Open to contracts & full-time
Good design isn’t invented. It emerges when every contradiction is resolved.
Every problem is a landscape of tensions: fast against thorough, simple against powerful. Compromise settles in the first valley. I keep going to the lowest point, where every tension resolves and the answer looks obvious. I’m Kamran Maximoff, a design engineer in Toronto, and for 7+ years I’ve worked this way with Geotab, CarbonGraph, Kuzu and others.
An energy landscape of design tensions. Candidate solutions roll downhill; three settle in shallow valleys marked compromise. One keeps going, hops out of its valley and reaches the lowest point, marked resolved.
Selected teams
GeotabFordCarbonGraphKuzuSwishSolarRemontLinkenol01Geotab · 2023
+25%
feature adoption after redesigning the Safety Center for 50,000+ fleet customers
02CarbonGraph · 2021
6months
from pen-and-paper sketches to a carbon-accounting MVP in production
03SwishSolar · 2025
4weeks
to take a nanotech startup’s brand from zero to launch-ready
04Per their CEO
4years
on, my original designs still form the basis of CarbonGraph’s product
01/Selected work
Case studies in AI, automotive and climate.
10 projects, 2021–2025.
Geotab studies are password protected.
Geotab AI2024Senior Product Designer
Designing a system-wide AI insights architecture for an enterprise fleet platform
More work
5 projects
02/Approach
One person from research to production. Nothing lost in the handoff.
Most products lose something between the design file and the codebase. I remove that gap. The person who interviews your users also designs the flows, builds the component library and ships the frontend, so what you approve is what goes live.
- 01
Understand
Stakeholder sessions, user research and competitive analysis to find the problem worth solving.
- Research synthesis
- Jobs-to-be-done
- Success metrics
- 02
Design
Information architecture, flows and high-fidelity UI, prototyped and tested with real users.
- IA & user flows
- Interactive prototypes
- Usability testing
- 03
Systematize
Tokens and components that make the next hundred screens faster than the first ten.
- Design tokens
- Component library
- Documentation
- 04
Build
Production frontend in React, Next.js and TypeScript, accessible to WCAG 2.2 and fast by default.
- React · Next.js
- Accessibility
- Performance
Toolkit
- Figma Design
- React UI
- Next.js Web
- TypeScript Lang
- SwiftUI iOS
- Rust Lang
- D3 Data
- Three.js 3D
- Blender 3D
- LLM APIs AI
What clients say
03/Kind words
“4 years later, Kamran’s initial designs still form the basis of our UI/UX.”
Kamran joined the CarbonGraph team at the earliest stage of product development, when our current product was nothing but a series of forms the user had to click through. Our needs were highly unusual - representing complex supply chains and associated graph algorithms in an intuitive visual format. Kamran took our ideas from pen and paper sketches to a functional prototype in a matter of weeks, and worked directly with our devs to get a new version into production. 4 years later, Kamran’s initial designs still form the basis of our UI/UX and we are constantly getting compliments on our unique, compelling, and powerful user experience.
Samuel AndersonCEO, CarbonGraphKuzu
“The new logo was a big step up from where we were before… Most importantly, it’s beautiful.”
Ardan AracCPO, KuzuRead the full testimonial
Kamran re-designed our logo, brand colors and web site at Kuzu Inc. The community and our investors have responded very positively to our new logo and web site. The new logo was a big step up from where we were before - it has a unique design that stands out among competitor’s logos. It’s thoughtfully designed based on what our company does and how we are trying to differentiate ourselves. Most importantly, it’s beautiful. Kamran also made our web site modern and elegant. Kamran works fast and gets things done efficiently. He is also receptive to feedback and iterates with us when needed. I strongly recommend Kamran for branding, logo design and web site design.
SwishSolar
“We’ve received so many compliments on the design.”
Miswar SyedFounder, SwishSolarRead the full testimonial
Working with Maximoff Studio was an excellent experience. They designed our logo, branding, and website with creativity, professionalism, and great attention to detail. They took our ideas and turned them into a visual identity that truly reflects our company. We’ve received so many compliments on the design, and I’d highly recommend them to anyone looking for high-quality design work.
04/About
Artist, Scientist, Design Engineer.
The long version, from the easel to the electron microscope to product design.
More about mePassword on request
05/Contact
Have a product that needs designing and building?
I’m available for freelance projects and open to full-time roles. Tell me what you’re working on and I’ll reply within a day.
- Reply within 24 hours 01
- Free first consultation 02
- Clear proposal, pricing and timeline 03