Aleksander Kępiński — Product Design Lead

Product Design Lead / Industrial Designer

I turn ideas into
things you can touch
— and feel.

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Industrial Design Digital Product Design Service Design

Selected projects

All projects

Impact

4person design team I lead at AI Clearing
760K+job ads published on the platform I co-built — Poland’s largest HR tech company
19+clients, across product, industrial and graphic design work
9+years across industrial and digital product design

Projects

Comprehensively designed digital products created using design systems and several physical objects crafted in collaboration with skilled artisans.

Career

From designing physical products to leading digital product teams — and moving closer to product engineering.

Experience

Education

Recognition

About

I lead product design, from figuring out the problem to seeing the solution work in people's hands.

I'm a Product Design Lead at AI Clearing, where I work across product, engineering and business. I bring structure to complex workflows, help teams make decisions, and build the systems that let good work scale.

I'm also curious about what happens after handoff. I use AI to turn designs into simple, testable prototypes — so I can try the interactions and understand how an idea feels before it becomes a full engineering commitment. I don't write production code, but I like getting close enough to the technology to make better design decisions.

Daily sketches on Instagram →
My hair is longer right now Aleksander Kępiński
BasedWarsaw, Poland
CurrentlyProduct Design Lead at AI Clearing
Working towardFounding Product Designer
Often usingCommunication, Figma and LLM's

How I work

I make complex products easier to understand.

At AI Clearing, I've turned open-ended use cases and demanding construction workflows into clearer experiences across web and mobile.

I connect discovery to delivery.

I use research, experiments and workshops to understand what people need. Then I carry that understanding through flows, wireframes and prototypes to handoff and implementation review.

I build foundations for consistent work.

I create and evolve design systems with engineers, including shared standards and design tokens that help teams make coherent product decisions.

I stay curious about how things are made.

I explore how product thinking, interaction design and technology can work together. Over time, I want to grow toward design engineering: shaping an experience and helping bring it to life in code.

Principles

  • Stay with the work through delivery.A design file is one milestone. I care about how the experience works once it's built.
  • The medium changes; the discipline doesn't.Before interfaces, I designed physical products — from a transport concept to a diploma project for winemaking. Both call for curiosity, precision and attention to how people use things.
  • Use AI to explore, not to skip the thinking.It helps me make ideas tangible and testable. The judgment behind the design still has to come from me.

Interests

Petrolhead Winemaking Gardening Craft

Open to full-time roles, plus smaller projects and audits through KĘPIŃSKI STUDIO — from fintech and AI-native products to CRMs and e-commerce platforms.

Have something worth building? Let's talk.

Play with me!
I like cuddles!