I found a bug in a colleague's design. Then I found out the bug was me.
Our users understood every chart perfectly, and then went and did absolutely nothing with it.
The best design decision I made that year was ignoring a brief. I'd like the record to show I read it three times first.
Someone says "let's just do it in a modal" and nobody asks why. I say it myself, way too often.
Most people who want better prompts actually need a better brief.
I've spent two years testing AI tools. Most of them made my week longer.
Every job description wants a user-centered designer. Nobody can tell me what that means.
Some of my best design work has no screens. It's the record of something I talked people out of building.
Every designer's CV says "cross-functional collaboration". Most of them mean they went to the meetings.
I spent the first few weeks of a brand-new product without designing a single screen.
The brief says users are dropping off in onboarding. It doesn't say how anyone knows that.
Every design system post-mortem sounds the same, and it's rarely about the components.
