/* The app pins html/body to the viewport with overflow hidden because the chat thread is the only scroller. With the shell gone this text IS the page, so it needs the page scroller back. !important because the mobile start-screen scroll lock is written as html:has(.assistant-console:…), which outranks a plain html/body selector — and it still matches, since the shell is only display:none, not removed. */ html, body { height: auto; min-height: 100%; overflow-x: hidden !important; overflow-y: auto !important; } .site-shell { display: none; } .no-js { box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 100vh; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; gap: 20px; max-width: 640px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 48px 24px; color: var(--text-primary); } .no-js-name { margin: 0; font-size: clamp(28px, 3.6vw, 42px); line-height: 1.08; font-weight: 620; letter-spacing: 0; } .no-js-role { margin: 0; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.04em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--text-muted); } .no-js-summary { margin: 0; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.45; color: var(--text-secondary); } .no-js-links { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; } .no-js-links a { display: inline-block; padding: 8px 14px; border: 1px solid var(--glass-border); border-radius: 999px; background: var(--glass-fill); color: var(--text-primary); font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; }

Lead Product Designer · 7+ years

Tamirlan Askar

Designing digital products since 2019 — fintech, e-commerce, gaming and AI. At Yandex, product design for Search (~150M MAU) and Alice, plus the design-system token foundation and the design-to-code stream behind them. Previously led design for 5 product lines (10M+ users) and a team of 8 at Beeline Kazakhstan.

The case studies below open as plain pages; the interactive portfolio needs JavaScript.

Taking Alice's first model picker from mid-project to launch · Yandex · Alice AI chat · 2026
Killing the handoff: prototypes engineers finish, not rebuild · Yandex · Search & AI · 2025–26
Growing Search's AI answer: a projected +2.4% to its revenue, more education queries answered · Yandex · Search AI answer · 2025–26
Tournaments: from a daily prize to a reason to play · Beeline · My Beeline Games · 2022
From 20 years of hardcoded hex to one-switch theming · Yandex · Search & Alice · 2025–26

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Lead Product Designer · 7+ years