My experience
Below, I chronologically listed my experience as a designer & manager but also other significant events that made me who I am today.
👩🏻💻 Designer & Manager 🦉 Mentor & Lecturer 🎤 Speaker & Panelist ✊🏼 Volunteer & Activist
🎤 WaysConf 2025 - Speaker
Sep 2025
Central Europe’s highest-rated conference for teams who want to ship better products. WaysConf 2026 unites experienced product, design, and research professionals across the full product lifecycle. Built for mid-to-lead practitioners who want to grow and create real impact.
Roundtable “Innovation by Design”
👩🏻💻 Zalando - Head of Product Design
Oct 2024 - Jun 2025
Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to more than 50 million active customers in 25 markets; offering clothes, footwear, accessories, and beauty.
🎤 Infra.ai Inspect & Reflect - Speaker
Jun 2025
LIVE co-creation session exploring Shopify’s Polaris Design System through real-world examples on shopify.com and the Shopify admin experience. This collaborative workshop offers a unique opportunity to understand how design systems support merchant tools and e-commerce platforms, identify opportunities for improvement, and discuss strategies for optimizing component adoption, consistency, and usability across Shopify’s ecosystem.
🎤 Disruption Forum 2025 by Netguru - Speaker
Feb 2025
A design leadership online event on using AI responsibly to amplify creativity, accelerate design-to-code, and shape the future of UX.
Panel: “Where’s UX Heading? On Shifting Roles & AI-Powered Capabilities”
👩🏻💻 Philip Morris International - UX Leadership Consultant
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
PMI aims to transcend its identity as a cigarette company. With a commitment to societal transformation and a vision of a smoke-free future, PMI is undergoing a significant transformation. Betting its entire future on a line of smoke-free products, it strives to deliver a healthier tomorrow.
👩🏻💻 Visual Contracts - Fractional Design Leader
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
Pioneering the revolution in contract engagement, Visual Contracts startup impacts multiple societal levels. Empowering individuals to assert their rights and fostering stronger relationships, it champions fair business practices for economic growth. Additionally, striving to enhance access to justice on an institutional level, it contributes to societal equity, inclusion, and justice for all.
🎤 Design Operations London 2024 - Speaker
May 2024
Design Operations London 2024 brings together design leaders and practitioners to explore how embracing change can strengthen DesignOps, elevate design impact, and help teams do their best work. Through practical case studies and expert insights, the event focuses on scaling DesignOps, improving processes, building strong collaboration with the business, and future-proofing design through evolving roles, skills, and technology.
Talk: “Designing for People: A Transformation from Company-Centric to Customer-Centric”
👩🏻💻 Brainly - Sr. Manager/Head of Design, Design Foundations & Strategy Lead
Dec 2016 - Sep 2023
Brainly is the #1 AI education tool in the world. Relied upon by 15 mln daily users; students, parents and teachers. Brainly operates in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
🎤 DesignWays / WaysConf 2022 - Speaker
Sep 2022
WaysConf is Central and Eastern Europe's largest event for creators of digital products, promoting unique and empowering conversations on digital design. This involves professionals from various backgrounds, including researchers, designers, developers, and managers.
Talk: “Brainly’s Design Center of Excellence: Scale & Synergy”
🎤 The Future of Design Systems 2022 - Speaker
May 2022
The Future of Design Systems is the biggest virtual and interactive Design Systems conference worldwide. Our speakers are Design Systems experts & pioneers all of them provide practical & hands-on future-proofed content.
Talk: “Multidimensional Design Systems”
🎤 DesignWays / WaysConf 2021 - Speaker
Sep 2021
WaysConf is Central and Eastern Europe's largest event for creators of digital products, promoting unique and empowering conversations on digital design. This involves professionals from various backgrounds, including researchers, designers, developers, and managers.
Talk: “Designing Systems meets Design Ops”
🦉 Elementarz UX - Mentor
Dec 2020
Elementarz UX is one of the best UX conferences in Poland. This event organized by Element Talks and The Awwwesomes is an interactive experience loved by attendees and speakers. I had a chance to be a mentor in areas of Design Systems, UI, IxD Product Design, DesignOps, Design Leadership, Design Culture, building a career path, recruitment, and more
UXDX is an event that advocates breaking down the barriers between Product, UX, Design, and Dev to empower teams to build products that customers love and deliver exceptional business results. With speakers like Marty Cagan, Jeff Gothelf, Teresa Torres, or Jeff Patton, this conference is one of the highlights of the year for “the product people”.
Talk: “Designing for Development”
Panel: “Design Ops. How do we scale”
🎤 Design Systems Community (DSCC Berlin) - Speaker
Jul 2020
Global Design System Community Chapter Berlin invited me to share Brainly's Design System Story. I had the pleasure to meet my co-speaker Viktoriia Leontieva from GitHub, who talked about Communicating Design Systems.
Talk: “Designing for Development”
🦉 Tischner European University - Lecturer
2020
The uniqueness of this university with regards to studying is multilayer. Subjects and specializations are adjusted to the market requirements every year and teaching programs are consulted with specialists of various fields. Not only necessary practical knowledge is provided for students but also practice.
I was lecturing User Interface Design to a group of 23 students for 60 hours of expositions and practical lab tasks.
🎤 Mobile Trends Conference - Speaker
Sep 2018
Mobile Trends is the most prestigious mobile conference in Poland. Together with Konrad Dzwinel, we talked about Design Systems. The title of our presentation was: "How to close the gap between the design and development".
Talk: “Design Systems: Bridging the gap between design and developement”
🦉 School of Computer Graphics - Lecturer
2018 – 2020
This school allows students to acquire various skills to start working as designers in several specializations. Classes are conducted by professionally active experts.
I’ve lectured Webdesign for two years and during that time shared my knowledge with hundreds of students in dozens of small groups.
✊🏼 "SLGK" Association -
Co-founder, Board member
2016 – 2020
"SLGK - Sto Lat Glosu Kobiet" was a series of meetups, debates, exhibitions, and workshops to increase awareness of history and the current state of women's rights in Poland. I was a volunteer/activist who co-founded and served as a board member of this association for a few years.
👩🏻💻 Onet / Ringier Axel Springer Polska -
Mid / Senior / Expert Designer
2007 – 2016
Ringier Axel Springer is a leading media company in Poland and part of the international Ringier Axel Springer Media AG group operating in Central and Eastern Europe which publishes over 100 press titles and operates 70 online services.
👩🏻💻 Pascal - Editorial Designer
2004 – 2008
Pascal Publishing House is a leader among tourist publishers in Poland and the only representative of the Lonely Planet brand in Poland.
I was supporting Pascal by designing book covers, layouts and sometimes advertisements
👩🏻💻 Yellowpages - Web Designer
2005 – 2006
I was the only designer responsible for designing a polish version of the popular online business directory. My role was designing mockups for continuous iterations and collaborating with developers on implementing them. My role included also branding and iconography.
👩🏻💻 Mainseek - Web Designer
2004 – 2005
At Mainseek I’ve learned the basics of designing for e-commerce. I was designing mockups for continuous iterations and working with developers on implementing them. My role included also branding and iconography.
👩🏻💻 Optimus Pascal Multimedia - Designer
1998 – 2003
At Optimus Pascal Multimedia, we created rich applications before they became a thing on the internet. My first job was co-designing the interactive app “Multimedia Rock Encyclopedia", and working on multiple applications, packages, and ads for titles Optimus Pascal Multimedia published solo or in collaboration with DK - Dorling Kindersley our main partner.