Roman Shamin

Background

About Roman Shamin

I love to build. To make all kinds of things happen: companies, teams, tools. As an entrepreneur, I founded two startups (one of them I successfully sold) and joined two others as a partner. As a design director, I enabled product design as a new kind of service for two businesses. Hiring, growing, and mentoring teams of designers have been part of my regular job for the past decade. I’m particularly proud that in Evil Martians we’ve achieved the kind of culture where the user experience designers bring value beyond design. My designers and I get involved early on in the pre-sale process. We closely work with engineers to guarantee our design meets technical restrictions. And of course, during the project, the designer is always proactive: setting goals with the client and ensuring the features supply by lead engineers. Finally, as a product designer who enjoys coding, I’m using this superpower to create tools. Over the years, I’ve developed all kind of tools: web and mobile apps, about a dozen plugins for Figma, Sketch, and Adobe apps. Including pretty raucous Size Marks for Adobe Photoshop (1.5K stars on GitHub) and Color Name for Figma (4.5K installs). Also, OKLCH Color Picker, Evil Icons (2nd Product of the Day on ProductHunt), and Recipe Scaler. Once I discovered it’s a pain to work with fonts made for print on web and mobile, I made Martian Grotesk and Martian Mono—two modern variable font families, carefully optimized for use on screens.