Designer who ships. I design systems and build them in code, with AI as my pair.
For almost 6 years, my job ended at the handoff. I designed products and handed Figma files to engineers, hoping the thing that shipped matched the thing in my head. That work did well. It raised $100M+ across Truflation (40% retention lift, adoption by 100+ protocols and former FED members), Sentient (where I currently design their crypto products on contract), and Nuon (recognized by the Coinbase and Base teams).
Then I went further and built my own startup to co-founded Labyrinth, bringing privacy to on-chain transactions in a non-custodial and compliant way. We started with a hackathon project and later closed ~1.5m pre-seed round, partnered with the MetaMask/Consensys team, launched on testnet, and was presented at the Bank of Italy, WBS Gilmore Centre, and CBER events.
From last year, many things changed. With Claude as my pair, I started shipping my own work end to end for the first time. Apart from shipping multiple tiny tools, First is bitwill.com, the protocol for a non-custodial Bitcoin inheritance I'm building with a friend.
Then KeepCrypt, which I love because it's the first time I designed the physical product too: covert crypto storage hidden in ordinary hardware, like a screw that passes as a piece of furniture hardware until you press and quarter-turn it open. I modeled that screw in a CAD tool I drove through Claude MCP. It's now in manufacturing, with early pre-orders from individuals and resellers, and the site it lives on is already shipped.
The open-source inheritance audit tool that asks how you back up your seed phrase and set up inheritance, weighs it against a real threat model, and points you to a fix.
A year ago, I could only draw these products. Now I build them.
If you're a designer thinking about the same jump, or a founder who wants a designer who ships.
