Artiom Dashinsky

Hi, my name is Artiom Dashinsky.
I'm a product designer, author, and maker.

I'm currently based in Berlin.

My books

The Path to Staff Product Designer: How to Progress to the Next IC Level Beyond Senior (Staff/Lead/Principal) in UX Design

The Path to Staff Product Designer

My latest book helps product designers grow beyond Senior to the Staff, Lead, and Principal levels.

Product Design Career Workbook: 39 Exercises for Smarter Decisions and Growth in Your UX Design Career

Product Design Career Workbook

39 journaling exercises to help you reflect on your UX career, make smarter decisions, and grow faster.

The Effective Product Designer: 27 Lessons on Impact, Communication, Productivity, and Career Growth in UX Design

The Effective Product Designer

27 actionable lessons on impact, communication, productivity, and career growth.

The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career

The Path to Senior Product Designer

A step-by-step plan for growing your design career and getting promoted faster.

Solving Product Design Exercises

Solving Product Design Exercises

The Amazon bestseller for acing design interviews and practicing product thinking.

Generating Product Ideas

Generating Product Ideas

An idea-generation playbook for entrepreneurs and indie hackers looking for their next business, side hustle, or weekend project.

My products

Anymark

Anymark

I'm currently building Anymark, helping new businesses create a brand in minutes, backed by research.

Swag Fair

Swag Fair

A marketplace for unique, sustainable corporate swag from small businesses. Customers include Samsung, Philips, and DocuSign.

SketchKeys

SketchKeys

Shortcut keyboard stickers for Figma, Sketch, and Photoshop. Used by designers at Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Airbnb.

OpenStanding

OpenStanding

Laptop stands with a patented design, helping thousands of people have a more ergonomic workspace. Custom-branded as merch for LG, Sketch, McKinsey, and more.

Logggos

Logggos

A curated collection of well-designed logos that helps designers find better references for their branding work.

Client work

Client work

Over the last 17 years, I've been designing, building, and selling products, both digital and physical, as an employee, freelancer, and founder.

Occasionally I also help businesses build theirs, most recently Empathy, Guardio, and Mixtiles. Reach out if you'd like to work together.

Previous projects

Spoto

Spoto

I co-founded Spoto, a platform that helps companies provide a professional hybrid workspace to their employees.

WeWork

WeWork

In 2016–2017, I joined WeWork's new R&D center as the first designer, led the design of multiple digital products, and built the designer hiring process.

TaxRanked

TaxRanked

A comparison tool that helps the self-employed find the best country for tax residency.

VeggieMat

VeggieMat

I invented an interactive placemat for kids that improves their vegetable intake. The product is based on four scientific studies.

CMD-V

CMD+V

Two years before ChatGPT, I built a tool with an early GPT model to help designers generate real copy for their designs and portfolios.

Berghain

The Numbers of Berghain

A visualization of 12 years of bookings at Berlin’s techno club Berghain. Featured in Mixmag, DJ Mag, Electronic Beats, and more.

UX Design Exercises

Weekly Product Design Exercise

Weekly UX exercises inspired by the ones companies like Facebook and Google use to interview design candidates (23K subscribers).

EmojiKey

EmojiKey

I invented a way to type emojis on a computer keyboard and was featured in Wired.

Retinize It

Retinize It

A tool helping 100K+ designers and developers accelerate their Photoshop workflow, featured in Smashing Magazine, Awwwards, Webdesigner Depot, and more.

Side quests

Spam

Fighting spam

I popularized legal action against spammers in Israel: I sued a company that spammed me, won, and open-sourced my court statement, which went viral. I helped others sue spammers pro bono and was featured in mass media:

Sustainability

Promoting minimalism

In 2014, I minimized my belongings to 27 kg, moved to a randomly chosen country, and adopted a minimalist lifestyle. Living with less led me to explore how product design can be more sustainable:

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