Alex Antonov is a designer at Raycast and dog walker for Olly based in Sofia. Previously at Nansen Bakken & Bæck  Instrument Next DC & Apple.

For 18 months, I lead Nansen's design team, as well as the redesign of their powerful onchain analytics platform. We rebuilt the product from the ground up to make it 10x faster and launched the first beta of Nansen 2 in six months. Along the way, we radically simplified the app navigation, introduced a new Command Center that lets you find anything onchain in lightning speed, and shipped AI-powered features like Signals and Smart Segments to help onchain investors in their research. In collaboration with DesignStudio, we also unveiled a refreshed brand identity.

Part of the Instrument team working on reimagining Purple.com and creating a flexible kit of components to support their internal team's future efforts. The project involved digital brand work, prototyping, designing e-commerce shopping flows and design system work.

In 2021, I was part of the Instrument team that partnered with Thorn to create the Thorn for Parents resource hub. The role fo the platform is to equip caregivers with the tools they need to have meaningful and engaging conversations with their kids about difficult topics related to device usage and online behavior. We created a rich educational experience centered around key topics and conversation scripts, building a flexible component-based system along the way.

In 2021, I worked on the digital presence of Parsley Health, a company that integrates technology, nutrition, wellness and prevention into cutting-edge primary care. As part of the Instrument team, I helped establish a design language and a flexible component-based system that emulates Parsley Health's holistic approach to healthcare.

I worked with the Instrument team for 6 months to help design the Facebook for Business experience, allowing companies and individuals around the world to set and track goals. I took part in designing a flexible design system of components for marketing pages, an engaging onboarding flow and a dashboard for members.

Over the course of 3 months, I worked with the Instrument team on the redesign of Instagram’s company website. I contributed with visual concept explorations, motion studies and design of individual modules and pages.

In 2015, I designed and helped launch Quotes Magazine along with a small team at NEXT-DC. Quotes is a collection of conversations with people from different fields of work and diverse lifestyles. Its goal is to find opinions and insights about the ever-changing world and present inspiring professional or personal stories. My role was to design the digital presense of the magazine and to create a simplistic system to support the authoring of future articles. Featured as Site of the Day on Typewolf, SiteInspire, French Design Index and other design galleries.