About me in a nutshell
My name is Lukasz Swigowski and I am a Product Designer and Web Developer based in Edinburgh. I have been designing and creating web products more than years. I hold a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours degree in Web Technologies and I am currently UI Lead at NES Digital Service Scotland1 in Edinburgh. previously UI/UX Designer at Student Loans Company2.
Brands and services I worked with
User Experience
Analyzing and evaluating users' needs and behaviours. Designing and prototyping custom functional solutions.
User Interface
Converting all ideas and concepts into pixels, vectors, things you can click or touch.
Web Development
Using modern technologies to develop and enhance requirements. Making code compatible with standards.
Resources and tools
I'd like to share with you some of my resources. This would be helpful for your planning, controlling your processes and creating workshops. Files are mostly under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)3 licence.
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Design specification
Template to describe details of the project for designers and developers.
(87KB -.docx Word document)
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Empathy map
Creating empathy map for different user groups.
(76KB - .pdf file)
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Red Route Analysis
Identify which tasks are used frequently and by the largest audience.
(56KB - .pdf file)
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Persona sheet
Creating quick personas. Ideal resource for the workshops.
(112KB - .pdf file)
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MoSCoW sheet
Printable sheet to prioritize your requirements.
(82KB - .pdf file)
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Paper for designers
Gridded and doted paper sheets ready to print. Standard and whitelines
(287KB - .zip file)
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Design Process
Everybody knows how important design and development process is. Every single project needs unique and reliable process to achieve planned goals. I use Agile principles and values4 to make entire process more effective. I practice Design Thinking, Scrum, Kanban, LeanUX or Test-driven Development as my primary framework
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1. Understand
2. Create
3. Deliver
Empathize
Understanding of the problem
1:1 interviews
Diary studies
Surveys
Define
Analyzing observations and synthesizing them
Card sorting
Empathy mapping
Journey mapping
Ideate
Generating ideas and concepts
Architecture
User Stories
Design principles
Prototype
Producing specific features of the product
Wireframes
Prototypes
Interactions
Test
Checking the complete product
A/B testing
Usability testing
Expert review
Iteration
TL;DR
[ 1 ] NES Digital Service (NDS) was set up by the Scottish Government in June 2018, following the publication of the Digital Health and Care Strategy for Scotland. https://nds.nes.digital [ ↵ Go back ]
[ 2 ] Student Loans Company is a non-profit making government-owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK. SLC is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Education. https://www.gov.uk/slc [ ↵ Go back ]
[ 3 ] Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) - you can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and/or remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 [ ↵ Go back ]
[ 4 ] The four core values and 12 principles of Agile software development is stated by the (good old) Agile Manifesto. https://agilemanifesto.org [ ↵ Go back ]