ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sebastian Janiec

Product Designer

Sebastian Janiec, product designer at CodiLime. Sebastian gained experience in UX design through numerous web and digital product design projects. Sebastian is an expert in the following fields: product design and discovery, product analytics, and UX product management courses and training. He strives to find the golden mean between complex network applications and designing user-friendly interfaces. He takes a data-driven, detail-focused, top-down approach to his design work. Outside of the ‘office’, Sebastian is working on an old fixer-upper, spends time with his family, preferably on day-long walks, and loves to travel.

Sebastian Janiec

Recent posts by Sebastian:

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The guide to digital product design

Making an intuitive and user-friendly digital product is a complex process. It usually includes steps such as market research, ideating, prototyping, validation, and constant development - and teamwork of many months involving many product designers. explore how the design process looks in the digital world, including best practices and recommended tools from our team of product designers.
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Sebastian Janiec

on Feb 23, 2024
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Product design stages: how to make a product modern and accessible

We will show you how to ensure your product design is in line with the necessary accessibility and inclusivity requirements. Read on to discover how to meet the needs of a diverse audience.
Sebastian Janiec

Sebastian Janiec

on Dec 21, 2023
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Top 25 product design tools

Learn how to streamline your work with top product design tools. Find the recommended software for discovery, design, and testing.
Sebastian Janiec

Sebastian Janiec

on Nov 23, 2023
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The power of UX benchmarking in design and development

The market success of your software product depends on the user experience. Excellent user experience means higher user satisfaction, higher retention, increased customer loyalty, and steady income. To ensure a good user experience for your product, consider using UX benchmarking as one of your metrics. In this article, we will mostly focus on UX benchmarking and its key issues. UX benchmarking is a process where with the help of key metrics, you can assess your own product or compare it with competitor products.
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Sebastian Janiec

on Mar 13, 2023
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Esthetic or functional? The essence of product design for network applications [interview]

According to a PLA report, more than 50% of respondents claim that UX for analytics is crucial. It is even more true regarding modern network solutions that require a clear visualization of massive amounts of data that can be utilized by users. Nevertheless, manycompanies still avoid investing their time and money in user experience. Why is that? For the answers to these and more questions, we talked to Sebastian Janiec, a product designer at CodiLime. Read further to learn more about Sebastian’s experience in product design for complex network solutions and his views on creating user experience for networks.
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Multiple authors

on Feb 27, 2023
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How to use the Google HEART framework to set up user-centered metrics

A seamless user experience is essential if you want your software to work effectively and fulfill its business objectives. However, building a user-friendly app or website is only possible with thorough UX research. The larger the organization, the more difficult it can be to collect the data. To meet the needs of large-scale businesses, in 2010, Google UX research experts came up with a perfect way to measure the user experience. They created the HEART framework that specifically targets this kind of measurement.
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Sebastian Janiec

on Oct 7, 2022
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Creating a comprehensive UX for complex network systems

Nowadays, user experience is one of the most crucial things that determines a product’s success. Creating a comprehensive UX for complex network systems is certainly not an easy task but when done well, can be extremely beneficial. Find out all the steps to follow in order to set up the best possible user experience. User experience is essentially how users interact and experience a product, system or service. It encompasses all aspects of the end user’s interaction with the company. Therefore it impacts the entire customer experience which includes any contact users have with the company, involving with the sales representatives, customer support and the product itself.
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Sebastian Janiec

on Aug 24, 2022
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Why is discovery research essential for your product?

One of the biggest mistakes while creating a new software product is neglecting discovery research. This fundamental part of product development can help you understand the market and create a product best-suited to customers' needs. This investigation process gives a deep understanding of what customers want, expect and worry about, therefore it will benefit users, the development team and the growing business. It makes the process of software development so much smoother. Discovery research, also called exploratory or generative research, is an investigation process designed to help understand users' needs.
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Sebastian Janiec

on Aug 17, 2022
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What is a UX Design system — all you need to know

The most rapidly developing organizations that operate online have been changing the way they design digital products. Famous companies like Uber, Airbnb, and others have adopted a comprehensive design system as their design standard. Gathering a collection of design components and a set of guidelines and best practices can help a company to speed up the pace of innovation within the organization. So, what is a design system? Let’s dig into the fundamentals of an effective design system and explain why it’s worth implementing in your business.
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Sebastian Janiec

on Apr 25, 2022
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UX team structure — everything you should know

Nowadays, more and more businesses recognize the value of UX design. The world is increasingly digitized, and companies can no longer offer only good service, they need to offer a good experience too. User research, UX research, and UX design have become critical to company’ssoftware development success. There is a growing demand for UX teams and UX designers who can create better user experiences and, in consequence, better products. Let’s explain what a UX design team is, the UX team structure,what their role is, and how to create successful UX teams.
Sebastian Janiec

Sebastian Janiec

on Mar 31, 2022
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Product discovery — how to start smart with your app development

Developing a new application is quite a challenge. Doing it from scratch requires hours of research, a lot of time spent, and a substantial sum invested. The worst thing you can do is to develop a software product in a hurry – this leads to building an app with some cool features instead of developing a product that will be essential to end-users. To avoid such a situation, you should focus on understanding the users’ needs and requirements thoroughly. This is where product discovery comes in. Let’s take a look at why the product discovery process is such a big deal and dive deeper into each software discovery step you should go through to build a successful application.
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Multiple authors

on Feb 4, 2022
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Usability vs. user experience in network application design

User experience and usability are equally crucial issues in digital product design—although not necessarily at every stage of the software development life cycle. Especially when designing complex solutions and systems for the network industry. This is not as controversial as it sounds. Read on to find out why. Usability is a fundamental rule when designing a functional digital product. Bearing usability in mind, you adjust your product’s design to meet the needs of its target audience. Usability includes factors such as button size, legibility, and the selection of user-friendly contrasts and colors.
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Sebastian Janiec

on Jan 10, 2022
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Data-Driven Design: how to define goals and metrics

What’s measured gets managed. Numbers have an important story to tell’. Whether Peter Drucker said this or not doesn't matter, it's true when designing digital products. Even if product design is often considered an art, it’s data collection that helps to create a better user experience. Web and application design choices should be based on real evidence about the user’s needs and behavior. Let’s explain what data-driven design is, why it is important, and how to define goals and metrics. Data-driven decision making is the process of creating user-friendly software or apps should always be guided by information about what works and what doesn’t.
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Multiple authors

on Dec 9, 2021
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UX trends for 2022

In recent years, our daily lives have increasingly moved to the virtual world. Year after year, the tide of digitalization advances and these days, two of the most important aspects of any digital product are UX and UI. They can raise your product to the highest level or break your business. Understanding changing user preferences and keeping up with all the latest technological developments is crucial if you want your IT business to become a unicorn. Based on our experience and predictions, we are presenting a list of the eight hottest UI and UX trends for 2022.
Sebastian Janiec

Sebastian Janiec

on Nov 8, 2021
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Best UX design and prototyping tools

User experience is one of the most important aspects of product development. The main objective is to create a clear environment for users so they can easily navigate through your product. Every successful app, management system, software, platform, or website has to be accessible to the target end user. Designing such an experience requires not only a great idea but also great presentation; to be able to communicate well with your clients and to channel your ideas into something tangible. Designing a UX prototype, of course, being only the first phase of the whole process; later on you have to seek feedback in order to implement upgrades and fixes.
Sebastian Janiec

Sebastian Janiec

on Oct 26, 2021
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Software product development lifecycle — the UX perspective

We all know that products that really add value and address genuine user needs depend on good design. If a product or app isn’t easy and intuitive to use, it may be destined to fail. How many times have you left a website feeling frustrated, not being able to find the information you need? For sure you have installed apparently useful apps that later turned out to be a real pain to use. The Internet is full of examples of poor user experience. This is why it is crucial to always incorporate design thinking in your software product development lifecycle.
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Multiple authors

on Oct 11, 2021
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User experience in network systems: dos and don’ts

Developing complex network systems dedicated to network professionals is a huge challenge. Well-designed software will make your everyday work faster, easier and more enjoyable. An outdated UX design, on the other hand, can significantly decrease your productivity and result in errors when you’re using the system. If you are planning UX strategy for your product, read our blog post to see what guidelines you should follow. They’ll help you provide the best user experience in network applications and also avoid errors.
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Multiple authors

on May 20, 2020