AI makes it easier to produce options. It doesn’t make it easier to decide which one actually matters.

Design decisions often last much longer than teams expect, sometimes longer than the designers who made them.

Some design decisions are easy to change, while others quietly become the default everything else builds on. The difficult part is that they rarely look different in the moment.

Concept with demo data on how to plan money flows across different accounts. Quickly add, edit, remove or hide positions to simulate different scenarios. Might build that one on the side.

Arigato - Felix Dorner A Framer template for small businesses

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Arigato is simple but effective Framer template for small food spots, coffee shops, or bars.

When you have idle time, build systems.

Following too many designers slowly turns your work into an average of everyone else’s.

If everything feels urgent, nothing is being prioritised.

AI makes it easy to produce options. It doesn’t make it easier to decide which one actually matters.

Good craft often shows up in the things nobody comments on.

Working hard matters. But working in a way you can repeat matters more.

I trust designers more when their work feels calm than when it tries to impress me.

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If you want better design ideas, spend less time scrolling and more time looking at things that weren’t made for screens.

I do like using as less tools as possible, which is why I'm on Apple Notes. However, .md files get more and more important with AI, which is why I'm considering migrating my notes to Obsidian. Anyone using it?

If most of your references come from other digital products,
your work will probably start to look the same as theirs.

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Calm is often a better signal than speed.

Excited to announce a new design partnership with Foxglove. Looking forward to help them with design systems.

Consistency is underrated because it’s not very interesting to talk about.

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A design system is successful
when people forget it exists
and just use it.

Example views of my UI kit (v8). A German startup used v4 and raised $6M. Foundations that scale with your business.

Most creative blocks aren’t creative. They’re decision fatigue.

Workflow builder with AI agents in between

A design system starts paying off
the moment it prevents a “quick fix”.