Product Design
Business
Culture
User Experience
Product Design Process: Discovery Phase [UPDATED 2022]
Working with an outsourced team can be a challenge. Different locations, time zones, and sometimes even cultures. You're in one location, while your hired team is elsewhere, building what will become your product. How...
Paweł Hawrylak
• December 20, 2021
Product Design
What Design Really Is? An Introduction
Many years ago I attended an architecture conference with my father (an architect and college professor) and he told me something interesting. We were leaving after hearing a presentation on “ecological architecture”...
Paweł Hawrylak
• July 21, 2021
Culture
D&I
Tips From a Product Designer: How to Make Design More Inclusive
Exclusions happen in physical and digital spaces. But how often do we think about it in the digital product space? It is our duty as Product Designers to keep in mind diverse needs and create the most inclusive solution...
Paweł Hawrylak
• June 1, 2021
Culture
Hi!5 - Paweł Hawrylak, Senior Designer - Sabbatical Leave story
Before taking my sabbatical, I was with Monterail for five years and one month. I joined the company as a UI designer and nearly six months later, and somewhat by chance, I took over as Head of the Design Team.
Paweł Hawrylak
• September 18, 2019
Product Design
User Experience
8 Fundamental Chrome Extensions For Designers (With Bonus)
Digital product design isn’t only about creating. The ecosystem surrounding the creation act is quite big and contains, e.g, researching existing websites and applications, as well as quality assurance of your app...
Paweł Hawrylak
• June 13, 2019
Product Design
Business
Development
Data Visualization
User Experience
Crafting Stories Using Data Visualization Design
In October 2018 I was invited to give a talk at the fifth Future of Design meetup, called The Beauty of Data. My talk was called “Crafting a story in data visualization”.
Paweł Hawrylak
• January 10, 2019
Product Design
Culture
Rules To Go By, If You Want To Become A Product Designer*
*In a medium sized software house in Wrocław, we’re currently looking for a new team member who knows how to design applications, network management tools, procurement or social platforms, and such. For those who don’t...
Paweł Hawrylak
• May 26, 2017
Product Design
Culture
What is a Service Jam and why should you attend one?
This was a busy year for service design. Our friends at BLStream organized “Basics of service design. UX#3”. A few months back there was a first Service design drinks event in Warsaw, organized by the guys from Service...
Paweł Hawrylak
• February 14, 2017
Product Design
Business
Development
User Experience
The power of email clients: why did we redesign Thunderbird?
Update (16.01.17): Our Thunderbird redesign drew a lot of buzz from industry press. Now we teamed up with Mozilla Thunderbird core team to think how we can upgrade current look and feel of the product. Maybe using the...
Paweł Hawrylak
• November 17, 2016
Product Design
IoT
Monterale Breweree: How we merge passion of brewing beer with IoT
There are people that like to drink beer. Then, there are people that like to taste beer. People that can tell the difference between different kinds of water, hops, malts and yeasts. Perfectly balanced, those basic...
Paweł Hawrylak
• July 21, 2016
Culture
Time To Grow. How We Designed Our New Office
Disclaimer: this story isn't exactly about our new office, but about values and people. And as much as I realize that this sounds a bit cheesy, that's the truth. It starts with me and a decision to make: should I...
Paweł Hawrylak
• March 24, 2015