Posts about Product Design
Crafting Visual Stories Using Data and Information
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”.
Admyt on Outsourcing Software Development and Working with Legacy Code
Tired with coins, lines, and faulty pay machines, Jordan Wainer, an entrepreneur and innovator decided to improve car parking systems around the world. That’s the story behind Admyt, a solution providing a seamless...
Discovery Workshops: How We Ensure Alignment Between Your Vision and An Actual Product
Working with an outsourced team can be a challenge. Different locations and time zones, sometimes even different cultures. You are where the business is, working hard to move things forward, while your hired team is...
We’re in Need of a Seasoned Product Designer. Join us!
Just like in the title. I’m in a need of a seasoned UX / product designer. I’m not gonna dwell too much on who we’re looking for… Instead, I want you to show me your personality, skills, and portfolio. If you’re good,...
Building a 3D iDesigner with Vue.js: Designing a Reactive Entity System
Being a frontend developer working on dozens of Web projects, it's fairly easy to dissolve into the numbing monotony of dashboards, tables, and photo galleries. But every now and then, an unusual project appears,...
Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface—Take Part In the Survey
Our latest post on the Thunderbird redesign drew a lot of buzz from industry press. Some people loved the new, modern look, others preferred Thunderbird’s current default version. As a result, the mockups stirred some...
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...
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”...
How to visualize complex, real-time IoT data: Design and UX principles
You may already know from our blog and this post that here at Monterail, we have our own Internet of Things R&D team, which I am happy to be a part of.
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...
IoT Healthcare App: Heartbeat detector using phone camera.
A few months ago I bought a smartband. The main idea being prosaic - I wanted to receive notifications from a smartphone as well as have a good pedometer. A few weeks after the purchase, the same company came out with a...
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...
Monterale Breweree: How we merge passion of brewing beer with IoT
Beer 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...
Front end + design = prototype magic. Advantages of blurring responsibilities
The topic of whether designers should or should not learn to code isn’t actually anything new. The pursuit of creating the web of tomorrow has led to the blurring of lines between front-end and back-end development...
4 Things I've Learned as a Product Designer so Far
For a while now, I’ve been one of Monterail’s product designers.
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