Christopher Nguyen

Christopher NguyenSep 29, 2026

I was just at Crafted London by UserTesting. And one thing that kept coming up… If your customer’s AI agents are: → Comparing the options → Reading the reviews → Picks the product “What's left for us, designers, to design?” Intimacy. Connection. Sense of belonging. Ensuring people feel seen, heard, and valued. It’s our job as designers, researchers, and product builders to make moments someone actually cares about. This is the new battlefield. ⋯ Shout out to amazing UserTesting team I met in-person. See y’all next year! #UserTestingPartner

Christopher NguyenOct 1, 2026

From CEOs to Designers (literally everyone at work), one thing everyone hates but has to do is… Reporting. No one gets a pass. We all have to do it. I ran a team of 20 and spent my days: → Reviewing designs → Commenting in Figma → Checking-in on juniors → Having 1:1s with my leads → Writing process documentation → Organising projects and workflows End of the week, month, quarter, or year comes and… I have to present (usually to non-designers) about: • What happened • Potential blockers • What’s next Aka reporting. If you’ve ever juggled multiple projects, been on different teams simultaneously, or up to your neck with actual work, the last thing you want to do is look backwards. But we have no choice. 6 months of work, everything is scattered, in DMs, in meeting notes, in your head. Collecting info alone takes 4 days. Presenting takes 20 minutes. The stakeholders are judging THIS presentation as your last 6 months. You either stay up late and work on this. Or look bad in front of your boss. The fix we can finally make happen is to get our tools to talk to each other, without all those manual hours we’d usually put in. The stack of tools I’d run: ∗ Notion → Source of truth → Project docs, scope → Tasks completed ∗ Slack → Ad hoc threads → Impromptu design feedback → Off-the-cuff decisions ∗ Figma → Latest version → Comments on prototype → Features signed off/still open ∗ Zoom → Design reviews → Interview transcripts → Decisions and approvals ∗ Claude → Connected to these tools → Reads across them → Assembles report in one go ∗ Pitch → Builds the deck → Uses my templates → Get a ready-to-share link I tell Claude something like: “Pull the project doc from Notion, the open comments from the Figma file, anything in the project’s Slack channel, and the notes from the last 2 design reviews in Zoom. Build the phase 2 milestone deck in Pitch from our design review template and give me a share link.” Deck done. All with Pitch’s MCP. Connect it to Claude once. Build your template: grid, typography, spacing, brand. Every deck the same, for every reporting cycle. Pitch also released their API. Same template, but instead of asking, automate every week, every month, on a milestone, on a phase change. The deck builds itself. The language of work is reporting. Might as well make it easy on yourself. Go try Pitch’s MCP https://lnkd.in/gGqzRqVw

Christopher NguyenSep 30, 2026

Founder routines on LinkedIn are incredible. By 7AM they’ve: • worked out • cold plunged • journaled • taken a small pharmacy of supplements • read 40 pages • and built a unicorn That’s suspiciously performative. Mine is… less groundbreaking I make more than I expected, less than I'll brag about. Here's what my weekday actually looks like: Morning: seeking excitement 9:00 AM: wake up 9:06 AM: doomscroll 9:15 AM: coffee + cigarette 10:00 AM: gym Mostly so I can later say "just got back from the gym". The first few hours are basically: scroll → read → rabbit hole → random questions → curiosity You can call this procrastination, but I call it strategic wandering. Occasionally, it produces a good idea. Usually, it produces 17 open tabs and mild intellectual confusion. Afternoon: focus 1:00 PM: planning + emails + figuring out what actually matters today. Mostly reviewing: → what blew up overnight → what changed this week → what suddenly seems interesting again 2:00 PM: lunch (theoretically) 3:00–9:00 PM: deep work Writing. Building. Solving problems. Also realizing around 4PM that skipping lunch was a tactical mistake. Evening: reflection 9:00 PM: dinner, usually incredible homemade Chinese food courtesy of Miya's mum. Two consequences: 1. It's amazing 2. It immediately destroys my productivity Digestion is my biggest operational bottleneck. 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM: hanging out, conversations, decompression 1:00–2:00 AM: reading, thinking, wandering through weird corners of the internet This is when ideas show up. Weekends: I play pickleball. Some founders meditate. I hit a plastic ball. Both are technically mindfulness. No cold plunges. No monk mode. No sunrise affirmations. No 5AM wake-up call. You just need to actually do the work. Radical concept. 🫳🎤 PS: What's your real routine vs. the one you'd post about? P.P.S. Come build design’s group chat with me at rectangles.fm