Mikolaj Dobrucki is a Staff Product Designer based in Krakow with 11 years of experience blending thoughtful product design with front-end engineering. He’s known for improving developer-facing UIs and shipping polished visual systems, with notable open-source contributions to Sanity Studio’s component and accessibility refinements and an icon library demo for ikonate. His career spans senior roles at Sanity and Snowflake and leadership at Castle, where he applies systems thinking to complex interfaces. Trained with an MSc in Interaction Design and a BA in Product Design, he pairs research-informed design with hands-on code changes that reduce friction for both users and builders. An organizer and programme council member for WaysConf, he brings community-building and mentorship into his product work.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Interaction Design, Master of Science (MSc) Interaction Design at Malmö University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Product Design, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Product Design at Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie
Contributions:4 releases, 76 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Mikolaj primarily focused on creating a demo environment for the "ikonate" icon library. They added an HTML demo file, including a basic structure and styles to display the icons. The user also updated the HTML generation script and fixed sprite paths, indicating work on integrating the icon library into a web environment. Furthermore, the user updated template files and removed unnecessary code within the scripts, contributing to cleaner and more functional code.
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:31 reviews, 132 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mikolaj primarily contributed to the Sanity Studio's UI, focusing on component improvements and bug fixes. Their work involved modifying and refining existing UI components, addressing spacing and alignment issues in various form elements, and improving the visual aspects of the user interface. They also implemented changes related to focus effects and overall visual consistency across multiple components.
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Mikolaj Dobrucki - Staff Product Designer at WaysConf