The Policygenius story goes as follows: back in the day, two McKinsey consultants were advising insurers on growth and marketing strategies. They found a repetitive pattern: the insurers didn’t have a clue how to engage with customers online. So they decided to start their own company to tackle that challenge.

Several years of UX experience - in core-banking in a global bank and the fintech industry in both London and Poland - led me to create this list. The entries below are absolute must-haves when it comes to fintech products.

When your company identification has aged a bit (or if it was never a good fit to begin with), when your website doesn’t communicate what your business is all about, when the visual communication with your customers is not cohesive - it might be time to do a redesign.

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned throughout my career is that there’s no such thing as a “complete”, all-round, full-stack, genius designer. Design is a collaborative sport, so the question is: how to collaborate in a smart and efficient way when multiple people work remotely on the same files? In Netguru, it’s a challenge we face every day as a 30+ strong team, often working remotely in pairs or small groups. We create our designs in Sketch, so we took a closer look at tools that we can integrate with Sketch to make our collaborative efforts more efficient.

Google’s Design Sprint methodology is an amazing tool. At Netguru, we used it as a starting point for developing our internal methodology. We established a really strong process to offer our clients a comprehensive tool that can solve many real problems.

There are some truly brilliant and original transport and logistics companies operating around the world today – and many of them have sprung out of Europe’s number one tech hub of Berlin. Today, we want to give a big shout-out to some of these companies and show our appreciation of what they’re doing. The ones listed below are truly world-class, innovative, and are pressing forward with some of the most disruptive transport and logistics solutions that you’re likely to find anywhere in the world. Let’s take a look…

1.7 million residents, more than 22 thousand clerks, one city and an infinite amount of public data. Hundreds of codependent interests, competing needs and ideas to satisfy them. How to select the ones that can genuinely improve lives in the metropolis?

When developing a product, startup founders and product owners have to face many decisions about its shape. How to evaluate which of them are good and which can bear a detrimental impact on the product's performance? One of the methods of doing this is a UX review, during which the product undergoes a comprehensive analysis of user experience and business goals. Take a look at how the UX review helped one of our clients, whym, decide on which direction they should take.

Product Design Sprint helped many of our clients make their products successful and reduce the risk associated with bringing a new product, service or feature to the market. They confirmed PDS has the power to streamline processes and increase efficiency. We didn't want to go barefoot like the proverbial shoemaker's child, so we decided to run PDS internally.

A trip to IKEA is like going through all the future homes you want to have (but probably won’t, because let’s be honest - no one can keep their space that tidy and artfully arranged). It’s scenography, all the more convincing for its theatricality. You go through these tiny rooms that represent people’s lives and it’s easy to imagine yourself living there, smiling, enjoying time spent with your close ones. Why is this only true for the offline experience?

I want to help you not to fail. I respect you might have your vision and you are confident it is good. Your product or development team respects that as well. There is a chance you are a genius in the making, and your business idea will change the world. Or you’re not and you just don’t know it. This is why I’m being honest and why I want to tell you not to rely on your gut and vision all the time. You don’t have to learn from your own mistakes and this is how to avoid some of the most popular ones.

Sketch is one of the best UI design tools at the moment. It is the first design tool created with the intent to satisfy the sublime needs of product designers. Many times, Sketch was such a nice surprise that I was amazed how intuitive it is.

Some time ago, I finished my first Product Review report for a client, who is developing a platform for purchasing videos, photos and texts from journalists from all around the world. The essence of a Product Review is the analysis of all the data and metrics collected throughout the development process, as well as a qualitative usability analysis. Thanks to such approach, we are able to find missing features in the client’s app, analyze the client’s outstanding needs and estimate the app’s overall potential. In this article, I will share some tips on how to get through a Product Review process successfully and write reports like a pro.

This is really important.

It is very hard to be perfectly focused on your work throughout the whole day when you work on a creative project. Some time ago, I started searching for a solution on how to overcome obstacles such as procrastination and unfocused work. Eventually, I found a book that changed my life: “The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play” by Neil Fiore. This book has been my how-to-be-productive bible since then. In this article, I’ll share with you the key take-away points from Fiore’s book as well as my personal tips and tricks to improve productivity.

Inbbbox offers a modern, clutter-free experience in Dribbble, the global directory for digital design. We love Dribbble in Netguru and so do millions of people from around the world. We wanted to contribute something back to the community of designers and developers we’re all part of. Download Inbbbox today!  

The success of any app cannot be easily predicted. It is a mixture of various factors. The way it looks, feels, and the moment it appears on the market all have an impact on the end result. One way to make the whole process easier is to design your MVP in base of material design. In this article I’ll have a go at explaining what material design is and why it’s better than other custom solutions. Read on if you fancy exploring the arguments in favour of such an approach.

I’ve been working as a product designer for a while, met dozens of clients and learned a lot. One of the things that I came to understand during the process is that clients and designers sometimes suffer from communication problems, because they have misunderstood their roles. As a consequence, projects cost more than expected, take more time, and their quality is inferior. There is a way to avoid it, though! Read on and learn how to establish and maintain an effective client-designer relationship that will translate into your product’s success.

Remember back when every sci-fi book, TV series and film had a computer that could be operated by voice? The hero simply speaks, and the computer answers (though, it doesn't always give the answer the hero is looking for...). Well, the future is here - and there’s much more to it than you probably thought when you were a kid.

I’ve been a designer since 2007, but designing in UX design agency is not the only thing I do. During the course of an average day at work I ask — and, moreover, answer — many questions. Recently I’ve noticed that one of the most popular is… how to become a designer. That’s why I’ve decided to share with you some details from my true story...