Hi 👋
I am Patryk Szymański – Senior UX/Product designer, based in Kraków, Poland, available worldwide.
Currently, I design fintech solutions at Backbase. My prior six years of experience include working on e-commerce platforms for CCC Group, the largest shoe retailer in CEE, and leading the Design Team at DataFeedWatch, a digital marketing SaaS product.
My work process is built on close collaboration with product teams, including managers, business and product owners, engineers, researchers, and analysts.
From the very start of my design journey, I've been an active member of the local UX community. On top of organizing meetups and speaking at conferences, I've also worked as a lecturer in the Interaction Design Lab at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in Krakow, sharing my expertise in human-computer interaction.
I hold a master's degree in psychology and an aviation technician diploma. Already knowing a thing or two about brains and planes, I'm now looking to dig deeper into software engineering.
Skills
My main fields of expertise are:
- UX and UI design
- Product design
- Interaction design
- Workshop facilitation
- User research
- Prototyping and mockups
- UX audits
- Design systems
I also feel comfortable with:
- Service design
- Leadership
- HTML and CSS (I coded this website myself)
Get to know me
Favorite design book: User Story Mapping
Favorite work method: Co-design
Favorite product method: Opportunity Solution Tree
Favorite activity: Mountain biking 🚵