Less noise. More meaning. I design what matters.

Graphic design

Pracownia Flores

OLI

sabão

Lumira

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UX/UI

Girache App

RCKiK — redesign ekranu rejestracji krwiodawcy

RCKiK Kraków

OLÁ

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Maria Cisło — portret w domowej bibliotece

Nice to meet you!

I am a multidisciplinary designer. Multidisciplinary? It means I can design just about anything — from a flyer to an app. But… what brings me the most joy and satisfaction is creating brand identities and designing websites.

I combine aesthetics with usability: every project starts with understanding your needs and business goals, and ends only when the result is consistent, professional and truly yours.

What can I help you with?

A memorable mark, designed to work on every medium — from a business card to a storefront sign.
A consistent visual identity: colours, typography and brand materials that hold it all together.
Research, wireframes and interfaces that guide users by the hand — from the first click to the goal.
Design and development of a modern website — clear, fast and tailored to your clients’ needs.
Care for your live website: updates, backups, small changes. Billed as a monthly service.
Templates and graphics that make your profiles look consistent and professional.
Continuous design support for your business — without hiring an in-house designer. A monthly bundle of hours.
Posters, flyers, catalogues and packaging — print-ready, with no surprises.
Dynamic edits for social media — short and long formats with captions and engaging transitions.

Pracownia Flores — sesja wizerunkowa z bukietem

Lumira — vouchery i koperty z miedzianym zapięciem

Pracownia Flores — bukiet polny z linearnym monogramem

Stages of collaboration

Let’s meet

We start by meeting to understand your needs, expectations and business goals in depth. It’s time for a conversation, a brief and gathering all the information needed to create a design perfectly tailored to you.

Analysis

Based on what we gathered, I analyse your needs and the project context. I create an action plan that combines aesthetics with usability and lay the foundations of the project.

Design

I create the first sketches, mockups and visualisations. I run tests and collect feedback to refine and improve the design as we go — always taking your input into account.

Delivery

I wrap up the project by preparing the final deliverables. I support the launch and monitor performance to ensure visual consistency and user satisfaction.

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My clients’ testimonials

Maria created a unique visual identity for my company — a logo and social media templates — that we will certainly keep for a long time.

Łucja DzidekDobre Korepetycje

Maria is focused on the client’s needs, presents different options and works diligently towards a professional result. Communication is smooth and everything can be arranged remotely.

Łukasz MasztalerzShadowtech

Working with Maria is a pleasure. She approaches the client’s vision with openness, recommends solutions and helps you reach the result you’ve been waiting for.

Marta JaroszFoundation for Culture and Women’s Development

I am very happy with our collaboration. Quality is what matters most to me, and I can always be sure I will get it. I honestly recommend her! 😉

Piotr HadamCapitalDay Studio

Maria showed true professionalism, incorporating all our comments and suggestions, which resulted in a website perfectly tailored to our needs. Her commitment and the time she dedicated made the whole collaboration smooth and effective. I wholeheartedly recommend Maria to anyone looking for a reliable and creative web designer.

Piotr CybulaPC Partner

I really value working with Maria :) She is punctual, responsive, always answers our requests and shows a lot of patience — which, when working with a small NGO like ours, is sometimes much needed :) She is creative and always presents 2–3 ideas, of which we usually develop one — the one that best fits the theme of the poster. HIGHLY recommended!

Izabela SalataNaPro Plus

I highly recommend working with Maria. Everything was done quickly, professionally and with great care for the final result :)

Dominika SzczudłoCoaching

Super smooth logo design process. Very good and fast communication. Warmly recommended.

Marta GrzegorczykPhotography

Izabela SalataNaPro Plus

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Graphic projects

Scope

Logo · Branding · Print

Projects

6 selected works

Years

2022 — 2026

Lumira

OLI

sabão

Pracownia Flores

UX/UI projects

Scope

Websites · Apps · Design systems

Projects

5 selected works

Years

2022 — 2026

Girache App

RCKiK — ekran rejestracji w punkcie krwiodawstwa

RCKiK Kraków

OLÁ

PC Partner

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Lumira

Client

Lumira Beauty & Laser Clinic

Scope

Logo + branding

Lumira is a beauty & laser clinic that needed an identity combining medical professionalism with warmth and closeness. The heart of the brand is a serif logotype with an “L” monogram surrounded by a circular descriptor — elegant when embossed on paper and legible at small sizes on social media.

The palette grows out of skin tones: from cream and apricot to sun-kissed terracotta and deep brown. Thanks to this, every piece — a voucher, a post or packaging — looks natural and consistent, regardless of the medium.

Lumira — logotyp na fotografii liści magnolii

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OLI

Client

OLI — natural cosmetics

Scope

Logo + branding

OLI is a brand of natural, olive-based hair cosmetics. I built the mark from lowercase letters, fitting an olive leaf into the letter “o” — the logo works equally well embossed on bark, printed on a label, or in motion.

The palette comes straight from an olive grove: sunny yellow, olive green and the amber of apothecary glass. The system covered packaging (shampoo, conditioner), stickers and brand materials.

OLI — opakowanie odżywki i bursztynowa butelka

OLI — szampon do włosów normalnych na drewnianej desce

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sabão

Client

sabão

Scope

Logo + branding

sabão is a brand of natural body and hand soaps. The heart of the identity is a floral mandala monogram paired with a light serif logotype — the mark feels equally at home on a label, printed on tote bags, or embroidered on fabric.

The palette is built on deep violet complemented by pastels and natural beiges, while the fragrance variants (vanilla, coconut, mango) are differentiated by subtle label colours.

sabão — mydła vanilla, coconut i mango w etykietach

sabão — torby zakupowe w liliowym, miętowym i piaskowym

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Pracownia Flores

Client

Pracownia Flores — floral studio

Scope

Logo + branding

Pracownia Flores is an intimate floral studio. I built the identity around an elegant serif logotype with a decorative “F” initial that also works on its own — as a monogram it marks business cards, social media and small applications.

The palette grows straight from the flowers: burgundy and powder pink meet a range of greens — from deep bottle green to light olive — all tied together by a calm cream. Linear monograms woven into the photo shoots connect photography with the identity system.

Pracownia Flores — monogram F na ścianie kwiatów

Pracownia Flores — wizytówki w różu i burgundzie

Pracownia Flores — kompozycja z monogramem na oliwkowym tle

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Girache App

How to motivate remote-working parents to care about good posture? One factor that changes everything.

My role

UX/UI Designer

Team

4 people

Duration

1 year

Project type

Final project of the UX & Product Design postgraduate programme, AGH University

Tools

Miro, Figma, Google Meets

Imagine a family working from home. Actually, you don’t have to imagine it — many of us live this way. Parents hunched over laptops, barely finding time for themselves between duties, kids running around, shouting and crying. Backs ache, motivation drops, and everyday life becomes a challenge.

Problem and context

The problem addressed by our technology partner — Girache — is the phenomenon of Tech Neck: recurring headaches, neck and back pain, and sore, stiff shoulders resulting from the habit of using mobile devices for hours in a hunched position.

The partner’s solution is a wearable device worn on the neck, paired with a dedicated app. It works in real time, detecting neck deviations and notifying the user to straighten up with a vibration.

Free is a fair price, but…

The project partner noticed that despite providing free devices and apps, users struggle to use the posture-support system regularly. They know the problem matters and they have the tools, but that is still not enough to make them build healthy habits.

My contribution

As a UX/UI Designer in a team of four, I was responsible for user research, needs analysis, concept development, prototyping and usability testing. What I was really looking forward to, though, were the ideation and design stages — where I feel I thrive the most.

Solution

Our goal was to answer a hard question: how to motivate people to care about healthy posture. We decided to focus on the least catered-for group — remote-working parents. Our mobile app supports the health of remote-working parents by engaging the whole family in building healthy posture habits.

Research process — discovering real needs

0%of human behaviour is habitual

0%of Poles suffer from back pain

0%of remote workers complain of back pain

Desk research — key findings

95% of human behaviour is habitual — often tied to specific contexts: the place, the time or the people around us,
a supportive partner or community helps build habits,
the WHO recommends at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week,
23% of remote workers feel pain constantly, and 46% suppress it, reaching for painkillers more often.

User research — remote workers

We conducted 12 in-depth interviews with observation, focusing on: a typical remote-work day, pain complaints, employer support and benefits usage, physical activity, and the perception of posture-correction devices.

Respondents’ problems:

no ergonomic workstations at home,
back pain,
difficulty staying motivated to exercise,
trouble fitting health time into the family schedule.

Research conclusions

Remote workers turned out to be a very diverse group, but all of them struggled with posture problems caused by the lack of ergonomic workstations. Everyone knows how important good posture is, but they lack motivation and time. Good posture is not just about the neck — it’s a lifestyle.

Jobs-to-be-done

We analysed users’ diverse needs and defined the main jobs-to-be-done: building healthy posture habits, increasing daily physical activity, learning about healthy posture, and finding a supportive local community.

Girache App — mapowanie cech respondentów

Trait mapping — 3 key personas

Brave Daria

A parent in a remote-work environment. Motivation: educating herself and her children. Main challenge: fitting health time into the family schedule.

Standard Annie

A remote worker with little experience. Motivation: preventing health problems. Goals: exercise more, keep an ergonomic setup. Frustrations: declining fitness, an aching back.

Active Alex

A physically active IT professional. Motivation: staying fit and young. Needs regular activity and competition. Highly self-organised.

“This will sound silly, but I think I’ve simply gotten out of the habit of walking.”Brave Daria

These are the people who need support…

We checked what others offer. Workout apps, habit builders, ergonomic gadgets — the choice was wide, but none of them engaged the whole family. That was our opportunity!

Competitive analysis showed us that the needs of the primary persona (Annie) are already fairly well served, and the market is dominated by a nearly identical device that succeeded in the US. So we decided to focus on a less popular niche — remote-working parents who combine caring for small children with household duties (Daria).

How do we want to help?

Key differentiators from the competition: involving children in the exercise process, habit building as a family activity, a safe community that respects parents’ constraints, and education tailored to different experience levels.

We wanted posture care to be a pleasure and a family activity, not an unpleasant chore. We created an app that engages the whole family.

Design process

We started by mapping needs and prioritising features along two axes: family engagement i impact on posture. Features tied to the Girache device and the expert role were moved to the premium version — we didn’t want the lack of a device to stand in the way of working on one’s health.

MVP scope — key features

Task of the day — a daily, few-minute workout strengthening the muscles responsible for good posture,
Step counter — a daily step goal as the basic way to grow your points balance,
Rewards — ergonomic gadgets and mascots redeemable once you collect enough points,
Community — a space for interaction and finding local exercise groups,
Knowledge zone — educational content matched to personas through a preference test.

We designed a system of three difficulty modes: easy (Daria — slow difficulty progression, focus on education and family activities), medium (Annie — dynamic difficulty progression, focus on looks and ergonomics) and advanced (Alex — self-selected level, leaderboards, sports challenges).

Onboarding

Onboarding welcomes the user, explains the goal (healthy posture for the family) and lets them choose a usage context. The user then creates an account (optionally a family one), takes a mini preference test that matches a difficulty mode, and sets their first step goal with reminders.

Doing exercises and claiming rewards

The flow starts from a notification or a home-screen widget, leading to a screen with the task name, duration and a visual instruction. On start, a timer with a rep counter kicks in. The whole flow is as simple as possible — open, do it, enjoy, come back tomorrow — building a habit without pressure. After collecting enough points, the user claims a reward.

Usability testing

We tested the app with real users. We made a few mistakes… It turned out the home screen was unclear and the step counter confusing. We redesigned the interface and rewrote the error messages.

An example of unpredictable behaviour: one respondent, seeing the step count and goal percentage on the widget… calculated her daily step goal herself instead of tapping into the widget.

Final steps

We built an interactive prototype covering the main MVP path, registration with the preference test, the family account, community features and changing the daily step goal. Users praised the app’s simplicity and family-oriented character.

Did all of this make sense?

We defined a market niche: remote-working parents — the group least served by the competition,
We created a unique approach: engaging the whole family in building healthy habits,
We designed a scalable solution: an MVP that can grow into a premium version,
We validated the concept: usability tests confirmed the need and the direction of development.

Business potential and the future

We considered monetisation models: a free ad-supported version, premium with the Girache device, partnerships with ergonomic-gadget companies and collaboration with specialists. The project partner was interested in developing the app further and confirmed the commercial potential of the solution. On the roadmap: device compatibility, a patient account with physiotherapy monitoring, a teen account and extended progress analytics.

Reflections and learnings

Understanding the user is fundamental — without research there is no good design. Iterations are key — testing reveals real problems and inspires change. Simplicity wins — the best solutions are simple and intuitive. Family fun is the future — engaging the whole family delivers real value. What would I do differently? Bring usability testing in earlier, put more weight on quantitative research and prototype assumptions faster.

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RCKiK Kraków

Blood donor check-in in a new light — a redesign of the self-service registration screen at a blood donation centre.

My role

UX/UI Designer — personal project

Scope

UX audit, user flow, screen design

Context

Regional Blood Donation and Blood Treatment Centre in Kraków

As a regular blood donor, I repeatedly faced an unintuitive code-registration screen at the Regional Blood Donation Centre in Kraków. Every visit required going through this process — I noticed my own frustration and that of other people queuing. I decided to analyse and improve this key element of the blood donation journey.

About the screen

The screen at the donation centre verifies your registration by entering a code received in the e-mail confirming your appointment. It is the first experience with the self-service system at RCKiK Kraków and is crucial for smooth donor check-in.

Problem

The original interface was unclear, with poorly labelled fields, insufficient error feedback and button placement unsuited to a large screen. Visual elements (such as the system name in red) caused unnecessary anxiety, and the user flow was especially difficult for older people.

Solution

I developed a series of new screens that are intuitive, adapted to a large display, legible regardless of the user’s age, and free of the issues above. I focused on ergonomics, clarity of messaging and minimising unnecessary visual stressors.

My process

I started with a UX audit. The design work began with analysing my own experience and observing other users. I then collected the most common pain points and turned them into a detailed user flow. Further iterations included tests on mockups and comparison with best practices from self-service devices such as InPost lockers.

UX audit

Pain points

no immediate, clear error feedback,
unintuitive button logic on a large screen,
overly intense use of red,
no alternative support for people without a code,
poor legibility and insufficient text contrast.

As a blood donor, I want to enter my registration code quickly and stress-free and immediately know whether it is correct, without having to look for help — so I can get through the process smoothly and donate blood.User story

Ideation

Inspiration came from simple parcel-locker kiosks, ergonomic ATM solutions and conversations with other users of the RCKiK system. I focused on minimising text, making buttons as large and logical as possible, and providing clear alternative paths.

Problems and changes along the way

Testing revealed that low text contrast and overly intense reds caused unnecessary stress. I introduced subtler error colours, increased text contrast, improved the active-field animations and refined the alternative messages.

Solutions

code fields split into single digits with active highlighting,
a clear error message above the code field with a red border — instead of distractions across the whole screen,
large, ergonomic “Confirm” and “Back” buttons, clearly separated from each other,
a hint: “No code? Ask at the reception desk”,
a disabled “Confirm” button until the code is fully entered.

What did I learn?

This project confirmed that even a simple screen at a key service point can significantly shape the user experience. Building on my own needs and research, I learned that empathy, testing with real users and large-screen ergonomics bring measurable improvements in satisfaction. Prioritising legibility and clear system feedback is the foundation of effective communication in public spaces.

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OLÁ

A website for a brand of handmade Portuguese azulejo tiles. A project awarded with distinction!

Course

Digital Designer by Design Practice

PC Partner

A redesign of an accounting firm’s website with a new generation of clients in mind.

Client

PC Partner — accounting services firm, since 1995

Scope

Website redesign, UX/UI, information architecture

About the company

PC Partner is an accounting services firm operating since 1995, offering finance and accounting services. The company has decades of experience, but its online image did not communicate that at all.

Project goal

The goal was to create a modern, clear and credible website that attracts younger entrepreneurs, builds trust in the firm, clearly communicates the offer and makes contact easy.

After my first visit to the old website I had one impression: time had stopped here.

Problems

no responsiveness,
weak visual hierarchy and legibility,
an outdated look,
unclear interactive elements,
no clear CTAs,
no trust-building elements.

Information architecture

One of the key problems was an overgrown, confusing service offer: originally split into 8 categories in which users quickly got lost, not understanding the differences between services.

Design decision: simplify the structure and divide the offer into 4 main, understandable categories described in the language of benefits, not accounting definitions.

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Design process

Analysis: analysing the existing site, identifying UX and UI problems, talking with the owner about the target group and expectations.

Design: designing a responsive layout from scratch, working on content hierarchy, consciously shortening and simplifying the copy (“too much text!” was a frequent note along the way).

Iterations: the project evolved iteratively — along the way we reduced the amount of content, refined the offer and improved the messaging for user comprehension.

Usability testing

The most frequent problem: still too much text → the copy was shortened and simplified even further.

PC Partner — wnioski z testów użyteczności

Final result

The project ended with the client’s full approval and the feeling that the website finally reflects the quality of the services, reaches a younger audience and builds a professional, modern image.

Changes

responsive design from the ground up,
improved contrast and font sizes,
a simplified, clear offer,
a distinct hero section and navigation,
consistent visual aesthetics,
larger, legible buttons (better accessibility),
trust-building elements: photos, a profile of the owner, more visible contact details.

Takeaways & learnings

Working with a friend can be a challenge — it requires assertiveness and clear reasoning behind design decisions. Simplicity always beats content overload. WordPress can be… demanding 😉. Iterations and feedback are key to good UX.

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