Design systems engineer · Designer who codes · AI-native
Hi, I’m Victor I build design systems that work
- 16 years designing apps and products
- 2 design systems
- 217 components
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Get in touch
victoralexandru.ilioiu@gmail.com
Brașov, Romania —
Available for work
Senior product design and design systems roles, or contract work. Remote, EU or US-East hours.
01 — Case study
B2B Design System
Six years in production across roughly fifty client deployments, without a rewrite. Built essentially solo, from a business case I had to make first.
~50 client deployments
02 — Case study
Indicator Card Redesign
Indicators are one of the two pillars this product stands on, and there are 204 ways to configure and display one. Two things were wrong: nothing on the card read first, so nobody could see where they stood at a glance; and the layout gave a main indicator no more weight than a secondary one — on the dashboard and in the configuration screens alike.
03 — Case study
Prize Challenge Redesign
Sales reps competed for real money, and the screen that told them how they were doing was the most complained-about page in the product. Every type of prize had been drawn its own way, the numbers never said what they counted, and people who were leading their ranking had their points locked by conditions nobody had explained.
10+ mini-challenges summed by one prize
04 — Case study
Retiring shadows
The design system ran on an old, heavily customised Material, and it had inherited Material's idea that depth means elevation. Every surface in a dense B2B dashboard was separated from every other by a drop shadow. This is the epic that replaced all of it with tonal structure, on a live product, without changing what a single screen does.
38 stories closed, component by component
05 — Case study
Branded neutrals, without breaking contrast
Every client of a white-label product picks a brand colour. This is what happened when I tried to make the greys carry it too, and the instrument I ended up building to prove it was safe.
322 client theme colours checked
06 — Case study
A design system that checks itself
A self-initiated concept. Seventy-five components in two themes, with contrast, vocabulary and bundle size enforced by the build. I directed it, Claude Code wrote the code, and it took six weeks.
148 contrast pairs the build refuses to fail
What I bring
- Design systems at production scale
- A designer who reads and reviews the code
- An AI-native workflow, used on real products
Most candidates show one of these. The work above shows all three.