Notes on
Design & Fintech

Field notes on B2B fintech, payments UX, remote work, hiring, and how AI is changing the way designers actually work.

8 Jun 2026 · 4 min read

Generalist vs Specialist Is the Wrong Debate

It's not breadth versus depth. The real fork is IC depth versus a leadership track — and one comes with a ceiling stapled to the title.

2 Jun 2026 · 5 min read

What They Actually Hire For

I read 21 Senior PD job descriptions for patterns, not requirements. Here's what hiring managers really screen for.

28 May 2026 · 4 min read

Every Job Description Is a Lie

Every JD reads like a wish list written by committee. That's not a Senior Designer — that's a Design Director without the title or the comp.

25 May 2026 · 4 min read

Designing for Kazakhstan from Bangkok

I design payment flows for Kazakhstani merchants from 4,500 km away. What that distance takes from the work — and what it gives back.

21 May 2026 · 3 min read

Merchants Trust Their Workaround, Not Your Flow

A café owner logged every QR transaction by hand next to a working confirmation screen. That's not a UX failure — it's a trust failure.

5 May 2026 · 5 min read

I Rebuilt My Portfolio with Claude Code

Why I traded Framer for pure HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS — and the Claude Code skills that actually made it work.