My experience

Below, I chronologically listed my experience as a designer & manager but also other significant events that made me who I am today.

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Designer & Manager πŸ¦‰ Mentor & Lecturer 🎀 Speaker & Panelist ✊🏼 Volunteer & Activist


πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Brainly - Sr. Manager, Design Foundations & Strategy Lead

April 2023 - Present

Brainly is the biggest online learning community in the world, with over 250 million active users monthly, 11 language versions, and a community from 32 countries. Our motto: No one knows everything, but everyone knows something. With Brainly, students combine their strengths and talents to tackle problems together.

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Brainly - Sr. Manager, Design Systems & Foundations Lead

March 2021 – April 2023

Brainly is the biggest online learning community in the world, with over 250 million active users monthly, 11 language versions, and a community from 32 countries. Our motto: No one knows everything, but everyone knows something. With Brainly, students combine their strengths and talents to tackle problems together.

🎀 Schema by Figma 2022 - Speaker

Nov 2022

Schema is an annual design systems conference by Figma, on the road to hosting three in-person events in New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as a virtual event for the location agnostic.

🎀 DesignWays / WaysConf 2022 - Speaker

Sep 2022

WaysConf is Central and Eastern Europe's largest event for creators of digital products, promoting unique and empowering conversations on digital design. This involves professionals from various backgrounds, including researchers, designers, developers, and managers.

🎀 The Future of Design Systems 2022 - Speaker

May 2022

The Future of Design Systems is the biggest virtual and interactive Design Systems conference worldwide. Our speakers are Design Systems experts & pioneers all of them provide practical & hands-on future-proofed content.

🎀 DesignWays / WaysConf 2021 - Speaker

Sep 2021

WaysConf is Central and Eastern Europe's largest event for creators of digital products, promoting unique and empowering conversations on digital design. This involves professionals from various backgrounds, including researchers, designers, developers, and managers.

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Brainly - Manager,
Design System Lead

2018 – 2021

Brainly is the biggest online learning community in the world, with over 250 million active users monthly, 11 language versions, and a community from 32 countries. Our motto: No one knows everything, but everyone knows something. With Brainly, students combine their strengths and talents to tackle problems together.

πŸ¦‰ Elementarz UX - Mentor

Dec 2020

Elementarz UX is one of the best UX conferences in Poland. This event organized by Element Talks and The Awwwesomes is an interactive experience loved by attendees and speakers. I had a chance to be a mentor in areas of Design Systems, UI, IxD Product Design, DesignOps, Design Leadership, Design Culture, building a career path, recruitment, and more

🎀 UXDX 2020 Europe - Speaker & Panelist

Oct 2020

UXDX is an event that advocates breaking down the barriers between Product, UX, Design, and Dev to empower teams to build products that customers love and deliver exceptional business results. With speakers like Marty Cagan, Jeff Gothelf, Teresa Torres, or Jeff Patton, this conference is one of the highlights of the year for β€œthe product people”.

🎀 UXDX 2020 Community Eastern Europe - Speaker

Jun 2020

UXDX is an event that advocates breaking down the barriers between Product, UX, Design, and Dev to empower teams to build products that both customers love and deliver exceptional business results.

🎀 Design Systems Community (DSCC Berlin) - Speaker

Jul 2020

Global Design System Community Chapter Berlin invited me to share Brainly's Design System Story. I had the pleasure to meet my co-speaker Viktoriia Leontieva from GitHub, who talked about Communicating Design Systems.

πŸ¦‰ Tischner European University - Lecturer

2020

The uniqueness of this university with regards to studying is multilayer. Subjects and specializations are adjusted to the market requirements every year and teaching programs are consulted with specialists of various fields. Not only necessary practical knowledge is provided for students but also practice.

I was lecturing User Interface Design to a group of 23 students for 60 hours of expositions and practical lab tasks.

🎀 Mobile Trends Conference - Speaker

Sep 2018

Mobile Trends is the most prestigious mobile conference in Poland. Together with Konrad Dzwinel, we talked about Design Systems. The title of our presentation was: "How to close the gap between the design and development".

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Brainly - Product Designer

2016 – 2018

Brainly is the biggest online learning community in the world, with over 250 million active users monthly, 11 language versions, and a community from 32 countries. Our motto: No one knows everything, but everyone knows something. With Brainly, students combine their strengths and talents to tackle problems together.

πŸ¦‰ School of Computer Graphics - Lecturer

2018 – 2020

This school allows students to acquire various skills to start working as designers in several specializations. Classes are conducted by professionally active experts.
I’ve lectured Webdesign for two years and during that time shared my knowledge with hundreds of students in dozens of small groups.

✊🏼 "SLGK" Association -
Co-founder, Board member

2016 – 2020

"SLGK - Sto Lat Glosu Kobiet" was a series of meetups, debates, exhibitions, and workshops to increase awareness of history and the current state of women's rights in Poland. I was a volunteer/activist who co-founded and served as a board member of this association for a few years.

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Onet / Ringier Axel Springer Polska -
Mid / Senior / Expert Designer

2007 – 2016

Ringier Axel Springer is a leading media company in Poland and part of the international Ringier Axel Springer Media AG group operating in Central and Eastern Europe which publishes over 100 press titles and operates 70 online services.

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Pascal - Editorial Designer

2004 – 2008

Pascal Publishing House is a leader among tourist publishers in Poland and the only representative of the Lonely Planet brand in Poland.
I was supporting Pascal by designing book covers, layouts and sometimes advertisements

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Yellowpages - Web Designer

2005 – 2006

I was the only designer responsible for designing a polish version of the popular online business directory. My role was designing mockups for continuous iterations and collaborating with developers on implementing them. My role included also branding and iconography.

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Mainseek - Web Designer

2004 – 2005

At Mainseek I’ve learned the basics of designing for e-commerce. I was designing mockups for continuous iterations and working with developers on implementing them. My role included also branding and iconography.

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Optimus Pascal Multimedia - Designer

1998 – 2003

At Optimus Pascal Multimedia, we created rich applications before they became a thing on the internet. My first job was co-designing the interactive app β€œMultimedia Rock Encyclopedia", and working on multiple applications, packages, and ads for titles Optimus Pascal Multimedia published solo or in collaboration with DK - Dorling Kindersley our main partner.