Timeframe Theory for Product Design Work Get out of the middle! It’s the hardest timeframe to predict. Too far to be tactical. Too close to be strategic. Design works best at the extremes: • Long term, North Star vision • Short term immediately shippable work

This framing has been very helpful for me I always have called it: 10-0-1 You don't need to know what version 2-9 are, you just need to know the dream destination (v10), and what you can ship and test today and tomorrow (v1, v0)

“If AI had existed ten years ago, products would not look the way they do today. We need to move beyond chat and create experiences where AI feels native, invisible, and context-aware. This is our role: to imagine the future, and to bring it into the present.”

AMA with Kevin Clark and Cynthia Savard Saucier on design @ Shopify • Context is overrated(!). We’re building a more fluid org where teams shift into new problems often, instead of getting stuck in static structures. • In this new chapter for design, we’re looking for managers who are

I get to have a team that ONLY thinks about future of commerce experiences... This time we designed a magic mirror that compliments you, recommends a blush shade, and redeems instantly at Retail PoS. Over one weekend at Rare Beauty's LA pop-up: 🪩 2,000+ Magic Mirror scans 📸

Here to address the confidence issue in design: stop chasing KPIs that explain what “great” looks like. Trust your aesthetics. Trust your POV. That’s what you were hired to bring. Create something beautiful!

This week's episode is all about Shopify's big bet on design and craft as the ultimate differentiator Carl Rivera is going all in ✧ rethinking the org structure ✧ acquiring the design studio Molly ✧ putting craft above business metrics This is a fantastic episode 👇

interfaces are conversations

My design team has a 100% adoption of cursor. All have demonstrated their ability to create simple coded prototypes and over 75 % have shared complex prototypes. It’s *wild* how fast this has been achieved.

Every few years, companies announce a shiny new way of working. But the real job isn’t forcing people into a structure—it’s matching the right process to the people and problems at hand. From the wonderful chat I got to have with Ridd 🤿 on Dive Club 🤿

“ you can have very shitty design and have a great business impact too“ Carl Rivera on building confidence in the craft 👇

My favorite hot take: context is overrated! What’s actually scarce is fresh perspective, courage and curiosity —people who haven’t absorbed all the priors and can imagine a different way. High rotation org FTW From Dive Club 🤿 w. Ridd 🤿

We run an internal dribbble where work in flight, northstar concepts, and everything in between gets shared daily between designers at Shopify. Just a super simple and fun way to get everyone excited about the future we're building. This stuff is fun

We’ve talked about Conversational Commerce for years. Many tried (myself included) but the future always felt just out of reach. With OpenAI × Shopify, it’s finally here—and it’s about to change how people shop every day

Acquiring Molly Studio is about building a team that can anticipate the future, and in doing so, help shape it. From Jaytel in March molly.studio/thesis/openai-…