Anna Kozh - Blog

How I convinced my stubborn manager

"Don’t change the original design," my Product Lead told me on my second day at Simpology. He had designed the whole solution two years before I joined, and the team had already implemented 20% of the design. This is a story about how I changed the original design.

15 JUN 2024 5 min READ Case study

Creating multi-brand white label design system

Developers hate guessing design. Trying to work with an outdated, inconsistent design file can literally make them pull their hair out. This is the chaos I walked into. This is the story of how I transformed it into a multi-library, white-label design system.

10 JUN 2024 4 min READ Case study

Clash of the cultures

Working with a remote team? From a different culture? That has different values and ways of working? Not just different, but opposite? Yes, I made it work.

05 JUN 2024 4 min READ Experience

Let's get lean and iterative

Start-ups aren’t for everyone. They are fast-paced and require many compromises. I ran out of wardrobe space for all the hats I was wearing. This is a story of how I adapted to start-up culture.

01 JUN 2024 6 min READ Case study

Product update videos

"Fresh off the code" weekly video updates were born during the pandemic. We saw a need for company-wide updates on the progress of our product development. I was excited to exercise my unrealized potential as a YouTuber, even on a small scale within my company.

25 MAY 2024 1 min READ Experience

10 Lessons I learned

Sometimes we get caught up in the moment, beating ourselves up because it feels like we are getting nowhere just because we are not where we want to be. As I reflected on my experiences over the last two years, I realized how much I’ve actually learned and grown.

15 MAY 2024 2 min READ Experience

Failure of my “brilliant idea”

I had a brilliant idea. It was clever, innovative, and had everything needed to be successful. It even had working examples in several larger companies. This is the story of my failed “brilliant idea.”

07 MAY 2024 4 min READ Case study

iPhone UX challenge

I've attempted David Hammill's UX challenge to redesign the iPhone screen for accepting or declining a call while you are already on another one.

01 MAY 2024 2 min READ Experience