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Does every designer ultimately have to manage people? The IC Path

#73: Career development on the IC path

Jan 30 • Mateusz Litarowicz

Recent posts

Burnout is like Tinder

#72: About spotting red flags leading to burnout in a workplace

Jan 15 • Burnout, Unburdened

Increase your value with systems thinking

#71: Systems thinking is a must for every experienced designer.

Dec 18, 2025 • Mateusz Litarowicz

Maintaining visual consistency has never been easier

#70: How Recraft can help you maintain the consistency of your designs.

Dec 4, 2025 • Fundament

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Product

0 → 1 Product Discovery. On approaching vaguely defined design problems with no data

#69: I was judging week 7 submissions for the "Why before UI" design challenge

Nov 21, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

Visionary work. Part 1: Crafting a vision statement

#67: How to craft an inspiring and ambitious vision statement for your product

Oct 23, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

Objective and Key Results: 101

#61: How to set up meaningful goals and track relevant metrics

Jul 31, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

About Impact. Presenting the Change You've Made Through Your Decisions as a Designer

#55: What to do when you can't directly connect your impact with ROI.

Jun 19, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

Ideate like a pro. Brainstorming and Offline Ideation Week

#50: Cracking complex design problems with your team can be fun!

May 15, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

Career

Does every designer ultimately have to manage people? The IC Path

#73: Career development on the IC path

Jan 30 • Mateusz Litarowicz

Burnout is like Tinder

#72: About spotting red flags leading to burnout in a workplace

Jan 15 • Burnout, Unburdened

Articulating design decisions

#65: About making thoughtful decisions and defending design rationale

Sep 25, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

From Intern to Senior. Part 2: Design process, project scope, tooling, and 1-on-1 meetings at different career stages

#59: What career ladders won’t tell you about differences between various career levels.

Jul 17, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

From Intern to Senior. Part 1: Strategic thinking, engagements, and definition of design at different career stages

#57: What career ladders won’t tell you about differences between various career levels.

Jul 3, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

Ways of Working

Objective and Key Results: 101

#61: How to set up meaningful goals and track relevant metrics

Jul 31, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

An Empathetic Designer

#53: On the importance of empathy in our work and ways to cultivate it within ourselves

Jun 5, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

True partners. Why do designers collaborate horizontally across entire organizations

#51: Cross-functional collaboration is a crucial skill of product designers

May 22, 2025 • Mateusz Litarowicz

Ideate like a pro. Brainstorming and Offline Ideation Week

#50: Cracking complex design problems with your team can be fun!

May 15, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

What makes product trio a product trio

#48: Dispelling misconceptions about the product trio

May 1, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

Opinion

There is legitimately a reason to still use Figma

#38: Prototyping with AI is exciting, but Figma is still breathing.

Feb 20, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

The Beginning and The End of The User Experience

#37: How far is user experience beyond digital?

Feb 13, 2025 • Mateusz Litarowicz

Five Design Phrases That Need to Die

#34: The ketchup bottle meme did not make it to this list.

Jan 23, 2025 • Arkadiusz Radek

Design Education Is Like a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Everyone can design. But not everyone should. That sounds stony, I know. We strive to keep our field as inclusive and open as possible, which is a…

Jul 4, 2024 • Arkadiusz Radek

Design Systems

Implementing Design Systems: Three Different Real Case Studies

Everybody knows that implementing, developing, and maintaining design systems is not easy. Furthermore, it's challenging to identify a single, correct…

May 23, 2024 • Mateusz Litarowicz

Introduction to Design Systems

How do large tech companies create such consistent and polished products? Can design and development teams effectively collaborate on large-scale…

Mar 14, 2024 • Mateusz Litarowicz

Introduction to Design Tokens

Episode 9, in which we discuss the basics of design tokens. Learn what they are and in what scenarios it's worth to implement them.

Feb 15, 2024 • Mateusz Litarowicz

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