Labels are useful — until they quietly turn into limits. And when designers are constrained to a single lane for too long, the work inevitably starts to suffer.
We tend to talk about learning as something big and dramatic: a new degree, a major career pivot, a full reinvention of who you are. But that’s not how learning usually works in real life. In practice, learning looks a lot more like behavior change.
I often think about how much good product design depends on work most people never see. Not the screens. Not the flows. Not the final polish. But the invisible parts that shape whether good work is even possible in the first place.
