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Thoughts on design, product, and figuring out a meaningful next career step. Hoping to create value by sharing learnings from 10+ years as a designer and design leader as well as my own experiment in designing a life worth living.

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  1. Issue · Aug 19, 2026

    Designing in a changing world (opens the original)

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    Back to designingI’ve been a design manager for a large part of my career. Earlier this year, I co-founded Steady and found myself designing a product and brand from scratch, and building most of the frontend with Claude Code. Being hands-on again felt great. When Steady didn’t work out, I started looking for projects where I could do more of that.There was some uncertainty about whether I could operate as a high-level IC after so long in management. I trusted my product thinking, but the detail

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