Decision Design
Design doesn't fail
because it's weak.
It fails at the table.
The decisions that determine your work's fate happen before you're in the room. I work with designers, freelancers, and agencies who are ready to control the frame — not just the deliverable.
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Before the Meeting: A Conversation with Erik Spiekermann
On studio culture, the conversations that happen on staircases, and what designers lose when they stop being in the same room.
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The Core Problem
Most design advice assumes the decision moment is visible. It isn't.
Most design problems are not design problems.
They look like quality problems. They feel like process problems. But underneath, almost every design failure leads to the same place: a conversation that went wrong before anything was made.
The moment a designer starts justifying — they've already lost the frame.
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