Marcus Chen

Designs the one core flow that makes an MVP make sense to its first real users — not a full design system nobody asked for yet.

Mobile-first by default, because that's where a first-time visitor actually shows up. Every screen earns its place, or it doesn't ship.

The hardest part of early-stage design isn't making something look good — it's cutting everything that doesn't serve the one flow a new user needs to understand the product in under a minute. A settings page, a second onboarding path, a feature flag for a use case with zero users yet: all of it waits until the core flow is validated, not before.