Marzena J. Miszczak
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Diligent 
Leading product design strategy for governance and compliance applications, shaping complex, document-heavy workflows used by 25,000+ organisations worldwide.

Challenge
Organisations operating globally must navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape, managing multiple regulations, standards, and industry-specific compliance requirements across jurisdictions. The challenge was to support these evolving demands while maintaining integrated, scalable, and agile risk-management product that users could trust and operate efficiently.
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Role
Director of Product Design
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Scope
20+ Designers  ·  Areas Leaders & ICs  ·  ​ Multiple Products
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Impact & Outcomes
  • Led the modernisation of ~80% of the product experience, improving consistency, usability, and long-term scalability across core products.
  • Increased overall user satisfaction by delivering clearer, more intuitive experiences across critical product journeys.
  • Improved accessibility and cross-device support, ensuring reliable use across desktop, tablet, and mobile environments.
  • Scaled and coached a distributed design teams, maintaining 95%+ retention during periods of growth and change.
  • Strengthened cross-functional delivery with Product and Engineering, improving predictability and alignment across multi-quarter initiatives.
Full case study available upon request
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Talkative 
Leading UX research that shaped how multilingual families interact with voice technology, uncovering the cultural and linguistic nuances that traditional lab studies miss.

Challenge
As voice technologies expand globally, products must support users across languages, cultures, and contexts. The challenge was to understand how multilingual households interact with conversational interfaces in everyday settings, and to translate these insights into inclusive, scalable design recommendations.
Role 
UX Researcher
Scope
Field research in real-world settings  ·  Multilingual user behaviour  · ​ Voice and conversational interaction design
Impact & Outcomes 
  • Conducted in-depth field research within multilingual households to understand real-world usage of voice interfaces.
  • Identified key linguistic, cultural, and contextual patterns affecting trust, usability, and adoption of voice technology.
  • Developed personas and behavioural insights that informed more inclusive and accessible conversational design.
  • Translated research findings into clear design recommendations to support global scalability of voice-enabled products.
  • Contributed to early thinking around human-centred AI and conversational interaction models.
Full case study available upon request
Shieldhub 
Designing a portable verification platform that turned fragmented, manual background checks into a trusted, shareable credential system - saving contractors weeks of redundant paperwork and giving organisations confidence in compliance.

Challenge
Vendors and independent contractors are repeatedly asked to prove eligibility and compliance across different clients and networks. Existing background-check processes are fragmented, manual, and costly, creating friction for individuals and inefficiencies for organisations. The challenge was to design a standardised, reusable, and trusted verification experience that allowed credentials to be securely shared, continuously updated, and easily validated across multiple client networks.
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Role
Product Design Lead
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Scope
Early product and experience definition  ·  Visual system for trust and credibility  ·  High-fidelity prototyping  · ​ User validation
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Impact & Outcomes
  • Defined the end-to-end product experience for a compliance application enabling contractors to securely manage and share verified background checks.
  • Established a trust-focused visual system, supporting credibility and confidence in a compliance-sensitive domain.
  • Translated complex regulatory requirements into clear, user-centred flows, reducing ambiguity and manual effort for both users and organisations.
  • Helped lay the foundation for a networked verification model, enabling discoverability and secure sharing.
  • Used high-fidelity prototyping and user validation to align stakeholders, accelerate decisions, and de-risk early product direction.
Full case study available upon request
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DiversitUp
Leading the design of an inclusion-focused service aimed at supporting women’s participation and retention in STEM careers.

Challenge
​Despite increasing numbers of women entering STEM fields, many environments remain male-dominated, creating barriers to participation, progression, and retention. The challenge was to design a service that addressed these systemic obstacles through inclusive, supportive, and culturally aware experiences.
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Role
Design Lead within a Multinational Team
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Scope
Design leadership · Research synthesis · Interaction design · Prototyping · User validation
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.Impact & Outcomes
  • Led the design of a service concept focused on inclusion, support, and long-term retention for women in STEM.
  • Synthesised insights from literature and expert interviews to identify systemic barriers and opportunity areas.
  • Drove the design direction and interaction model, aligning a multinational team around a shared vision.
  • Designed and tested high-fidelity prototypes to explore engagement and participation mechanisms.
  • Applied inclusive and accessible design principles to ensure solutions were empathetic, culturally aware, and usable across contexts.
​​Full case study available upon request​
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