Here are my perspectives on Product Design, Development, AI, and Tech. These views are subject and expected to change.
Design decides what exists and what doesn’t. Decoration arrives after the hard decisions are made. If your design work can be removed without changing outcomes, it wasn’t design.
AI collapses time to output. UX preserves intent across that speed. Without UX, acceleration just gets you and the user lost faster.
Technology is cheap, patterns are shared, execution is commoditized. Design is one of the last durable advantages. It encodes judgment, not just aesthetics.
Design was never about Figma, Sketch, or Lovable. Design is a way of thinking, a way of thoughtfully elevating the world around us. It will never die, it will just move up in abstraction.
Rigid teams optimize for predictability, not progress. The best teams reconfigure around problems, not org charts. Structure should serve the work, not the other way around.
Focus more on the end-result and less about job descriptions. Be willing to transcend the boundaries of your role, welcome others stepping into the boundaries your role. That is where real collaboration thrives.
Design without business is art. Business without design is service. The best products happen when both speak fluently to each other.
Strong opinions are useful until context changes. Judgment is knowing when to hold the line and when to adapt. Absolutes are for people without responsibility.
The user doesn't care how hard it was to build. They don’t care about your roadmap or your org structure. They don't care if you used Claude Code. They care that it works, that it solves their problem, and that it leaves them with a lasting impression.