Valentine Zubkov

Valentine Zubkov

Design Engineer | 0→1 Products
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Design Engineer building high-craft apps for the App Store and web. Spent 10+ years in UX/UI and product design across global startups before transitioning deeply into engineering to build the products myself. I ship products end-to-end: from UX and interaction design to scalable SwiftUI and React architecture. Focused on clean UX, design systems in code, and products that feel fast, intentional, and easy to use.

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tinypadp/tinypad•

6d ago

How do you usually get back to a website you've visited before?

One thing I discovered while building tinypad is that people seem to have completely different mental models for navigating the web.

When some rely almost entirely on bookmarks, others prefer to search Google every time and follow the autocomplete suggestion. Many people keep dozens (or hundreds) of tabs open, and some just use browser history.

tinypadp/tinypad•

6d ago

Why have bookmarks become an afterthought in modern browsers?

Some time ago I decided to finally answer a question that had been bothering me for years:

Why do modern browsers always overlook bookmark management?

I always had a feeling that I think about web bookmarks differently from how most people do, and definitely differently from how browser makers seem to think about them.

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