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

A book helping designers progress beyond Senior to Staff, Lead, and Principal roles.

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

Product Design Career Workbook

A journaling workbook with 39 exercises to help UX designers reflect on their career and grow.

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

The Effective Product Designer

A collection of 27 actionable lessons helping designers increase impact and build a better UX career.

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

The Path to Senior Product Designer

This book helps designers build an actionable career growth plan and get promoted faster.

Solving Product Design Exercises

Solving Product Design Exercises

My Amazon best-selling book helps UX and product designers prepare for job interviews and practice their product thinking.

Generating Product Ideas

Generating Product Ideas

Helping entrepreneurs and indie hackers generate ideas for a new business, side hustle or weekend project.

My products

Anymark

Anymark

Helping tech companies create their first brand, instantly and backed by data.

Swag Fair

Swag Fair

A marketplace for unique, sustainable corporate swag from small businesses. It ensures the promo industry has a better impact on people, the environment, and the economy.

SketchKeys

SketchKeys

Keyboard stickers helping designers accelerate their Figma, Sketch, and Photoshop workflows. Used by designers at Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb etc.

OpenStanding

OpenStanding

Custom-branded laptop stands helping Samsung, LG, Sketch, McKinsey and others have more effective merch. This product helps thousands of people to have a more ergonomic workspace.

Logggos

Logggos

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

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 led the design of multiple products at WeWork. I joined the Israeli R&D center as the 1st designer and built the foundations of the local design team.

TaxRanked

TaxRanked

Countries are like subscriptions: you pay annual taxes and receive services. I help the self-employed compare and find the best deal.

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

I'm sending weekly UX exercises inspired and used by companies like Facebook, Google, and WeWork to interview UX design candidates. The newsletter has 10,000+ subscribers.

EmojiKey

EmojiKey

I invented a way to type emojis on a computer keyboard. The product was featured in Wired and was my first product with both digital and physical aspects.

Retinize It

Retinize It

Since 2013 my tool is helping designers and developers accelerate their workflow. It has 100K downloads and featured in Smashing Magazine, Awwwards, Webdesigner Depot, Codrops, Sidebar, etc.

Promoting minimalism

Sustainability

In 2014, I minimized all my belongings to 27 kg and moved to a randomly chosen country, adopting a more minimalistic and sustainable lifestyle.

Since then, I’ve also explored the connection between product design and sustainability:

Fighting spam

Spam

I popularized legal action against spammers in Israel. After suing a company that spammed me and receiving compensation, I open-sourced my court statement, which went viral.

I was featured in the mass media and provided pro bono help with dealing with spammers.

Follow me on: Twitter, LinkedIn, Substack.