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SymbioticDesign.
Design first, in the age of AI.
I design visual materials for launches and events, build product websites and create AI tools for tasks your team does regularly.
How we can work together
Explore servicesStart with one workflow
Bring a task your team repeats. We’ll agree what to test and build a prototype around your sources and rules.
See what the pilot involvesSelected work
How I use AI to explore visual directions, challenge assumptions and make sense of research.
i-Rays · Midjourney and Figma
Five opening concepts for i-Rays
- Starting point
- An observability platform for IBM i needed a credible introduction. At the time, we had no product screens ready to publish.
- Work with AI
- I used Midjourney to explore scenes with people, portraits and technical visuals. In Figma we compared five opening concepts.
- Design decision
- We developed the concept with an operator and an anomaly timeline. It showed who uses the tool and what signal they see.
aleksander.pro · Positioning
A portfolio organised around decisions
- Starting point
- My previous portfolio was organised around a list of completed projects.
- Work with AI
- In conversations with AI, I tested different answers to what a client gets when we work together.
- Design decision
- I chose the Symbiotic Designer positioning. The project stories now explain the decisions I made and why.
UX audit · Research synthesis
From transcripts to a prototype change
- Starting point
- After the first three usability sessions, I had transcripts and a short window to prepare the next prototype.
- Work with AI
- The agent worked with project context and pulled out recurring friction. One issue was duplicate entry points for campaigns.
- Design decision
- I verified the finding and made the flow change myself in Figma.
A symbiotic designer’s practice
Rekon Intelligence.
Symbiotic Designer OS is the operating system for my work with AI. I build it alongside custom skills for research, design and delivery planning. It gives those skills project context, and I check their output before making a decision.
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My system for working with AI
Symbiotic Designer OS.
I built a workspace that brings project knowledge, AI skills and decision rules together. Each new session starts with current sources, the reasoning behind earlier choices and a clear next step.
Building an AI workspace
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Goal and boundaries
I build a workspace for research and design. It needs a shared knowledge base, a way to select skills and a record of decisions across sessions.
Goal · AI boundaries · Criteria
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Load the context
I start with the brief, sources and earlier decisions. I specify what should come back for review.
Brief · Sources · Expected output
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Give each skill a task
A research skill organises sources, a design skill develops options and a planning skill turns the chosen direction into next steps.
Research · Options · Delivery plan
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Review and choose
I check what supports a recommendation. If the evidence is thin, I know what to verify before choosing a direction.
Evidence · Risk · Decision
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Carry the work into the next session
I record the choice, its reasoning and the next action. The next session starts from those decisions.
Decisions · Rationale · Next step
Michał Aleksander / experience
In UX since 2009.
I bring experience in usability research, leading a UX team and designing products to Symbiotic Designer OS. My work spans online shops and booking services through to advertising platforms.
See my career history on LinkedIn-
E-commerce
Usability research and shopping journey design.
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E-learning
Leading a UX team, researching and designing educational products.
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Online travel
Booking journeys for an international travel service.
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Marketplaces
Designing buyer journeys for a classifieds platform across several markets.
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Construction and field service
Research and SaaS app design for crews working in the field.
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AdTech
Complex B2B platforms, design systems and rules for working with AI.
I started working in e-commerce in 2005. The dates mark the start of selected design roles.
Skills I build
See how the skills workResearch Workbench
Chooses research methods, evaluates sources and separates observations from conclusions.
Output: a research plan or synthesis backed by evidence.
UX Architecture
Maps information and interaction from the user’s goal to the outcome.
Output: a map of the journey and interface states.
Design Direction
Chooses composition, typography, imagery and motion to suit the project and brand.
Output: a visual direction and the brief behind it.
Product + Delivery
Turns a goal into tasks, dependencies and a plan that fits the team’s capacity.
Output: a delivery plan and acceptance criteria.
Design Conference Research
Finds conference material and connects relevant talks to a design decision.
Output: quotes checked against the original and links to sources.
Methods in practice.
Three design decisions from Rekon projects.
Information architecture
From the street to the source.
The map shows where each project is and what stage it has reached. Dates and source documents sit in the detail panel for each map marker.
Miasto z bliska
Visual exploration with AI
The operator’s point of view.
We compared five opening concepts. The chosen scene shows the operator at work alongside an example of anomaly detection.
i-Rays / five opening concepts
Prototype comparison
Can you tell the time at a glance?
I compared seven watch-face concepts, including after an activity and with missing readings. I checked the simplified always-on display in the simulator.
ORBIT / from multisport to themed collectionsStudio notes
All essays on Substack
Human Speed
The pace at which people can understand a decision and influence what gets built, even when AI speeds up the design.
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Design Cortex
A way of working that gives AI product rules and context and lets the team inspect the result and decide what to do with it.
Read on Substack