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Ula Augustyniak – Senior Product Designer

Ula Augustyniak

Senior Product Designer

at Boldare - Product Design and Development Company

ArticleCombining business goals with user needs — meet our Product Designers

Combining business goals with user needs — meet our Product Designers

Why is it extraordinary to be a Product Designer at Boldare? What are the biggest challenges of this role? How can you grow and fulfill your career path in this position? Learn from the experience of one of our seniors.

ArticleWhat is skeuomorphic design and why don't we see it so often anymore?

What is skeuomorphic design and why don't we see it so often anymore?

When you are saving a file, you click on an icon of a floppy disk. This, in the simplest terms, is just one example of skeuomorphic design - a style where real-world objects are translated into digital interfaces. In this article we will tell you more about what it is and when to use it along with our view on how it fits with modern design trends.

ArticleWhat pirates and their metrics have to do with measuring success?

What pirates and their metrics have to do with measuring success?

Achieving product-market fit is a key milestone for any digital product. The question is, how do you know when you have it? The answer is pirate metrics – measuring the right things to ensure your product’s development brings it to a growing number of users. Read on to find out what pirate metrics are and how you can use them to get an accurate read on product-market fit.

ArticleProduct-Market Fit metrics - is your product something you can brag about?

Product-Market Fit metrics - is your product something you can brag about?

Are you a digital product owner wondering if your product will ever achieve market success? If so, you are in the right place! In this article, we'll go over our favorite metrics for assessing whether or not your product has reached its optimal level of customer satisfaction and engagement – AKA 'product-market fit'. Read on to learn about the product-market fit metrics that we use at Boldare, along with some of our favorite examples.

ArticleUsability testing - what is it? Methods, examples & types

Usability testing - what is it? Methods, examples & types

Usability testing is one of the most valuable tools when it comes to developing great UX – both in the case of building new products from scratch and when improving the user experience of an existing application. In this article, we present various methods, examples and types of usability testing.

ArticleVoice chart: a tool to keep all the rules in one place

Voice chart: a tool to keep all the rules in one place

How can you write understandable text for users of your digital product? How best to keep it aligned with your other branding materials and products? The answer is: use a voice chart. Read on to learn what it is and how to use it to ensure branding consistency.

ArticleWhat is UX writing and why is it important?

What is UX writing and why is it important?

Written texts are an essential part of the user’s interaction with a digital product. They are the link between the human brain and the electronic device. And between those two stands the art and science of UX writing. Read on to find out more about UX writing - what it is and how to tell good writing from bad.

ArticleMeet the Product-Market Fit team at Boldare

Meet the Product-Market Fit team at Boldare

What are the duties of the Product-Market Fit team at Boldare? What kind of ups and downs do they face in their work? If you want to know the answers, read this conversation with Ula Augustyniak - Senior Product Designer and member of the Product-Market Fit team.

ArticleEverything you should know about user testing

Everything you should know about user testing

If the user experience is critically important to a digital product’s success (it is!) then user experience testing is an essential part of the development process. This article uses Boldare’s experience in user testing software in development to bring you the essentials, including the different types of user testing commonly available and the user testing tools that we deploy as part of our lean and agile processes.

ArticleDesign system - boosting your software development

Design system - boosting your software development

Incorporating design thinking within your digital products makes it easier, faster and cheaper to develop software at various levels of maturity. It’s like building a cool car with Lego bricks: you know what to do, and you know where each part belongs. You take element after element and connect them to build the thing you’re aiming for. The tricky part is that you need to first create each brick and make sure that it will fit. But this is our part in the process.