Every content designer knows the compounding effect of being treated like a support function, and after a decade of bending, I finally broke. Then, I quit content design.
And later, I became a product designer.
I built components from scratch, shipped features end-to-end, and struggled with states, interactions, and accessibility requirements. But for the first time in my career, I had power, and I thought it was everything I ever wanted.
Until I fell back in love with content design.
This talk is about what I learned sitting in a product designer's chair and why they make tradeoffs I used to fight, what AI still can't solve, and why the people I thought were ignoring content design were actually just drowning in constraints I couldn't see from my former seat. It's about how learning to speak the language of design not only built credibility, but also reminded me why content design matters in the first place.
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