The last six months have been quite eventful in my startup journey. My time at Archilogic came to a close, I spent three months at Texture as an iterim design lead, and most recently, I joined Speckle.
I’m sharing a few more details about each of these experiences.
Archilogic
My journey at Archilogic (a spatial data platform for AI-powered buildings) was a return to being a hands-on designer—and in every sense of the word.
As a sole designer, I was involved in everything product related: research, design, motion design, testing and bits of coding. I’m really proud of what we achieved there.
We took the product’s UX to an enterprise-ready level, and the effort culminated in a major validation: Carrier invested in our product.
But, as is often the case in startups, the wind doesn’t always blow in the same direction. Not everything aligned when it came to securing further funding.
A pivot toward sales-driven growth didn’t go as planned, and in May the company had to reduce its team (including me).
Texture
After taking a month to recharge, I joined Texture, a New York-based startup coordinating energy operations.
I came on board through a recommendation from Elisa, the former head of product at Archilogic. Nick, Texture’s CPO, and I agreed on a three-month collaboration, after which we would sit down and decide the next steps.
At Texture, my main focus was figuring out onboarding and the information architecture at the end-customer touchpoints—where data from all energy receivers and resources is aggregated. Much of the work was high-level, lo-fi designing and wireframing.
At Texture I spent quite some time on wireframing energy consumption dashboards. See in hi-res.
After those three months, we sat down to discuss the future. Texture offered me a longer-term role, but on the horizon, another opportunity appeared: Speckle.
Speckle
Working with Nick and the Texture team was a great experience—I didn’t even mind the different time zones.
But I realized I wanted my product and design expertise to be more deeply integrated into everyday building: collaborating closely with developers, staying close to the code, and shipping things on a daily basis. I also found that I missed the AEC problem space.
That’s when Speckle, with its AEC collaboration product, came into the picture. I joined them on the recommendation of Frederic, cofounder and VP of Engineering at Archilogic.
And so far the team at Speckle feels serious about building, shipping, and validating fast.
I’ll share more on that front soon.