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Eight worlds
of experience.
One living core.

I'm Daniel Grzeszczak. Product designer, strategist, researcher and product owner in one. Everything a product needs to work. Eight industries shaped me over 15+ years. I am the 9th pipe: the one that connects them into one product.

    08 experience streams → 09 human core

    The value of connection

    Not separate chapters.
    A connected whole.

    The value isn't in knowing one world. It's in connecting what different worlds can teach us.

    Experience overlaps across industries. The years are not a sum; they are different ways of seeing the same complexity.

    15+years
    8industries
    4,000+user interviews
    Who I am / The Core
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    08 experience streams → 09 human coreNot separate chapters. A connected whole.
    03 / The Perspective

    Every product is a home renovation.

    As many residents, as many opinions. Someone has to hold the plan.

    Foundations before finishes
    Walls before wallpaper01

    Discovery before delivery.

    The problem, the North Star metric and the information architecture are set before a single screen ships. Polishing a broken flow only adds expensive debt.

    Every resident has a say02

    Stakeholders aligned, not appeased.

    Users, business, legal and engineering pull in different directions. I make the trade-offs explicit and turn them into one prioritised roadmap.

    Sketch before you build03

    Prototype, validate, then commit.

    AI-native prototyping lets me test options with real users in days, not sprints, before engineering writes a line of code.

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