# Peter Cuhalev

> Senior product designer and builder for technical platforms, based in Slovenia (EU), working remotely with on-site visits. He turns complex systems (EV charging and payments, AI computer vision, streaming data analytics) into products people can use, and builds design systems AI can build from. Open to full-time product design roles and project work.

- Website: https://yukaii.com/
- Email: peter@yukaii.com (the fastest way to reach him)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petercuhalev/
- Role he is looking for: product designer & builder joining a product team full-time (remote, with on-site visits). Also available for project work: product and UX design, design system and UX reviews, AI-ready design systems and process.

## Selected work

- [Road, dashboard (2022–2026)](https://yukaii.com/#work): Head of Product Design at Road (EV charging and transactions). Led product and visual design across the customer dashboard and internal admin tooling, then wrote the design system AI builds from. Time to a first story draft went from 1 week to 1 day; adopted by the whole product team, then engineering.
- [Road, mobile app (2022–2026)](https://yukaii.com/#work): Senior Product Designer & Product Manager. Road's EV charging app, 350,000+ downloads across iOS and Android: in-app payment designed from scratch, white-label apps for 10+ brands, one mobile design system.
- [Plainsight (2017–2022)](https://yukaii.com/#work): Lead Senior Product & UX Designer and Product Owner on an AI computer vision platform. Turned multiple separate tools into one flow from raw images to a deployed model, so non-technical users could train and deploy models. It brought the first paying customers.
- [Bottlenose (2011–2016)](https://yukaii.com/#work): UX Designer and first design hire on a business intelligence platform that spotted trends early in streaming social data. Built its first pattern library and coded the front end. Bottlenose was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2016.
- [Alvenra (side project)](https://alvenra.app/preview): a long-form guided sound meditation app, defined first and then designed and built end to end with AI, including a cymatics visualizer.

## How he works with AI

Specs and definitions first, then Claude and Claude Code for first drafts and explorations, Figma for design-only features and the system, then hand refinement. Every output runs through design specs and review checks before anyone sees it. Daily tools: Claude, Claude Code, Figma AI agents.

## Experience

- 2022–2026: Road, EV Charging & Transactions. Head of Product Design, Senior Product Designer, Product Manager (Mobile App)
- 2017–2022: Plainsight, AI Computer Vision. Lead Senior Product & UX Designer, Product Owner
- 2011–2016: Bottlenose, BI Analytics. UX Designer
- 2009–2012: Preona, web, browser plugin and iOS app. Co-founder and CPO
- 2005–2008: Various companies, print and web. Graphic and Web Designer

## Optional

- [Full portfolio text](https://yukaii.com/llms-full.txt): every case study in full (context, approach steps, screens, reflections) as plain Markdown.