Craft — PaulStamatiou.com

Thoughts on elevating product quality

After 10 years of working at large companies with thousands of employees, I recently joined a 10-person startup. It's called Rewind and I am absolutely loving my new role for a lot of reasons. It's a bit different from my previous roles: I’m a product designer but I also spend time building my designs in Xcode. I love having a hands-on route to directly affecting product quality. Much of my career as a designer has led me to hold product and design quality in the highest regard. It's not easy. I want to be proud of the things I ship and put my name on them (see also). That 10 year old post…

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