Dorota Kempa

Dorota Kempa

UX / UI / Product design in Poland, She, her

About

Im experienced UX/UI designer in the IT services company. The beggining of my journey in the field started as a web designer with html/css/js support. I have graduated with the engineer degree in IT science with specializations in App development and masters degree in Image processing.

Currently I work at ING hubs Poland as a interaction designer creating the strategy and designs from the definition to implementation phase. I'm experienced in diving into complicated IT domains and translating them to modern web expectations.

I help not only with the reaserch and designs, but also I'm passionate about good UX writing, leading users to their goal with seamless narrative.

As a creative soul I'm also passionate about illustration and brand design.

Tools I have experience to work with are

Figma, Axure, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Balsamiq, Matomo, Affinity Designer, HotJar.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Expert Interaction designer at ING Hubs Poland
2020 — Now
Freelance Designer at -

As additional activities I have opportunity for cooperations in different design fields - from UX/UI to brand design.

2021 — 2024
Senior Interaction designer at ING Hubs Poland
Poland

My main responsibilities are

UX from reaserch to designs. I had opportunities to facilitate workshops with international participants, and be a SPOC for complex IT processes.

UI - as a designer for internal systems, I work with ready design systems and guidelines. Having a little to none opportunities to create something unique. But taking part in events like hackathons gives a chance to practice creativity in that area also.

Leading and strategy - being in company for long time I had possibilities to be a leader in guilds and initiatives, where I found myself to feel really comfortable. Clear and open communication is very important to me, just as giving all involved people the sense of control.

Additional graphic support - preparing visually engaging infographics, illustrations and logotypes. The world where all products are internal, creates a specific ecosystem where many fields overlap. Being passionate about creativity, I didn't mind to being asked for help with business presentations, team brand creation or preparing the t-shirt design for company gift to employees.

Mentoring/teaching - we often find ourselves to be a mentor for people who are interested in UX area. Thanks to internal tutorship/learning program, I had opportunities to conduct trainings and practice workshops for people with different lvl of ux knowledge.

2018 — 2021
UX designer at ING Hubs Poland

Working with internal application teams on delivering the best experiences for their users. Conducting tests, doing reaserch, facilitating workshops. Building processes and designing application.

I often worked as visual coder implementing designs in HTML&CSS, JS in frameworks like .NET, Angular or Lit-HTML. (only design vise)

2012 — 2014
Web designer at Czestkom
Poland

I was responsible for gathering requirements with clients and creating web designs for local small companies. I was working with Adobe Creative Suite.

I implemented designed pages in Joomla CMS systems, using PHP, JS, HTML&CSS coding.

Education

2013 — 2015
Masters at Częstochowa University of Technology
Częstochowa, Poland

Specialty in Graphic design and image Processing.

I've workwd with Microsoft mobile development, 3d Image design in Blender tool, we learned to process images in Matlab software.

As my Masters thesis I worked on explaining the possibilities to use 3D image processing to visualize 2D brand designs.

2010 — 2013
Engineer at Częstochowa University of Technology
Częstochowa, Poland

Specialty in Internet applications development. We got to know basics in Computer science, IT, mobile app development, web design and programming, along with database management.