Daniel Gaievskyi
Design Engineer
I was born in Ukraine, and now live in Poland.
I currently work at Authologic (YC21), where I make frontends and contribute to designs of a platform that verifies who you are online — the layer between digital identity wallets, banks, documents, and the products that need to trust them.
Before that, I spent years across outsourcing companies, startups, and freelance — shipping products for clients in fintech (mBank), e-commerce (Nike, Sephora), logistics (InPost), and beyond. Working in many different codebases taught me to care about the details most teams skip. I love experimenting and pushing boundaries, never settling.
Writing (2)
- Growth Draft
- A missing part of the Web Draft
- Design like Apple Draft
- Silence—
- Future of Interfaces—
Crafts (20)
- Ticket: A horizontal event ticket with radial pixel pattern, palette switching, and pointer-driven tilt.
- Siri in Dynamic Island: Siri live activities expanding from the Dynamic Island — liquid glass, spring physics, and interruptible state transitions.
- Apple Gallery Control: A gallery control with Apple-style polish — smooth physics animations and live activity states.
- Apple Hello: A typographic "hello" animation inspired by Apple’s branding — motion, spacing, and restraint as a layout study.
- Apple Product Viewer: An interactive product viewer with drag-to-orbit 3D presentation and crisp lighting — Apple-style marketing polish in the browser.
- Vercel Call to Action: A Vercel-inspired call-to-action with staggered text animation on hover.
- Range Chart: An interactive stock chart with drag-to-select range — live price, delta, and curve color respond in real time with spring physics.
- Gallery: A responsive gallery layout with masonry-style rhythm. Inspired by Pinterest.
- Spatial Tooltip: A tooltip that respects depth and parallax — hover targets with layered motion and spatial cues.
- Fractional Slider: An experimental fractional slider component with haptic-style SFX — drag to explore.
- iOS Slider: A stretchable brightness slider replicating the iOS Control Center — rubber-band physics and smooth spring animations.
- Graph Slider: A slider paired with live graph feedback — scrub values and watch the chart respond in sync.
- Dynamic Island: Apple Dynamic Island experiment on the web — smooth physics animations with live activity states.
- Radial Menu: An elegant radial context menu — gesture-driven, spring-animated, and fully keyboard accessible.
- Vercel Badge: A 3D Vercel Ship 2024 badge recreation — WebGL with realistic materials and physics.
- Family Transactions: A family expense tracker UI with animated transaction cards and real-time balance updates.
- Portfolio: Portfolio layout exploration — case studies with video-backed previews and clear hierarchy.
- Video Editor: A custom video editor chrome — controls, scrubber, and playback states built for clarity and touch.
- Digital Agency: A digital agency landing concept — bold type, rich imagery, and conversion-led section rhythm.
- Jamstack: A Jamstack website showcase.
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