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Mateo Szymkowicz
Design partner for founders with underperforming products
- $50k+
- Earned
- 7x
- Hired
- 5.00
- Rating
- 239
- Followers
Building my own product, I keep doing the exact thing I warn founders about.
Made a splash animation I loved. Watched it on a real device and it dragged. Told founders a hundred times: the first impression is a budget you spend in two seconds.
The advice I give for a living is the advice I have to force myself to take.
Most clutter isn't a bad feature. It's a fine feature showing up at the wrong moment.
Launch is October 1st and almost nothing on the feature list needs to be there for it.
Solid build, all of it worked. Most of it could wait.
Half the features on a pre-launch roadmap are guesses wearing a deadline. Shipping turns them back into questions you can answer.
A client described what it's like to work with me this week. The design barely came up.
What stuck with them was that the user's point of view is always first on the table.
Taste without the user in the room is just decoration.
Was supposed to build static screens. Built a clickable prototype with AI instead and skipped that step entirely.
Caught two problems in five minutes that never would've shown up in a flat design. The kind that quietly add days if not weeks to a timeline.
Feeling the flow early is always cheaper than finding the flaw late.