Street shots from old town Tallinn 🇪🇪

My favourite people to work with are those with a god complex but nothing to prove. Just materialistic and spiritual ambitions to maximise pleasure and contentment in life. I can spot them now. And I tolerate their genius. Their company is more important to me than their tantrum.

"design leader" is a cringe title. Manager, Director, VP, Head is fine. They tell where you are in your company's career framework. "leader" sounds like "I'm god treat me well". That's ok, except when your portfolio with 8-10Y XP looks no better than that of new grad in 2025.

People disguise their hostility by saying their advices are from experience. What works for those who operate from a place of fear won't work for somebody with an insurance. Think about the things the other person risk to loose that you don't when listening.

Every interaction you craft today, there is a Wordpress theme of that on Envanto posted 10 years back.

How do you explain your team you are designing in your head for last 1 week and will put everything in Figma tomorrow?

I get the hype about New York

SwiftUI + Gemini 3 Pro + Liquid Glass

I'm too right wing for the left and I'm too left wing for the right. I'm too into humanities for those in tech and I'm too into tech for those in the humanities. What I'm learning is that failing to polarize is itself quite polarizing.

Thrilled to see this shipped 🚀, last thing I designed at smallcase. Huge shoutout to Nivedita and her team for adding so much life to this with the iconography and illustration work!

Unsettling amount of lessons are derived from moments when an act didn't go as planned which - on a different day, with a different set of actors would've worked out just fine.

There are no spectators here

Once you get comfortable with eating at 18-20 hour intervals there is no going back

Things I want to design next 📋 Productivity apps (on it after 7) 🗺️ Maps ❤️ Health and wearables 📸 Camera ⛱️ Travel Experiences (not flight)

Every time I start taking advices I have to remind myself that I am not that coachable I learn FAFO

What are you gonna do by raising the ceiling when your floor is so damn low

37signals was ahead of time. If there is anything I fanboy in tech it's them. Do they have the best interface - no. Did they nail the system of building simple software that work without the status clownery - 100%.