Timur Kondrakov is a UX specialist with about 20 years of professional experience. Born and raised in Uzbekistan, he resides in Gothenburg, Sweden for over a decade where he works as a UX strategist at Polestar. His role involves building medium to long-term UX strategy, as well as designing digital and physical HMIs for Polestar cars. Timur has extensive experience in UX and product design, most of which coming from the automotive and gaming industries. He has worked for companies like Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Viaplay and Volvo Cars among others, embracing a variety of roles, from UI design to front-end development to UX research and strategy and design leadership.

The Pop in Your Job:
I get to work with amazing, skilled people from diverse professional and personal backgrounds. The work environment in our industry is quite complex, so it’s always challenging and stimulating. It pushes you to constantly learn and evolve, and this is what I find exciting about my job. Also, cars play a very important role in the people’s lives and realizing that your work has an impact on the world drives me a lot.

Polestar (Nasdaq: PSNY) is the Swedish electric performance car brand determined to improve society by using design and technology to accelerate the shift to sustainable mobility. Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, its cars are available online in 27 markets globally across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Polestar plans to have a line-up of five performance EVs by 2026. Polestar 2, the electric performance fastback, launched in 2019. Polestar 3, the SUV for the electric age, launched in late 2022. Polestar 4, the SUV coupé transformed, is launching in phases through 2023 and into 2024. Polestar 5, an electric four-door GT and Polestar 6, an electric roadster, are coming soon. The Polestar 0 project is the company’s ambitious goal of creating a truly climate-neutral production car by 2030. The research initiative also aims to create a sense of urgency to act on the climate crisis, by challenging employees, suppliers, and the wider automotive industry, to drive towards zero.