Oliwia Śnieg
industrial design MA
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Specialisms: UX Design / Product Design / Industrial Design
Location: Gdańsk, Poland
Oliwia Śnieg
First Name: Oliwia
Last Name: Śnieg
Specialisms: UX Design / Product Design / Industrial Design
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My Location: Gdańsk, Poland
University / College: Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
Course / Program Title: industrial design MA
About
Designer and advocate of user-centered design, with roots in UX, focused on shaping solutions that are intuitive, usable, and grounded in real needs. Working across research, strategy, and prototyping, creates projects where usability and context matter as much as form. Believes that design is a process of listening, testing, and refining – a tool to make ideas genuinely useful and accessible.
When we think of petroleum in water, we imagine tanker spills in distant oceans. Yet in inland surface waters – the ones closest to our daily lives – these substances are often invisible to the human eye and remain largely unknown outside expert circles, even though they persist for decades, harming both ecosystems and human health. FLOW changes that. It is a floating screening station that uses fluorescence to detect petroleum compounds in real time, before they cause serious harm. Unlike traditional water quality monitoring, which is slow, centralized, and distant from everyday reality, FLOW works as a networked system with data accessible through an app. A practical tool for action that empowers researchers, decision-makers, and, most importantly, the communities closest to these waters to claim their right to know water quality.
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