Lukasz Belcarski
Product Designer
Experience
Senior Product Designer
CDEX (Cyber Defence Exercise Platform)
Led initiatives aimed at optimizing and aligning the operations of the business, product, and marketing teams. This involved defining the core values of the company, establishing a brand direction, setting key business objectives, and understanding customer profiles.
Introduced an efficient design process. This included creating standardized design protocols, providing essential design tools, and fostering a collaborative relationship with the product development team.
Created a user-friendly Design System tailored for the early stages of product development, improving communication, speeding up UI design, and providing a strong foundation for scalability.
Created a cohesive visual identity for marketing materials, maintaining uniform product presentation.
Visually integrated two different product versions (classic and new), simplifying communication in sales and presenting the product as a unified entity.
Designed user interfaces for new features.
Design Team Lead
Cogision (UX Agency)
Implemented dailies, sprint system framework, time management, weekly company updates and more.
Created a internal common stack of tools and methods for daily work that led to more collaborative work and higher performance, helping scale the team and business.
Created standards for how projects are run (from tools to presentation templates).
Introduced design process that helped designers feel safe in their work and business owners prepare more realistic and quality client offers.
Introduced knowledge sharing to exchange information, tips and wisdom between different teams.
Mentored and led teams of 4 to 9 people.
Helped the design team create tools, methods and standards for more effective and efficient UX/UI design work, such as design prep work, design feedback, and more.
Defined basic roles and responsibilities along with career paths.
Introduced 1:1 sessions, design team meetings, and design challenges.
Led the design of a new mobile app for Polityka.pl, both functionally and visually, resulting in doubling the number of paying subscribers in just 12 months since its launch.
Led the design of a unique reading experience of Newsweek's digital version, which has been rated exceptionally well by the industry experts and everyday users.
Senior Product Designer
Bethink.pl (Education platform)
Arranged and improved the design process between designers and developers that led to better communication and streamlined production (style guide, education on design process steps, collaborative approach to problems, design feedback for everyone).
Envisioned, launched, and improved numerous platform-wide features, such as a new product purchase user flow or onboarding process.
Cooperated with company CEOs in creating product strategy.
Introduced new methods and tools that improved collaboration and quality across the company, such as design feedback and design thinking or using online whiteboard tool.
Supported junior designers through 1:1 sessions and design feedback.
Senior UX/UI Designer
Cogision (UX Agency)
Led the digital transformation strategy for Polityka.pl (centre-left weekly news magazines), which tripled the number of digital subscribers by the end of 2020 and remains effective to this day.
Designed an interface for a new model of an induction hob. A novelty in this industry was the use of accessibility principles in the design of such a solution.
Successfully led various projects from concept to development handoff or development supervision for clients ranging from banking, news, home appliances, insurances, and more.
Constantly cooperated with strategists, researchers, and other designers to deliver high-quality projects.
Supported other designers in their growth.
Product Designer
Fandom (formerly Wikia)
Led the development and implementation of user research practices.
Collaborated on product strategy vision.
Established information architecture for community-driven initiatives.
Produced interaction design diagrams of user flows for various features such as login/registration flow.
Senior Graphic Designer
Ostecx Creative (Branding Agency)
Refined and implemented a structured feedback system critical for design reviews.
Led development of key marketing collateral for clients for various marketing and social media initiatives.
Introduced UX best practices and fostered its establishment within the agency's design process.
Graphic Designer
Data Solutions (Consulting Agency)
Provided designs for various collateral such as presentations, brochures, magazines and web layouts for the agency's clientele.
Oversaw each project from design-to-production including vendor management.
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Education
Art University in Poznan
Bachelor's degree · Graphic Design · Poznań, Poland
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