Did you experience something like this?

Sadly not, I've always worked on products without any restrictions or regulations.

Sometimes our infrastructure or developers are very strict in product development.

Could you elaborate?

Our original plan was to move to the US for 1 year.

We spent the past 2 years preparing for our move back home. Ultimately, we moved back because of family; to give our daughters the chance to grow up with their great-grandparents while those are still around.

We were both ready to go back. I'll never forget the opportunities I got simply by being in San Francisco, but I never loved being there. Tech is everywhere, and it's hard to get a proper perspective on what happens outside the echo-chamber, which feels vital if you're a product designer. It's also a city of extremes, especially financial ones.

Moving back to Belgium is one of the best (and hardest, because at first it didn't feel like it made sense) decisions I ever made, and moving to the US close behind that. We moved to the US before we had kids (heck, we still were kids when we moved), grew up there, built a family, it will always be part of our lives. But now the timing felt right to move back (see family bit above). We might be back one day, but right now we're enjoying the slower pace of life, the healthy perspective, and being surrounded by family (aka free baby-sitters) again.

Paper and pencil for sketches and notes, Dropbox Paper to record more structured thoughts, scope, todo lists, Sketch for design and Abstract to record it all. Sometimes I'll whip out Atom to build a quick prototype.

My workflow is all over the place, depending on the type of project(s) I'm working on. Some start with a week-long kickoff and go through a rigorous process, others don't take longer than 5 minutes start to finish.

I work with a team of experienced professionals, and we've been working together for a while now which means there are a lot of shortcuts we can take.

What is the expected life span of a career in product design?

I'm about to find out.

This is one of those things I choose not to worry about. It'd only keep me up at night, and distract me from doing the best possible work.

Gotta look at the bigger picture.

We gave away a lot of shirts, so not surprised, but definitely made me smile :)

Without Electron, we would've never been here. It allows us to quickly add a lot of functionality, and makes it easy to find people who know how to work on it (compared to native macOS development). It isn't always the most performant, but we love it (and its community!). As for Windows: At some point, sure, but no idea when exactly that'd be.

Love it! Honored to see them building on top of my (very old) work. Kinda surreal to see the impact of a glyph I put together in 7 minutes flat (I timed it).

The food, some of the people (curated a good set of friends over the years), the ease of randomly meeting people, the weather, my motorcycle.

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