Background and Approach
Professional Profile
For over a decade, I've designed products across genuinely different, high-stakes domains — from medical device software to industrial data platforms. Each one came with its own regulations, users, and definition of what "getting it wrong" actually costs, and that range is what shaped how I approach new problems today.
In the past four and a half years, I've been at Cognite, an Industrial DataOps company, where I co-design Cognite Data Fusion — with most of my project work centered on oil & gas and chemical refining, some of the most complex operational environments in industry. It means designing for people who need data they can trust, not just see.
"Adventure taught me to look past the obvious route. Design taught me
to look past the obvious problem. People taught me there's always
more underneath."
Practice Areas
Focus Areas
and Expertise
Enterprise UX
Beyond the Standard
I design software for complex, data-heavy platforms, from industrial operations to medical devices, used by companies across the globe. My focus is making dense, high-stakes data usable, trustworthy, and fast to act on, not just visually clean.
I work within strict regulatory standards, including ISO, translating them into concrete product requirements. But standards define the minimum — I stay curious about the dependencies they don't cover, because that's usually where the real design problem lives.
AI-Accelerated Design Process
Stakeholder & Engineering Collaboration
I use AI tools as part of my daily workflow, not as a shortcut. It lets me move from idea to interactive, testable concept fast — shortening the path from concept to real product.
I bring stakeholders into the process continuously and stay involved through implementation, not just at handoff. Good design decisions hold up when they're made close to the people building and using the product.
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My Story and Philosophy
Who I Am?
I started designing before I ever called myself a designer. Long before university, I was already taking on clients: badly paid, often frustrating, sometimes genuinely painful work that taught me more than any course could. I didn't have the language for what I was doing yet, but I had the stubbornness to keep doing it anyway. That determination, to work as a designer no matter what it cost me at the start, has never really left.
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I studied at the University of Ostrava, and later completed a Master of Art degree at the University of Silesia in Poland. Even then, my art rarely stayed purely "artistic" — I kept returning to machines, mechanical structures, engraving pieces built around gears and industrial forms, long before I understood that this fascination would eventually become my career. I still engrave in my free time today. Looking back, it makes sense: I've always been drawn to the point where something technical meets something human — where a machine, a system, or a piece of software stops being just mechanism and starts being something a person has to trust, understand, or feel safe around.
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That's the thread that runs through everything I've done since, from early, difficult client work, to designing medical device software, to the industrial platforms I work on today. The technical discipline never scares me. What I actually care about is what happens at the point where the technical meets the human — because even in the most complex, high-stakes systems, there's always a person on the other side of the screen who needs it to simply make sense.
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I live in Norway now. Outside of work, mountaineering and snowboarding are a real part of who I am, not a weekend hobby I mention for effect. I'm currently learning to surf, drawn to the same feeling water sports and climbing both give me: being fully present, problem-solving in real time, with no room for autopilot. I like traveling to places that aren't the obvious choice, because I believe curiosity and adventure aren't reserved for vacations — they belong in everyday life, and in work, too.
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I'm also proactive about causes I care about. I've taken initiative on several projects supporting women's rights in my own time, because I believe using your skills and energy for something beyond your paycheck matters.
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If there's a mission behind all of this, it's simple: I want to use both: my life experience and professional experience to actually understand people's problems, not just their stated requirements, and to solve them properly. I'm genuinely curious about people, about animals and nature, about science and about what's really going on beneath the surface of things. I think the most technical disciplines need that human curiosity the most, not the least — because the moment real people are involved, technical correctness alone was never going to be enough.