Danny Udobnyi

Danny Udobnyi

Product Designer & Design Engineer

Helsinki, Finland

2025 — Now

Staff Product Designer & Design Engineer at Open Builders

Led design for flagship products including DOGS and Sticker Store. Prototyped AI concepts and independently took AI products from idea through design, development, and launch.

2022 — 2025

Senior Product Designer at Mapbox

Designed in-car navigation, built prototypes and demos for prospective clients, and helped shape MapGPT, Mapbox’s first in-car AI assistant.

Redesigned the map style, organized icon libraries, spearheaded the first 100 3D landmarks for Mapbox Standard, and improved Studio’s editing workflows.

2018 — 2021

Senior Product Designer at Yandex Maps

UGC, personal account and cartography systems. Automated map-overlay libraries and designed internal tools for imagery, panoramas and data collection.

2016 — 2017

UX/UI Designer at AIGRIND

Redesigned onboarding across several games to improve player activation and retention.

2014 — 2015

Senior UI Designer at KODE

Mobile apps and complex client services; advanced to Senior and mentored junior designers.

2013 — 2014

Art Director & Designer at Re:creation Media Group

Led the design, illustration and production of a series of city guidebooks.

2013

Designer & Illustrator at Pictorica

Print publications, posters, illustrations and brochures.

2010 — 2013

Designer & Illustrator at Zarya Cinema

Sole lead designer for posters, publications, large-format graphics, web banners and illustration.

2012 — 2013

Poster Illustrator & Layout Designer at BB NCCA

Designed posters, booklets and illustrations for contemporary-art exhibitions.

Side Projects

2026

Stray Clash

A Telegram PvP card game I designed and built with AI-assisted development.

2021

HORNS

An animated short that won at the Hilltop Film Festival.

Education

2022

GOBELINS Paris — Animation

Animation course focused on timing and visual storytelling, with principles that translate to interface motion.