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December 15, 2024·6 min read

How I Got 40+ Teams to Actually Use Our Design System

When I started building a design system for a multi-product platform, I quickly learned that getting teams to adopt it was harder than building it. Here's how we hit 85% adoption.

Patrycja Piotrowska·Senior Product Designer

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November 28, 2024·5 min read

That Time 67% of Our Users Were Leaving (And How We Fixed It)

Our onboarding flow was hemorrhaging users. The data was brutal: only 33% completed setup. Here's how we reduced drop-off by 43% without adding a single new feature.

Patrycja Piotrowska·Senior Product Designer

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October 10, 2024·7 min read

8 Years, 3 Realities: What I Learned Working Solo, in Agencies, and with Vendors

I've been the solo designer, part of an agency team, and the entire design department. Each taught me something completely different about what actually matters in product design.

Patrycja Piotrowska·Senior Product Designer

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September 22, 2024·6 min read

When Users Said Our Dashboard Was "Useless" (And They Were Right)

We built a technically comprehensive analytics dashboard that users hated. Turns out, showing all the data isn't the same as showing useful data. Here's how we fixed it.

Patrycja Piotrowska·Senior Product Designer

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August 5, 2024·5 min read

How We Shipped 3x More Features by Embracing 'Good Enough'

My team was paralyzed by perfectionism. Features sat in design limbo for months. Here's how we reduced design-to-launch time by 65% without sacrificing quality.

Patrycja Piotrowska·Senior Product Designer

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