As a creative UX designer, I have always been interested in how information can be transformed into experiences that feel engaging, intuitive, and meaningful. Project White Eagle became an opportunity to combine product design, historical storytelling, and my own cultural heritage into a single evolving platform.
Growing up as a first generation American in a Polish speaking family, I was always connected to Polish culture, but I never fully understood the depth and complexity of Poland’s history. As I explored Polish numismatics further, I realized coins could act as historical artifacts that documented political change, economics, rulers, wars, and national identity across centuries.
That realization inspired me to create Project White Eagle as more than just a coin database. I wanted to design a modern, organized, and approachable experience that helped people understand Polish history and numismatics together.
The project currently contains over 3,500 Polish coins along with historical overviews of major eras, ruler information, educational resources, and detailed entries covering specifications, historical context, error varieties, counterfeit detection, and more. A major goal of the platform has been organizing fragmented historical and numismatic information into a system that feels easier to explore and understand for both collectors and newcomers alike.
This is still a very active and ongoing project. I am currently reaching out to museums, institutions, and auction houses throughout Poland in an effort to properly source and license coin imagery for the platform. Visual content is a major next step for the experience, and thousands of coin images will gradually be added to help make the site more engaging, educational, and immersive.
Trust and accuracy are also extremely important parts of the project. One of my core goals is ensuring that information throughout the site is sourced and linked back to references whenever possible so users can better verify and explore the historical information themselves.
AI has also played a major role in helping accelerate research, organization, and development throughout this project. At the same time, I fully recognize that AI systems can sometimes generate inaccurate or fabricated information. Because of this, I am making a strong effort to identify and eliminate those inaccuracies through ongoing source verification, expert review, collector feedback, and user submitted corrections from the community itself.
More than anything, Project White Eagle has helped bring me closer to my own heritage while allowing me to create something educational, interactive, and meaningful for others interested in Polish history and numismatics. It continues to evolve as both a historical resource and a long term design project focused on making complex cultural history easier to explore through thoughtful UX, organization, and storytelling.
You can explore the project at:
ProjectWhiteEagle.com
