Senior Product / UX Designer ยท Crypto, Fintech & AI

I design complex financial products that people can actually use.

10+ years designing digital products, the last two as the sole UX owner across Trading, Staking, Loans and Custody at Bitcoin Suisse, a Swiss crypto platform for institutional and private wealth clients. I take products from first idea to production, and I build the design systems and AI workflows that make that possible.

Selected work

Five projects, all live.

01

Advanced Trading

A product built only for simple conversions needed a professional trading experience. I designed the whole life of a trade: market discovery, order types, execution strategies, error states, review and order management.

Proves: complex UX, financial workflows, market mechanics

The Advanced Trading interface with chart, order form and orders table.
02

Design System + AI

Three contradicting design systems became one: 128 variables, light and dark mode, semantic naming. Then I made it AI-compatible with Figma MCP and a custom skill, so I can design from VS Code into Figma using the real components.

Proves: design systems, AI-native workflow, systems thinking

The Figma variables panel showing semantic tokens with light and dark values.
03

Markets → Trading

Almost no trades started from the Markets page. I found the problem in the analytics, made the main action visible on both the Markets and asset pages, and the numbers moved: +15% trades and +34% conversion.

Proves: product analytics, conversion, measurable impact

The Markets page with a Trade button on every asset row.
04

Security: Passkeys & EAS

Two live security features. Passkeys let clients sign in with a fingerprint instead of a 6-digit code. EAS adds three security layers before a new withdrawal account can be used, shown as one clear timeline.

Proves: security-critical UX, risk, regulated constraints

Withdrawal Accounts page with status labels and a passkey confirmation window.
05

Client Center

Clients reached their relationship manager by email, phone, Telegram and WhatsApp, which opened the door to phishing. I designed one secure message center inside the platform, with relationship managers involved at every round.

Proves: information architecture, secure communication, working with real users

The Client Center inbox with conversations and the relationship team panel.

Recommendations

What people I work with say.

From LinkedIn recommendations by colleagues, clients and people I have mentored.

She’s very interested in AI and how it is changing the way we design and work. I worked closely with Magdalena on making our design system AI-ready, and the results we achieved were great. She’s always open to different perspectives, but also knows when to push back and stand behind her thinking.

Pavol Tkáčik Worked with Magdalena on the same team

Magdalena excels at designing solutions that meet customers’ needs and business goals. She is an integral part of our product growth team that is in charge of product adoption and retention. Her expertise in design, UX, UI and research is helping bring a better product and service to our customers.

Zuzana Pokrivčáková Senior UX Researcher & Product Strategist

Her designs for the application were quite intuitive and clean for the end user to understand what’s going on and what they had to do at any page or component. I hope that someday in the future we can work together again.

Martin Cavallero Wagner Software Test Engineer, Bitcoin Suisse

Instead of offering ready-made solutions, she encourages you to think critically, ask the right questions, and discover your own path. She also has a clear vision for the future, staying aware of how technology evolves.

Denitsa Ivanova Freelance Web & Product UX Designer

About

10+ years of making complicated things clear.

Portrait of Magdalena Linkova.

I’m a Senior Product / UX Designer with deep experience in crypto, fintech and financial platforms. I lead UX from first strategy through delivery, turning complex business, regulatory and technical requirements into something clients can follow.

At Bitcoin Suisse I’m the sole UX owner across Trading, Staking, Loans and Custody, designing revenue-critical products for institutional and private wealth clients. I use product analytics to find friction and connect design decisions to business results. I also build the design systems and AI-assisted workflows that make the team faster.

Before that I spent three years at Slido (part of Cisco) on a SaaS platform for interactive meetings, and two years at Accenture on international projects for Qatar Airways, Deutsche Bahn, La Roche-Posay and COOP Denmark. I started as a graphic designer, which is where the eye for detail comes from.

Now

Bitcoin Suisse, Senior Product / UX Designer (Sept 2024 – present)

Before

Slido, part of Cisco (2021–2024) · Accenture (2019–2021) · Kistler (2017–2019) · European Society of Radiology, Vienna (2015–2017)

Product & UX

Product strategy · UX strategy · Interaction design · 0→1 product design · Complex financial products

Research & data

UX research · Product analytics · Conversion optimisation · PostHog

Systems & tech

Design systems · Figma · Figma MCP · AI-assisted design · Design-to-development

Education

Master’s in Graphic Design, New Bulgarian University · Interaction Design Foundation certificate

Based in

Slovakia, working remotely and hybrid

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