Denmark

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Product Design

Front-end

Branding

UX Testing

UX Research

Marta Grzegowska

CPHUX

UX designer

Usability Testing

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

Accessibility

Data visualisation

Design systems

User research

Product roadmap

Webflow

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

ChatGPT

Figma

GitHub

JavaScript

Jira

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Sketch

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

As UX designer in Nordea I am particularly involved in 3 major areas.
I'm a leading UX designer for a high-priority Norwegian project where I played a pivotal role in improving the application while executing a critical target architecture strategy to reduce local solution.

I led stakeholder & project coordination from design perspective across circa 20 collegues, unifying efforts across silos to ensure seamless aligment between UX, business goals and technical feasability. My work directly influenced business decisions based on research-driven insights and refinements and impacted long-term roadmap of the project & decision-making process at more company-wide level.

Additionally, in the project I improved information architecture and user journeys for better usability and efficiency. Furthermore I built an UX recommendation backlog and I am collaborating closesely with business to prioritise improvements. Work on this project contributed to the developement of new UX design patterns, added to company wide Design System, shaping scalable, consistent and accessible approach used across multiple applications and benefiting over 70+ designers.

As part of my contribution, I also led the design of another key project first-of-its-kind non-customer portal enabling non-customers to log in to Nordea and track their ongoing applications. This project aims to significantly improve UX and conversion rates for applications. This initiative required advanced stakeholder management, detailed user mapping, and strategic collaboration to ensure successful alignment with business objectives.

Additionally, I support strategic research to drive innovation and shape the roadmap for long-term target solutions, ensuring that design initiatives align with business growth and user needs.

To foster collaboration and promote UX culture, I've led workshops within the Design Community, further continuting to knowledge sharing and team cohesion.

- Conducting strategic research
- Identifying gaps and opportunities for product development 
- Design system creation and maintenance
- Creating cohesive UX design patterns
- Facilitator of design workshops & syncs
- Participating in shaping products strategy & vision
- Testing different product concepts and ideas
- Creating user journeys for the products
- Optimization of design processes
- Design reviews and heuristic evaluation
- Designers recruitment, onboarding, and mentorship
- Ideation and concept development

- Defining design system processes
- Design system creation and maintenance
- Delivering impactful solutions that move business metrics and solve user problems based on research
- Managing complex projects mostly autonomously
- Conducting quantitive and qualitative research methods across projects
- Facilitating ideation workshops sessions
- Designing interfaces that are functional, usable, and aesthetically beautiful
- Leading design work across multiple teams 
- Contribution to identifying gaps and opportunities across products

While working for Dicentia Studios, my task was to create a problem solution associated with a low revenue stream coming from the physical media sector. I've created a product corresponding to the needs of the target audience and the market. The on-line vinyl conﬁgurator where the user is able to create and preview its perfect vinyl release. Moreover, I was responsible for the marketing campaign.

My tasks included:

- Creating a design system for digital solutions in Dicentia Studios
- Develop UI mockups and wireframes and prototypes of the Diecentia Studios products
- Building components and graphic elements 
- Collaborating together with  Developers to create the user interface
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
- Conduct layout adjustments based on user testing
- Create high-level conceptual sketches as well as prototypes as part of defining user flows and UI patterns
- Align the UI Components and help to raise the bar for user experience
- Follow and deliver design work aligned to the design process 
- Following and set company style guides
- Developing the style guide
- Responsibility for print and digital marketing
- Interaction Design
- UX writing

While working at Relesys I was responsible for design of Communication & Performance Apps for users all around the world. I designed apps for companies such as Magasin, By Malene Birger, Pieces, Telia,  Netto, and more. Additionally, I was responsible for the app development process in the internal CMS system and for the creation of visual materials for the company’s clients. The business result for the Relesys was acquiring new customers with apps designed by me thus increasing the company’s proﬁts.- Planning and coordination of work in collaboration with the project team

My tasks included:

- Visualization of ideas and concepts.
- Preparation of graphic elements regarding workshops for clients.
- App Design mockup for clients
- Development of temporary mockups for testing.
- User Research regarding design progress.
- Development of design regarding new design for the company’s webpage including UX test
- Ongoing graphic elements for the webpage.
- Setting up the final PSD design files for use for a backend .NET developer
- Ongoing collaboration with the.NET developer 
-Development of the apps in internal CMS system

During my freelance projects, I help clients build their brand identity, ﬁnd digital problem solutions for the challenges they face, deal with product design, and implement my ideas through the development process.

During the internship, I established design guidelines and ensured that the visual elements are consistent. Moreover, I created the ﬁrst brand design manual of the company and improved the UX of the company's website.

My tasks included:

- creating Design Manual of the company
- improving functionality and readability of the current
website
- UI/UX
- creating illustrations for the website

Marta Grzegowska🇩🇰