Tokyo-based digital product designer with a background in graphic design, dedicated to leading cross-cultural design teams.

I started as a product designer in an e-commerce platform for online stores and evolved into a team leader in the UX department at Veeam. Currently, I am designing the Android App for JetBrains Space ✨

Clay sculpting and singing are big parts of my life, and that’s why you can see them on this website.

Education:
Master of Arts ・ British Higher School of Art & Design [Design and Visual] Communications・Google [The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing]・Cannes Lions [Storytelling]・Smashing Magazine [Design Management Masterclass]

Resident:
The Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, 2023

Awards:
Cannes Lions shortlist・Epica Awards 2019 Silver・Art Directors Club Russia Bonze・Art Directors Club Europe shortlist・Commarts shortlist・Awwwards Nominee・Webby Award Honoree

JetBrains AI Platform. Provides text editing, summarization, chat functionality, and code review suggestions.

JetBrains Space Apps. The chat-centric mobile app. Complete software development platform to solve everyday developers' tasks on the go. Android / iOS

JetBrains Museum of Future LMS.
Learning management system that helps youngsters to study coding and engineering.

Veeam ProPartner.
Partner Service for the direct access to tools and resources that help partners drive business growth.

Veeam My Account. A service to manage product licenses, buy new products and get info about new product features.

Veeam ServiceNow. A portal for employees to open any administrative tickets.

veeam.com design system. Components, grids, layouts, typography and colors.

Veeam Careers. Career portal re-design to enable worldwide hiring.

The worst UX ever. A viral website with a challenging call to action and the worst user interface ever.

For work inquiries and collaboration ideas, please use hi@soniakochina.com

This website was developed with the help of Yan Te; Maintained as an open-source project on GitHub; Generated with Contentful, Gatsby.js, Netlify; Set in Neue Haas Grotesk.