Monika Krzesiak

Commonplace

Citizen Engagement Platform

A platform that helps local authorities and developers gather meaningful community input on planning and place-making decisions.

Civic TechData products
Commonplace citizen engagement platform

Context

Commonplace is a civic engagement platform supporting public consultation, urban planning and regeneration projects. The product ecosystem included public-facing project websites, map-based feedback tools, data-heavy dashboards and project editing workflows.

It enabled local authorities, developers and project teams to collect, understand and act on community input throughout the planning process.

Challenge

The main challenge was to connect a simple, accessible participation experience for residents with a powerful operational layer for project teams.

Feedback needed to be easy to submit, but structured enough to support location-based analysis, reporting and decision-making across complex consultation projects.

Commonplace community engagement product interfaceCommonplace consultation management product interfaceCommonplace engagement analytics product interface

My role + impact

I worked across multiple parts of the platform, including public project pages, geospatial feedback flows, project dashboards and editor/admin tools. The scope supported both sides of the consultation experience: public participation and the operational tools used to create, manage and analyse engagement projects.

My work focused on both sides of the platform: making participation as simple as possible for residents, while structuring large volumes of spatial feedback into data that project teams could analyse and act on.

Geospatial UXData workflowsPlatform architecture

Outcome

The result was a two-sided product experience across the full consultation loop - from public participation and project setup to data collection, analysis and stakeholder insight.

The platform made it easier for teams to manage engagement at scale while giving residents a clearer, more accessible way to take part in local planning decisions.

Public website

Commonplace public consultation and engagement interfaces

Dashboards / Data analysis

Commonplace project dashboard and geospatial feedback interfaces

Map + Project editors

Commonplace engagement analytics and reporting interfaces

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About

Monika Krzesiak

I’m a Senior Product Designer with over ten years' experience crafting digital products in regulated, complex domains, including leading product design teams and complex initiatives from product architecture through delivery.

I specialise in data-heavy applications, design systems and mobile experiences — areas where the challenge is not just how something looks, but how it holds together under real conditions.

Outside product design, I keep coming back to photography, architecture,book design and typography - disciplines that continue to shapehow I think about structure, composition and detail.

How I work

I work end-to-end - from framing product problems and setting design direction to structuring complex flows, prototyping, interface design and design systems.

Depending on the project, I work both as a hands-on product designer and as a design lead, aligning designers around a shared direction while staying close to users, product, engineering and implementation. I use research, rapid prototyping and AI-assisted workflows to explore, test and refine solutions.

LeadershipProduct strategyDiscoveryUser researchInformation architectureUser flowsInteraction designPrototypingUI designDesign systemsData-rich productsData visualisationMobileAccessibilityAI-assisted designDesign-to-codeProduct × EngineeringRoadmapsPrioritisation

Contact

I’m available for freelance projects, full-time roles, and collaborations