Most products have two problems. The second one is design.

I work on the first one too.

Pax8: Building a Monetisation System from a PowerPoint Slide and a Prayer

How I turned a vague commercial opportunity into a coherent product before anyone noticed we were making it up.

B2B SaaS · Monetisation · 0→1

Scaler: When the Frankenstein Problem Is Partly Your Fault

When the platform grew faster than its rules and the design system that stopped the drift.

ESG Analytics · Design Systems · SaaS

Beyond the Legacy: Restyling a Platform Without Losing It

A platform restyling that 85% of users chose voluntarily.

B2B SaaS

Hi, I’m Tamara 👋

Most design problems aren’t design problems. They’re clarity problems, alignment problems, foundation problems dressed up as UI problems. I’ve spent a decade learning to tell the difference – and building the thing that actually fixes it.

Senior product designer

B2B SaaS
Sustainability analytics
Monetisation systems

More about how I work

Thinking

Design Systems·May 20, 2026·5 min read

Loading States Are Not One Component

Every design system has a spinner. Most have added a skeleton screen component at some point. Some have a progress bar. What almost none of them have is a clear decision rule for which one to use when — which means developers reach for whichever is easiest to implement and designers ship whatever ships fastest.

Design Systems·May 13, 2026·5 min read

Form Validation Timing Is Not a Detail

Designers spend hours on the visual design of error messages — the red border, the icon, the copy. They spend almost no time on the question that determines whether those messages help or infuriate: when do they appear?

AI & Process·May 6, 2026·4 min read

Prompting Is a Design Skill

Prompting is the act of translating intent into language precise enough for a system with no context, no taste, and no knowledge of your constraints to produce something useful. That translation is exactly the same cognitive work as writing a good brief or specifying interaction behavior precisely.

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