5 thoughts on design
The designer you are at work is a frame. Outside it, you can be fuller, broader, more.
The designer you are at work is a frame. Outside it, you can be fuller, broader, more.
System thinking is different from design thinking. You aren't shaping a single experience, you are shaping the ground others build on.
System thinking is different from design thinking. You aren't shaping a single experience, you are shaping the ground others build on.
We are creating a more digital world by the day. The real question is not can you build it, it is should you, and where the work actually adds value.
We are creating a more digital world by the day. The real question is not can you build it, it is should you, and where the work actually adds value.
Keep your humanity close. Let yourself be bored. Let yourself be slow. Good ideas often come that way.
Keep your humanity close. Let yourself be bored. Let yourself be slow. Good ideas often come that way.
The field is changing, and so are you. "I don't know", is sometimes the honest thing you can say and opens doors for whatever comes next.
The field is changing, and so are you. "I don't know", is sometimes the honest thing you can say and opens doors for whatever comes next.
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Feline at work, presenting in good spirits
Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley - a great inspiration for Feline!
Feline at work, presenting in good spirits
Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley - a great inspiration for Feline!
Feline at work, presenting in good spirits
Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley - a great inspiration for Feline!
The designer for designers
Design systems are often described as a toolkit, but for Feline, the work is closer to thinking in patterns. As a design system designer, she creates and maintains the components, guidelines, and structures that product teams use to build digital products. The goal is consistency and efficiency, but also something harder to define: better collaboration between design and development. A recurring challenge in this role is balancing structure with room to move. The system needs to hold things together across products while still allowing teams to adapt it to what they actually need. That tension is not a problem to solve once. It is the work. Getting comfortable with that required a shift in how she thought about design altogether.
Design systems are often described as a toolkit, but for Feline, the work is closer to thinking in patterns. As a design system designer, she creates and maintains the components, guidelines, and structures that product teams use to build digital products. The goal is consistency and efficiency, but also something harder to define: better collaboration between design and development. A recurring challenge in this role is balancing structure with room to move. The system needs to hold things together across products while still allowing teams to adapt it to what they actually need. That tension is not a problem to solve once. It is the work. Getting comfortable with that required a shift in how she thought about design altogether.
From design thinking to systems thinking
You may be familiar with design thinking: understand a person, define their problem, ideate, prototype, test. It is a strong foundation. But when your users are no longer end users and are instead your colleagues, the questions change.You are no longer looking for the best solution to one situation. You are looking for the one that holds across many, including the ones you cannot predict. Feline came to recognize this as systems thinking, a way of asking not just what someone needs, but how the pieces connect and what happens when one of them shifts.
You may be familiar with design thinking: understand a person, define their problem, ideate, prototype, test. It is a strong foundation. But when your users are no longer end users and are instead your colleagues, the questions change.You are no longer looking for the best solution to one situation. You are looking for the one that holds across many, including the ones you cannot predict. Feline came to recognize this as systems thinking, a way of asking not just what someone needs, but how the pieces connect and what happens when one of them shifts.
Fun bike ride during a city trip
Hairdesssing classes in action, one of Feline's hair work :)
Fun bike ride during a city trip
Hairdesssing classes in action, one of Feline's hair work :)
Fun bike ride during a city trip
Hairdesssing classes in action, one of Feline's hair work :)
The willingness to try
A book that helped her make sense of her own development as a designer was Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley. It shaped how she thinks about creativity: not as something you either have or do not, but as something you build through practice and willingness to try. "If you are considering a career in UX," she says, "it is a useful and accessible introduction to a designer's mindset." That question of willingness extends into how she thinks about the work itself.
A book that helped her make sense of her own development as a designer was Creative Confidence by Tom and David Kelley. It shaped how she thinks about creativity: not as something you either have or do not, but as something you build through practice and willingness to try. "If you are considering a career in UX," she says, "it is a useful and accessible introduction to a designer's mindset." That question of willingness extends into how she thinks about the work itself.
Slow down, stay curious
The world is becoming more digital, and designers are part of that. For Feline, the more interesting question is not whether something can be built, but whether it should, and where it actually adds value. Outside of work, she makes time for things far from any screen. She has been taking hairdressing classes, practicing on friends, and she continues to draw and read. Not to arrive anywhere in particular, but because slowing down and staying curious is how you figure things out along the way.
The world is becoming more digital, and designers are part of that. For Feline, the more interesting question is not whether something can be built, but whether it should, and where it actually adds value. Outside of work, she makes time for things far from any screen. She has been taking hairdressing classes, practicing on friends, and she continues to draw and read. Not to arrive anywhere in particular, but because slowing down and staying curious is how you figure things out along the way.
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