// 01 - Hero

Designing the interfaces - of the future, today.

9+ years shaping product design across fintech, cybersecurity, and AI-driven platforms - crafting scalable, intuitive, and visually refined experiences that turn complex business challenges into seamless journeys across mobile, SaaS, and modern web. A deliberate fusion of UX thinking, aesthetic precision, and AI-led product innovation.

// By the numbers
Since 2017
9+
Years
90+
Projects
4
Domains
// Status
Online
Available for Work
Baku, AZ
Figma✦ FigJam✦ Framer✦ Claude✦ Jira✦ Notion✦ Slack✦ Photoshop✦ Illustrator✦ AI-assisted UX✦
// 02 - About

Aliabbas Abbasov is a Senior Product Designer at the Digital Finance Center of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Finance, with 9+ years across fintech, cybersecurity and AI.

Design is not just visual aesthetics to me - it is the elegant solution to complex problems. By merging the cold logic of technology with human emotion, I create digital experiences that are not just seen, but felt.

I approach every project not just as a technical task, but as a strategic step to bring your unique story to life in the digital world. My goal is to build the interfaces of the future today - making the digital world more intuitive for everyone.

Craft

Product design end-to-end: research → IA → interaction → UI → handoff. I own outcomes, not artifacts.

Leadership

Built and mentored design teams, set standards, shortened design-to-development loops.

Domains

Fintech payment rails, enterprise security, AI products, regulated and high-trust workflows.

// 03 - Projects

Some recent works.

Twelve selected clients across AI, security, fintech, government and brand. Each one a study in reducing complexity without losing character.

// 04 - Experience

Ten years, four chapters.

From fintech payment rails to enterprise security, AI and public-sector digital finance - each chapter with its metric, its constraint, its lesson.

Sep 2026 - Present

Digital Finance Center · Ministry of Finance of Azerbaijan

Senior Product Designer
Baku · Public-sector digital finance

Product design for the state's digital finance platforms - services used by government institutions and citizens, where clarity, trust and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable.

Focus
  • 01 Product design for public-sector financial services
  • 02 Design-system alignment across state digital platforms
  • 03 Accessibility (WCAG AA) and regulation-aware interaction patterns
Jun 2024 - Jun 2026

MegaSec LLC

Art Director · Senior UX/UI Designer - Digital Products
Baku · Enterprise security & AI

Led UX and interface design for enterprise security and AI-based products. Redesigned key flows, established a design-system foundation, and balanced brand with accessibility.

Key outcomes & impact
  • 01 Defined a cross-product design system covering 40+ core UI primitives - unified three enterprise security products under one visual and interaction language.
  • 02 Redesigned the analyst incident-response flow and surfaced AI-model outputs in human-readable explainability views for non-technical stakeholders.
  • 03 Introduced a weekly usability-testing cadence and pre-handoff QA - eliminated most late-cycle interface rework.
  • 04 Mentored two designers and partnered directly with engineering on Figma-to-code parity, accessibility (WCAG AA) and motion specs.
25%
faster task completion
20%
fewer iteration cycles
30%
cross-product consistency
Mar 2021 - Jul 2024

Bestcomp Group

UX/UI Design Team Lead
Baku · Multi-client web & mobile

Led a multidisciplinary UX/UI team shipping web and mobile products for multiple client engagements. Rebuilt user flows, introduced shared design standards, mentored juniors into senior contributors.

Key outcomes & impact
  • 01 Led a 4-person UX/UI team across 15+ web and mobile engagements in fintech, telecom and corporate - run in parallel.
  • 02 Established a shared component library and a Figma branching workflow - shortened design-to-development handoff.
  • 03 Owned discovery → research → IA → UI → handoff for flagship client products; instituted weekly critique and design reviews.
  • 04 Coached two juniors into mid/senior roles and introduced design-ops rituals - kickoffs, reviews, retros.
35%
higher user satisfaction
30%
fewer usability revisions
25%
better handoff efficiency
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021

GoldenPay OJSC - Hesab.az

Senior UX/UI Designer - Fintech
Baku · Payments & compliance

Led UX and interface design for secure fintech payment platforms with high-volume transactional use cases. Balanced regulatory and data-security requirements with trust and clarity.

Key outcomes & impact
  • 01 Redesigned Hesab.az end-to-end across web and mobile - checkout, top-up, scheduled payments and merchant flows.
  • 02 Mapped and simplified KYC, AML and 3-D Secure flows - balanced regulatory friction with conversion-friendly patterns.
  • 03 Built a unified payment design library adopted across consumer and merchant products.
  • 04 Set the baseline accessibility (WCAG AA) for high-trust financial flows; reduced payment-confusion support tickets.
35%
txn completion growth
30%
less user confusion
20%
usability in payment flows
// 05 - Skills

The toolkit.

Three deliberate layers - from research and strategy down to pixels, shipped with engineering.

01 - Design & Research
  • UX Strategy
  • User Research
  • Usability Testing
  • Information Architecture
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • UI Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
02 - AI & emerging
New
  • AI-assisted UX Workflows
  • AI-supported User Research
03 - Tools
  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Framer
  • Claude
  • Jira
  • Notion
  • Slack
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
// 06 - Credentials

Always
learning.

Selected coursework, conferences and credentials - IxDF, Brick Institute, and two U.S. universities. Plus formal education.

Education
Baku State University
B.A. International Relations
2005 - 2009
Baku Design Academy
Advanced UX/UI Design · with Technest scholarship
2022 - 2023
Code Academy
Graphic & Web Design
2017 - 2018
Certifications & Courses
11
  • Apr 2026
    Alive'26 - International Design Conference
    Brick Institute
  • Oct 2025
    Mobile UX Strategy
    IxDF
  • Jun 2025
    Interaction Design for Usability
    IxDF
  • May 2025
    Alive'25 - International Design Conference
    Brick Institute
  • Feb 2025
    AI for Designers focus
    IxDF
  • May 2023
    Advanced UX/UI Design
    BDA · Technest
  • Jun 2021
    UX & Accessible Design
    Future Learn
  • Jan 2021
    User Research & Design
    U. of Minnesota
  • Jan 2021
    UX Principles & Processes
    U. of Michigan
  • Dec 2020
    Introduction to UI Design
    U. of Michigan
  • Mar 2020
    UX Design
    Userspots
// 07 - Testimonials

Words from the people I've shipped with.

Ten people I've built and shipped with - founders, product leads, teammates - from six countries: Baku, Berlin, London, Stockholm and Reykjavik.

01 / 10 AZ
Aliabbas turns business constraints into opportunity. The flow changes he led on our payments platform moved conversion the very next quarter - a rare instinct.
Leyla Hüseynova
Product Manager · Veritas Pay
Verified 2020 · Baku
// 08 - Contact

Got a project?
Let's turn your idea into a perfect product.

Have a product, a brand or an idea worth building well? Share a brief - I'll come back with an honest read within 48 hours.

Address
Baku, Azerbaijan · Istanbul
Channels
Accepting
Fintech · Security · AI Landing Pages & Websites Mobile App Design