About Me

Senior Product Designer for regulated identity. I design the flows and systems other teams build their products on, where a design decision moves cost, risk, and compliance, not just conversion.

Senior Product Designer working on identity infrastructure — eIDAS, QES, and EUDI wallet systems.

Senior Product Designer working on identity infrastructure — eIDAS, QES, and EUDI wallet systems.

Portrait of Vasiliki Bourli

Most digital products fail at complexity. They either hide it badly or hand it to the user. Regulated identity is where that fails hardest, because there, clarity is the product.

Experience working with large-scale regulated partners, including AOK, BARMER, and Deutsche Bahn.

What I focus on

The systems other teams build on: the flows, shared patterns, and standards that keep a product consistent as it grows and as the rules change. My focus is security- and compliance-critical work: verification, signing, and the trust flows underneath, in digital identity and healthcare.

How I work

I turn regulatory and technical complexity into something people can actually use. Most of the real work happens before the screens: the flow decisions, the system architecture, the call on what to build and what to cut. In practice I'm the one connecting what legal, engineering and product each know but haven't put together, and turning it into a decision the team can move on.

Writing to align decisions

I write the document the team argues from, then decides from. On LEAN ID, that was the UX solution design.

How I work with AI

I use AI to work faster, understand complex systems and test ideas. The judgment stays mine.

Understanding the system

I use AI to work through large amounts of internal material: meeting notes, documentation, decision history. On LEAN ID, I traced how features had changed over the years, to understand why the system worked the way it did and which dependencies a fix had to respect. I used the company's approved tool, Microsoft Copilot, so internal material stayed inside company systems. AI finds the pattern; I check it against the source.

Building and proofs of concept

I build working versions to test an idea or fill a gap before it costs engineering time. On ID2GO, there was no budget for apps, so I built the shop's missing features in code with Claude.

Background & mindset

I came to this through architecture and urban design, across five countries. Different discipline, same instinct: keep the user, the business, the law, and the technology in view at once, and find the shape that works for all of them. I like pragmatic decisions and plain communication, especially when the trade-offs are unavoidable and someone has to make the call.

Based in Berlin.

Available from November 2026

Experience

Verimi

Senior Product Designer

05/2026 - present

Verimi

Product Designer

05/2023 - 04/2026

Talentwunder

Product Designer

11/2021 - 11/2022

Athens · Florence · Berlin · Freiburg · Darmstadt

Architect & Urban Designer

2008 - 2021

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