Daria Tsukali
Product Designer · UX/UI
I’ve been designing interfaces since 2019 and working in product design since 2023. I take projects from user interviews and hypotheses all the way to final designs and a design system. Open to roles in any industry. I work remotely from Bishkek, English B2.
Project staffing and finance
NDA- Role
- Product Designer
- Team
- Head of Product and the finance team, who were also the internal clients
- Format
- Full-time, Quantum One
- Date
- 2026
- Stack
Result
The platform is live, and the team of about 15 people moved off Excel into a single system
Context
Quantum One does AI consulting and development for industrial companies in the UAE and puts together a team of its own specialists for each client project. Who was working on which project and what each team cost were tracked by hand in Excel. To find out whether someone was available and how much a project cost, people had to cross-check several spreadsheets, so the company decided to build an internal system where all of this is visible in one place. The head of product and the finance team brought the requirements, and I turned them into the interface.
What I did
The main challenge was that people, projects and money in the system are all connected. One employee is needed on several projects at once, and any change to a team changes the project’s cost. So I was designing not so much screens as the rules for how the system behaves in each of these cases.
In the main scenario, a manager describes the roles on a new project, the system finds available people with the right skills, and the team’s cost is recalculated right away, so the finance team no longer has to reconcile anything by hand. They review project expenses in the same system and see what was approved, what was rejected and why.
Most of the time went into situations where a project doesn’t go to plan.
- No one is available for a role. The manager sends a request to HR right from the project, and the person who’s found joins the team automatically.
- A project is put on hold. Its team is freed up for other work, and when the project resumes, the system brings back those who are still available and shows who will need to be replaced.
- Two people edit a project at the same time. The system stops the action of whoever saves second and loads the latest data, so no one makes decisions based on an outdated version.
Under NDAA new project: people are matched to roles by availability and skills, and the project’s finances are recalculated right away
Team workload by role
Expense review: what was approved, what was rejected and why
Client surveys for each project stage