animation is useful when it tells the user what happened.

Selected experience / 03

Close to the work.
Close to engineering.

  • CurrentHead of Design

    neoshare AG · AI Products

  • ProductSenior design roles

    Invest.com · ThinkMarkets · CarHub

  • IndependentProduct direction

    Fintech · AI · operational software

Profile / 04

Role
Head of Design at neoshare AG · AI Products
Base
New York City
Languages
English · Bulgarian · Chinese
Tools
Figma · Framer · Linear · TypeScript

Recognition / 05

2011—2021

  • 2011National Graphic Design Awards1st
  • 2011Bulgarian Rose2nd
  • 2012National Youth Competition, Ecology1st
  • 2012Sofronii Vrachanski, Education & Science1st
  • 2016Saatchi Circle2nd
  • 2020PaySafe Mobile Hackathon3rd
  • 2020Oxford Hackathon
  • 2021Open Banking Hackathon
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