Head of Design
Written by
Priya Raman
Published
Reading time
4 min read
Category
Design
Pixels make ideas look finished
The moment a design looks polished, people stop questioning it. They comment on colours and spacing instead of asking whether the screen should exist at all. Paper keeps the conversation on the problem.
Fast and cheap to throw away
In a thirty-minute session a designer and an engineer can sketch eight versions of a flow. Nobody is attached to any of them, so the weak ones get crossed out without a debate.
Everyone can join in
Founders, support leads and developers all draw boxes and arrows with confidence. Sketching pulls their knowledge into the design early, instead of in review comments three weeks later.
When we move to Figma
Once the flow holds up, we build low-fidelity wireframes in Figma and test them with users. Visual design comes last, on top of a structure we already trust.