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What happens when a product team has no product designer

Observations from a lone in-house design generalist

Lone design generalist making notes of their observations

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Feb 5, 2025

When a collaboration is not a collaboration

Prisoner’s dilemma in digital product design.

When a collaboration is not a collaboration

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Oct 28, 2024

Why we never hired a designer

A lone design generalist

Why we never hired a designer

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Jul 5, 2023

Simple ways to manage organisational complexity

From a product designer’s perspective

Illustration of an ad hoc networked team within conventional teams

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Jun 17, 2025

Sometimes hard UI can be a blessing

Desirable difficulties in B2B and B2C product design — and what research on disfluent fonts can teach us.

Sometimes hard UI can be a blessing

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Jun 13, 2025

Why we never hired another designer: a way out

Beyond digital product design — how lone design generalists can un-hire themselves into more inspiring roles

Why we never hired another designer: a way out

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Mar 23, 2025

F-laws of Communication

For in-house product design generalist

F-laws of Communication

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Feb 29, 2024

Even star product designers cannot save the world. Who can, then?

Thinking about digital product design after watching an episode of “Abstract” on Netflix.

Even star product designers cannot save the world. Who can, then?

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Jul 28, 2023

Design systems management from bottom-up

Exploring the soft side of design systems: advocacy, adoption, and governance

Design systems management from bottom-up

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Oct 18, 2022

Cross-Functional Retrospectives

A Simple Way to Manage Organisational Complexity

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Roman Lihhavtsuk

Roman Lihhavtsuk

UX Strategy Lead writing about product design, organisational systems, and management in complex B2B products—from a human and systems perspective.

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