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I Don't Like Ads

I Don't Like Ads

How treating ads as interaction systems rather than endpoints led to fundamentally different engagement patterns and outcomes at Buzzvil.

The 2026 Buzzvil Design Stack, Preparing for the AI Shift

The 2026 Buzzvil Design Stack, Preparing for the AI Shift

As Buzzvil prepares for the AI shift, tool choices are no longer just operational—they are strategic. This article outlines our 2026 design stack and why a unified, code-connected system is the prerequisite for AI-assisted product creation.

Life in Sprint Mode: Raising Two Kids While Working at a Hyper-Dynamic Korean Startup

Life in Sprint Mode: Raising Two Kids While Working at a Hyper-Dynamic Korean Startup

Raising two kids while working at a hyper-dynamic startup is not about balance but rhythm. This piece explores how autonomy, trust, and the right culture create space for both work and life to grow.

High output management: identifying and measuring your design outputs

High output management: identifying and measuring your design outputs

Design-oriented takeaways from Andrew Grove's High Output Management. How to see design as a process with measurable outputs and apply the production-chain lens to your team's work.

Tools to build a design system in 2020

Tools to build a design system in 2020

A healthy yearly routine: gauging your toolbox against what's new in the design tool industry. How our team of six evaluated and adjusted our stack with a focus on design systems and code integration in 2020.

Design Tempo: the art of managing creative pace

Design Tempo: the art of managing creative pace

Designers, like musicians, need to play in tune. A short essay on creative team pace management—how to set a shared tempo and support both creativity and productivity.

Design criticism

Design criticism

Subjective feedback is rarely useful; your role is to turn it into something objective. How to avoid friction when receiving design feedback and keep the end user at the center of the discussion.

Study*(Designers+Engineers)= ❤️ pt.2

Study*(Designers+Engineers)= ❤️ pt.2

The second act of our designer–engineer study: building Billy, an internal book library. What we learned from involving everyone from exploration to delivery and incubating the whole development process together.

Study*(Designers+Engineers)= ❤️ pt.1

Study*(Designers+Engineers)= ❤️ pt.1

A cross-functional study between designers and engineers to work better together. Part one: how we identified shared conventions and built Phantom Box, a CI pipeline from Figma to Android.

Design system at Buzzvil

Design system at Buzzvil

Design system versus startup: is it worth it? Takeaways from building a design system at Buzzvil to cover diverse, growing product needs with a modest team.