Miguel Pawlowski
Senior Product Designer
I design and build. I care most about good systems and real craft. I like tinkering until I land on the right solution. I like learning things properly, so I know when the rules can bend.
In 2021 I joined finmid as Founding Designer, alongside the first engineering team. Today I own design for our core product finmid Capital, our design system Ocarina, and brand.
Work
finmid Capital
finmid Capital is finmid's embedded lending product and the core of its business. It gives merchants, majorly in hospitality, access to funding directly within the platforms they already use, removing the need to go through a bank.
Role: Designer on finmid's core product, owning the 1→n phase end to end: from problem framing with the product owner over design to shipped frontend features. What I design goes live for merchants across ~30 European countries.
Makerspace.ai
Makerspace.ai is finmid's internal environment for exploring and testing ideas with modern AI coding tools. Prototypes build on a shared knowledge base, design systems, and skill files, so non-technical people can test ideas as working software. Living on a shared domain, prototypes are easy to pass around and react to.
Role: I built and run the environment, wired to our design system and product knowledge base.
Designing for configurability at scale
As finmid signed larger partners, one-off customisation requests piled up, each one requiring new design and engineering work. What began as a fixed experience became a framework that generalises these requests into configurable options, reducing the need for custom code per client.
Role: Defining and designing the framework, from mapping recurring customisation requests to the token logic underneath. Phase 1 cut customisation code for no-code customers by ~98%; partner launches that took weeks now take a fraction of that.
finmid.com
finmid's public website. As finmid operates as a layer behind its partners, the site isn't for end users but for prospective partners and investors: the first place finmid has to look credible. Clean, slightly technical, grown from a landing page to product pages, customer stories, and a blog.
Role: I set the design direction and designed the site from scratch. Today I also own the frontend and ship changes independently, without engineering involvement.
Ocarina Design System
Ocarina is finmid's design system, powering its partner-facing product and expanding into internal tooling. It keeps a fast-growing product consistent without teams rebuilding components from scratch.
Role: I started Ocarina and built the design side: token architecture, component logic, custom iconography, visual direction. The technical layer is built in close collaboration with engineering.
finmid Maker Days
A recurring program giving everyone at finmid, across every function, space to work on anything, with no assigned topic. Not about shipping more. About room to be bored, experiment, and follow your own curiosity.
Role: I created the program in 2021 and have run it since, now in its ninth edition.
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