Kirill Zakharov

I’m a Montreal-based designer specializing in interrelating people and technology through reductive design and code.

Currently shaping the future of open photography as the Head of Design at Unsplash.

Outside of my day-to-day, I enjoy traveling stay at home and take photos with my pocket camera-phone.

Find me elsewhere on the web: Twitter, Dribbble, LinkedIn or e-mail me at ⤷︎ info@kirillz.com.

About

• Interface Lovers ^{↗︎ Interview}
• Evolving Unsplash: Tumblr to Product ^{↗︎ Talk}
• Building my (old) portfolio ^{↗︎ Screencast}

Projects

• Unsplash Awards ^{↗︎ Project}
  A yearly celebration created to recognize the powerful impact Unsplash contributors have made through their generosity and artistry.
  In collaboration with Charles Deluvio, Unsplash

• Unsplash for Developers ^{↗︎ Project}
  The Unsplash API is used in over 6,000 third-party applications, including Medium, Trello, Adobe, Google, Typeform, Codepen, InVision and Product Hunt.
  In collaboration with Charles Deluvio, Unsplash

• Unsplash for iOS ^{↗︎ App}
  Official Unsplash app for iOS.
  In collaboration with Olivier Collet, Charles Deluvio, Unsplash

• Unsplash Instant ^{↗︎ Extension}
  A Google Chrome extension that shows a random photo from Unsplash every time you open a new tab.
  In collaboration with Luke Chesser, Charles Lalonde

• Unsplash for Figma ^{↗︎ Plugin}
  Official Unsplash plugin for Figma.
  In collaboration with Liam Martens

Other

• A new logo for Unsplash ^{↗︎ Project}
  We’ve teammed up with Mackey Saturday to figure out a new, distinctive identity for Unsplash.
  In collaboration with Mackey Saturday, Charles Deluvio, Unsplash

• What the Figma? ^{↗︎ Process}
  Thoughts on design software and why we migrated the Unsplash Design Library to Figma.

↳︎ Footnotes

1. This site was intentionally built primitively in plain HTML. No CSS, no JavaScript, no frameworks.
2. It’s accessible, responsive and works in all browsers and on all devices.
3. To be used as a breather and a reflection on the abundance of modern-day technologies and debates about the right and wrong ways of designing and building for the web.