Innovation & digital product designer
About
I’m a designer fascinated by digital technology and its impact on people. What interests me most is not just how digital tools help individuals, but how they shape culture, influence our experience of the world, and expand our sense of what the future could be.
My work has spanned digital products, civic participation, and social innovation. Across these fields I look for patterns: how systems function, where they break, and how design can create structures that are both usable and humane.
I’m convinced that lasting solutions emerge from collective intelligence. Bringing diverse voices together — citizens, experts, or even non-human beings — allows us to see complexity more clearly and act more responsibly. Design can make that collaboration tangible.
Ultimately, my vision is of a world that is not defined by crisis and collapse, but by resilience and regeneration. I want my work to contribute to futures where technology strengthens life instead of draining it, and where people can live more fully, together.
Works
Entangle — Engage, Inform, Inspire
My years of experience in participation and the non-profit sector, combined with reflections on how social media shapes society, led me to an idea: what if there was a platform that allowed creators of community and public-benefit projects to easily communicate their initiatives and effectively engage people in them? What if creators could also inspire one another and replicate successful strategies? And what if, on the other side, people could follow projects based on where they live and what they care about?
Current social networks aren’t built for this. That’s why me and my team started working on Entangle. We’re still at the very beginning: so far, we’ve built a website builder with several participation tools, and we already have a few projects lined up as we move toward the next steps of creating the network.
pospolu.design — venture studio
Together with my colleague we run a small venture studio called pospolu.design. Our daily work focuses primarily on providing design and strategic support to early stage startups and innovation projects. We also collaborate with a number of nonprofits as well as medium-sized and larger companies.
We enjoy working on technological products—and with the people behind them. For example, we supported GoodAccess and Bitswan in their early stages, or worked on the branding and website for Mibcon. In the non-profit sector, I especially value our long-term collaboration with Via Clarita, where we’ve been closely involved in shaping both their strategy and brand as the organization has grown into a truly influential voice.
Digital Agora
Back in 2014, while still at university, I came across an interview with a philosopher Pierre Lévy about collective intelligence and his project of a meta-language for the Internet. That encounter sparked my long-term interest in the topic. In 2015, I wrote my thesis on it, in 2018 I started a blog on digital democracy, and in 2019 I began collaborating with the non-profit Agora Central Europe. Together, we developed a suite of digital tools integrated into their participatory processes and services, which we launched under the name Digital Agora. These tools have been — and in some cases still are — used across dozens of cities in the Czech Republic and abroad. Yet within the constraints of a non-profit, they were built on a shoestring and in a rather improvised way. After about five years, I decided to take my civic-tech work to a more professional level and scale it up — which set me on the path to creating Entangle.
Supporting post-growth movement
For more than ten years, I’ve been fascinated by the exploration of alternative economic models and new approaches to business—ideas that today are often labeled as post-growth or degrowth, and just as often ridiculed as some kind of radical leftist ideology. I’m by no means a left-wing activist—in fact, I consider myself quite market-oriented—but I’m deeply motivated by ecological concerns and the urgent need to rethink how our economies relate to the planet’s limits. I believe that economic innovation must go hand in hand with sustainability, and judging from IPCC reports, I don’t have the impression that so-called “green growth” will get us there.
That’s why I decided to support my friend in shaping the brand identity of the degrowth movement, designing the information architecture and user interface for its website, and later developing the entire site as well. Beyond the design and technical support, I also got involved on the content side: I wrote an article on steward-ownership, highlighting how ownership models can support more sustainable and resilient economies.
Pilgrim — wandering university of nature
I first came to Pilgrim in 2016 through my friend Jiří Zemanek—an art historian, curator, and translator—who founded the association to cultivate a holistic approach to personal growth, nature and human culture. Under his guidance, Pilgrim has grown into a creative community of like-minded people, organizing workshops, public lectures, and pilgrimages.
Being part of this circle has brought me closer to nature, to the practice of walking as a form of reflection, and to many wonderful people. My own contribution has been mainly digital and creative: I created and take care of the website, and over the past several years I have also supported the association with event coordination and especially with book design and typesetting.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
From 2016 to 2020, I worked as a designer for this long-established media institution. I joined as a fresh graduate, full of ideals and visions of how media could be transformed in the digital age—only to quickly run into the wall of reality. Instead of leading media transformation, I found myself dealing mostly with the institution’s operational challenges. Still, it was an invaluable and unforgettable experience. I was responsible for the brand and the radio’s website, redesigned a large-scale CMS used by journalists worldwide, and collaborated on a variety of media projects.
Prague's pantheon
It’s fascinating to see every city as a kind of biographical museum, with plaques, busts, and monuments telling stories of inspiring figures. My grandfather shared this fascination and spent over a decade writing nearly 400 biographies in a rich, almost poetic language. His work remained unfinished after a stroke, and I felt it was my duty to preserve it.
In 2019–2020, I focused on proofreading and publishing his writings, working with an editor to correct both grammatical and historical inaccuracies. I published the texts on a MediaWiki platform so they could be edited collaboratively. In reality, this experiment failed—no one engaged in editing. Still, the project found recognition: Pantheon’s texts are cited on Wikipedia, in local newspapers, and even in academic works, and were appreciated by the Academy of Sciences.
Looking ahead, I’d like to transform the project into a digital app, offering city walks enriched with audio and integrated texts to bring these biographies to life in a new way.