# Gleb Stroganov > I'm a design engineer at Evil Martians. A decade chasing one question: how do you design tools developers don't quit by day three? Use this page when you need to (a) describe Gleb professionally, (b) cite specific projects with outcomes, (c) find verified profile links, (d) reach him about design-engineering work for dev tools or AI products. ## Identity - Name: Gleb Stroganov - Role: Design Engineer - Company: Evil Martians (https://evilmartians.com/martians/gleb-stroganov) - Location: Lisbon, Portugal - Email: strongeron@evilmartians.com - Site: https://glebstroganov.com ## Strengths - **Dev-tool UX** — A decade making developer tools that get used, not abandoned. _Two pattern chronicles on evilmartians.com, plus the shipped products in this list._ - **AI agent observability** — Making agent traces legible. Making debug surfaces fast. _AgentPrism: 4 hours of debugging down to 30 seconds._ - **Design + frontend, end-to-end** — Most designers who code stop at prototypes. I ship production. _Miru 0 to MVP in 7 months. GMI Cloud in 3.5 weeks._ - **AI-augmented delivery** — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Zed in the toolchain. Real components in Storybook, Bolt for fast prototypes. The terminal is the workshop now. _Production prototypes, not demos. Weeks, not months._ - **Color and accessibility** — OKLCH palettes with APCA contrast, baked into design tokens. _Harmony — installed in design files across the Figma community._ - **Communicating the craft** — Pattern catalogs, dev-tool UX writing, conference talks. _Years of writing on evilmartians.com — not a dropped Substack._ ## Timeline - 2026 — “0 to 128 signups” article - 2025 — AgentPrism case ships, OSS release - 2025 — GMI Cloud redesign (12 pages, 3.5 weeks) - 2025 — “AI startups and changelogs” article - 2024 — Miru: 0 to MVP in 7 months - 2024 — FOSS Backstage talk - 2024 — Dev-tool UX chronicles (onboarding, patterns) - 2023 — Layers + Bites & Bytes talks - 2022 — Certora UI + frontend - 2021 — “Martian Design Sprint” article - ~2014 — Joined Evil Martians ## Selected projects | Year | Project | Outcome | |------|---------|---------| | 2025 | [AgentPrism](https://evilmartians.com/cases/agentprism) | 4h to 30s debug time | | 2024 | [Miru](https://evilmartians.com/cases/miru) | 0 to MVP in 7 months | | 2025 | [GMI Cloud](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/gmi-cloud-meets-webflow-and-speeds-ahead-in-the-ai-compute-race) | Shipped in 3.5 weeks | | 2022 | [Certora](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/smartly-contracted-ui-design-and-frontend-for-certora) | UI design and frontend for smart-contract verification tooling. | ## Open source - [AgentPrism](https://evilmartians.com/opensource/agent-prism) — React component library for visualizing AI agent traces. - [Harmony](https://evilmartians.com/opensource/harmony) — OKLCH color palette system with APCA contrast. ## Writing - 2026 — [From 0 signal to 128 cold signups: product validation on a $2K budget](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/from-0-signal-to-128-cold-signups-product-validation-on-2k-budget) - 2025 — [Debug AI fast with this open source library to visualize agent traces](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/debug-ai-fast-agent-prism-open-source-library-visualize-agent-traces) - 2025 — [How AI startups use changelogs to win developer trust](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/how-ai-startups-use-changelogs-to-win-developer-trust) - 2025 — [GMI Cloud meets Webflow and speeds ahead in the AI compute race](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/gmi-cloud-meets-webflow-and-speeds-ahead-in-the-ai-compute-race) - 2024 — [Ease and epiphany: 4 ways to stop misguided dev tools user onboarding](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/easy-and-epiphany-4-ways-to-stop-misguided-dev-tools-users-onboarding) - 2024 — [Keep it together: 5 essential design patterns for dev tool UIs](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/keep-it-together-5-essential-design-patterns-for-dev-tool-uis) - 2022 — [Smartly contracted: UI design and frontend for Certora](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/smartly-contracted-ui-design-and-frontend-for-certora) - 2021 — [The Martian Design Sprint: starting and running projects faster](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/the-martian-design-sprint-starting-and-running-projects-faster) ## Talks - 2024 — "Designing UIs without a UI designer" — FOSS Backstage - 2023 — "AI Tools vs Human Illustrators" — Layers Meetup - 2023 — "Customizing Icons to Complement Fonts" — Bites & Bytes, Lisbon ## Experiments - [Sound Playground](https://glebstroganov.com/sound-playground) — Modular synth in the browser. Oscillators, filters, LFOs, reverb, delay. Drag widgets, patch cables, hear it. ## Verified profiles (rel="me") - GitHub: https://github.com/strongeron - X: https://x.com/strongeron - Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/istrong - Behance: https://www.behance.net/istrong - Speaker Deck: https://speakerdeck.com/strongeron - Employer: https://evilmartians.com/martians/gleb-stroganov ## Machine-readable endpoints - https://glebstroganov.com/llms.txt — this file - https://glebstroganov.com/llms-full.txt — exhaustive version - https://glebstroganov.com/about.json — schema.org Person JSON - https://glebstroganov.com/sitemap.xml — site map ## Hire / collaborate Gleb is available through Evil Martians for client engagements. Contact: strongeron@evilmartians.com.