In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo sits down with Viktor, designer and founder of Design Rocket, for an open, reflective conversation about personal experiences, career moments, and lessons learned along the way.

This is not a “how-to” episode.
It’s a human conversation about work, identity, creativity, uncertainty, and growth — shared from lived experience.

😎 ABOUT THE GUEST

👱🏻‍♂️ Viktor
💻 Designer & Founder @ Design Rocket
X: https://x.com/viktoroddy
YouTube: @ViktorOddy

📝 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo dives into:

• 00:00 - Intro preview
• 00:42 - Welcome to the episode
• 00:47 - Meet Viktor, founder of Design Rocket
• 01:08 - Moving from Ukraine to Italy and then Asia
• 03:42 - Viktor introduces himself
• 04:02 - How he got into design at a young age
• 04:36 - From graphic design to product design
• 05:01 - Building gaming communities and fake game concepts as a teenager
• 06:30 - His first professional design work
• 16:20 - A practical AI workflow for creating websites
• 24:17 - Motion sites, deliverables, and showing AI work to clients
• 29:32 - Why AI changes the design process
• 32:49 - Figma Make and AI-powered website creation
• 36:20 - How to stay thoughtful and useful while using AI
• 37:22 - Broader reflections beyond AI
• 42:02 - The Now and Next closing question
• 44:57 - Final thoughts and outro

Get ready for a mix of real stories, psychology, design thinking, and life lessons — all in a simple, human, easy-to-remember way.

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I had a very nice chat with Viktor Oddy, which you can watch or listen to in an upcoming episode of Now and Next.

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👱🏻‍♂️ Viktor 💻 Designer & Founder @ Design Rocket X: https://x.com/viktoroddy
YouTube: @ViktorOddy

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In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo sits down with Paulius Zutautas — Product Designer, Data Visualisation Designer, and Developer — for an open, reflective conversation about personal experiences, career moments, and lessons learned along the way.

This is not a “how-to” episode.
It’s a human conversation about work, identity, creativity, uncertainty, and growth — shared from lived experience.

😎 ABOUT THE GUEST

👱🏻‍♂️ Paulius Zutautas
💻 Design, Data & Code.
👉 LinkedIn | Paulius Žutautas | https://www.linkedin.com/in/zutautaspaulius

📝 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo dives into:

• 00:00 – Welcome & setting the context
• 02:45 – Background and design journey
• 06:00 – Discovering design and data visualization
• 14:20 – Early work experiences and learning moments
• 20:15 – Design responsibility and quality
• 25:00 – Communication through data
• 36:55 – Function vs aesthetics in visualization
• 41:40 – Exploratory vs message-driven design
• 50:05 – Audience, context, and meaning
• 57:00 – AI, speed, and accountability
• 01:08:55 – Design systems and machine-readable design
• 01:18:10 – The design job market today
• 01:32:25 – Industry transition and uncertainty
• 01:42:55 – Human judgment, creativity, and AI
• 01:55:00 – Closing reflections

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I had a very nice chat with Paulius Žutautas, which you can watch or listen to in the upcoming episode of Now and Next.

😎 ABOUT THE GUEST

👱🏻‍♂️ Paulius Zutautas
💻 Design, Data & Code.

👉 LinkedIn | Paulius Žutautas | https://www.linkedin.com/in/zutautaspaulius

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In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo sits down with Kathy Wang, co-founder of Press Club, for an open, reflective conversation about personal experiences, career moments, and lessons learned along the way.

This is not a “how-to” episode.
It’s a human conversation about work, identity, creativity, uncertainty, and growth — shared from lived experience.

😎 ABOUT THE GUEST

👩🏻 Kathy Wang
💻 Co-founder @ Press Club

👉 LinkedIn | Kathy Wang | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathytwang
👉 TikTok | @thekathywang | https://www.tiktok.com/@thekathywang
👉 X | @kwangaroo | https://x.com/kwangaroo
👉 YouTube | @kathywang | https://www.youtube.com/@kathywang

📝 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo dives into:

• 00:00 – Welcome & setting the context
• 02:45 – Kathy’s background & personal story
• 06:00 – Discovering design & creative identity
• 14:20 – Early career experiences & learning moments
• 20:15 – Personal reflections on growth & confidence
• 25:00 – Thoughts on communication & reaching out
• 36:55 – Lessons learned from team collaboration
• 41:40 – Personal experience with sharing ideas publicly
• 50:05 – Navigating conversations & relationships
• 57:00 – Taking personal risks & transitions
• 01:08:55 – Reflections on AI, creativity, and change
• 01:18:10 – Stories about persistence & initiative
• 01:32:25 – Human creativity & meaning
• 01:42:55 – Closing thoughts & personal quote

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I had a very nice chat with Kathy Wang, which you can watch or listen to in an upcoming episode of Now and Next.

😎 ABOUT THE GUEST

👩🏻 Kathy Wang
💻 Co-founder @ Press Club

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In this clip, Mr. Biscuit shows why Figma’s variable table becomes impossible to manage at scale — and how Variable Visualizer solves it with a visual dependency graph, better navigation, smarter naming, and AI-assisted variable management.

😎 ABOUT MR. BISCUIT (Shuaiqi Sun):
Design System Architect and Hybrid Designer/Developer
🟣 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuaiqi-sun-bb3a2a12b/
🟣 YouTube: @mr.biscuit

📝 EPISODE SUMMARY:
00:00 – Visualization of Variables in Figma
04:30 – Exporting Variables
06:54 – Renaming the Variables
07:38 – Ask AI to rename the variables
09:51 – Component Level Variables
15:32 – Color Scaling Nodes

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In this episode of Now & Next, I sit down with Mr Biscuit, a creator behind the Variable Visualizer plugin, for an open conversation about building tools, working with systems, and how technology and creativity influence each other.We talk about experiences with multi-brand setups, reflections on working with variables in Figma, and personal thoughts around AI — not as predictions or advice, but as questions and observations from hands-on work.If you enjoy thoughtful conversations about making things, experimenting with tools, and reflecting on how creative work is changing, this episode offers a different perspective to think along with.

😎 ABOUT MR. BISCUIT (Shuaiqi Sun):
Design System Architect and Hybrid Designer/Developer
🟣 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuaiqi-sun-bb3a2a12b/
🟣 YouTube: @mr.biscuit

📝 EPISODE SUMMARY:
00:00:00 – Cold open: Who is “Mr Biscuit”?
00:05:32 – Studies & moving between China, the US and Europe
00:09:40 – Teaching himself programming & first coding projects
00:14:42 – From offline apps to thinking in systems
00:19:41 – Bridging design & development (tools vs code)
00:24:42 – Building multi-brand design systems
00:33:45 – Working in China vs Europe as a designer/developer
00:39:42 – Language, localization & UI challenges in product design
00:48:05 – Deep dive: design systems, tokens & Variable Visualizer
00:57:52 – Will AI replace us? Why humans still want to be involved
01:04:42 – Who controls AI models, data and access?
01:09:41 – AI doom talk: robots talking to robots & creative work
01:22:02 – Where to follow Mr Biscuit & closing thanks

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