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2025 pushed us into the earliest, messiest stages of product building.
We worked side by side with founders, turning raw ideas into testable products, shaping MVPs from zero, and helping teams make their first real bets with confidence. From discovery to first launches, we focused on what matters most at the beginning: clarity, speed, and learning.
Across different industries and problem spaces, one thing stayed constant: using product thinking, design, and research to reduce uncertainty and help founders move from 0 to 1 with more confidence.
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My career as a designer has never been a consistent one.
No straight line. No winning year on year. Honestly, the bumpiest journey imaginable to get where I am.
I started in this industry with a cracked version of Photoshop, running on a PC that would crash with anything I designed.
I once worked for a company on 12k a year and could barely make rent. But I did what I could, because I love what I do.
To anyone expecting perfection in your first year, think twice. Technology lets us get better faster, sure, but you still need the fundamentals of design and business. Without them you're just guessing at what's good, and your clients pay the price.
Take your time. The reality of success is still damn hard work. A social following doesn't pay the way you think it does not unless you know how to sell or create.
If I could give someone a piece of advice, it'd be this: Be patient, Be willing to give more than you take and don't rely on AI to do all the thinking for you.
How long have you been in this industry? Since I started this career, I have been a huge fan of your work. From which design period did you start to show the desired outcome after you joined?
A client gave this idea the green light before I even started building it.
Been using AI a lot lately to prototype ideas early, show the direction, and make sure we’re aligned before jumping into the actual build.
Such a good time saver.
2 days ago, I posted a 0 → 1 Product Design case study. If I have to define my entire product design career, I just need 3 to 4 words - AI, B2B, Saas, Research.
People can show case the final results but I am all about the behind the scene messy work with a lot of pen and paper with sticky notes involved. Then there is also a part which I am obsessed with ( live prototyping with Cursor, pushing 10k lines of code into github. Ah What a life!!!!!!!
Behind the scene is always great to see, otherwise we end up with thousands of polished static/moving case studies.