Monika Pawlak · Product designer for AI

Monika Pawlak

Hi, I’m Monika. Designing for AI since we called it ML, from 0 to 1.

  1. Miro Senior Product Designer 2026–current

    Start from a skill, never from an empty board.

    Agents’ work is visible in Miro.

    Designed the new human-agent collaboration experience for Miro, used by 100M+ users

    The Canvas26 keynote

    Think out loud, and the board takes it down.

    Created the vision for Miro AI

    Collaborate with agents like with humans, in a multiplayer canvas.

    Miro gets you up to speed fast, so you read what matters rather than everything.

    Rewired how Miro designs and ships in the AI era

    Three people working at a table in a Miro workshop, the personas they are designing for named on the wall behind them
  2. McKinsey Senior Product Designer 2023–2026
    Stay in control of where data is pulled from

    Led design for Lilli’s agents, used by 20k consultants a month.

    Understand the work AI is doing behind the scenes

    Made agent setups reusable, and agent users came back 33% more often.

    Reuse chat presets to kick-start work faster

    Established a continuous research effort, bringing insights from 100+ users straight into roadmap planning.

    Assign an identity so you can find your Agents fast
  3. Google X Founding designer 2020–2023

    I acted as founding designer and product lead across five early-stage climate AI teams.

    Review, compare and label the events your models detected

    Designed and built first product versions that helped win first paying customers and bring in $10M+ in funding across projects.

    Preview event live stream directly from fibre optic

    I established early testing and discovery across these initiatives, helping teams define GTM strategy.

    See a grower’s farms on the lice scale, then fly into one

    I also dipped my toes in hardware and remote sensing, with on-edge detection.

    Narrow to one life stage: the count, the chart and the map follow
    Monika showing a laptop to three growers standing under the trees in an almond orchard
    A patent drawing of the trap: cameras over stacked trays, with sensors, a battery, a controller and a link to the network
    A timber frame going up outdoors, four people working on it, a laptop running on the grass beside them
  4. Architecture Architect 2017–2021
    A corrugated and translucent building standing over a courtyard of olive trees

    I designed spatial experiences in the physical world before moving to the digital.

    A crocheted rope sleeve tied around a plane tree, two people working on it in the courtyard

    I spent time in both construction and at the intersection with tech, building interactive physical prototypes.

    Hyperkatoikia: a tower cut open, with somebody living on every floor

Why Monika

A Miro workshop: two tables of people talking over open laptops
  • Building is how I design, lead, and bring people with me.
  • Looking in before looking out. Our DNA, not a competitor’s.
  • Sharing early and often, as if Slack were X.
  • Finishing it myself, in production, at the last ten per cent.
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