Create with purpose

(Mission)

available for hire

Vision meets execution

Kraków, Poland ⎯ Senior Product Designer.

Empowering traders at OANDA

(role. Senior UX / 2021 — Now)

15+ years of experience shaping complex financial systems, admin tools, trading platforms, and seamless money movement flows.

Mateusz Balawajder

Mateusz Balawajder

MAB85©, Designing the future of fintech.

FINTECH

PRODUCT

designer and active trader for 10+ years — fluent in Forex (TradFi), crypto (CEX/DEX), on-chain transactions and liquidity mechanics.

I design high-stakes flows where every click moves real money: KYC/AML onboarding, identity verification, deposits, withdrawals and multi-currency payments across 6 global regions. Just as comfortable in data-heavy admin systems and back-office tools. Research-driven, design-system minded (WCAG 2.1 AA) and AI-first — accelerating design-to-development with Claude Code and Cursor.

2022 ⎯ 2024, UX Lecturer

AGH University of Science and Technology

(1)

Trading psychology →

Guided students in applying UX principles to trading psychology, combining financial technology insights with behavioral design.

(2)

Mentorship →

User-centered research methods and practical design strategies in the context of trading platforms and financial products.

success stories (2)

(01)

(OANDA Forex Broker)

OANDA Melon Design System 1.0 — one spec, four products

Design tokens
492 (5 collections)
4 products · 1 source of truth
(02)

(OANDA Forex Broker)

Verify Identity — client onboarding x GBG

Verification sessions
12,152 (Oct ’25 – Apr ’26)
8,938 completed the full path

More case studies on the way