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The Lost Art of Shipping Products

Nov 10, 2025

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3 min read

The Lost Art of Shipping Products

We lost the Art of shipping products and being the first one to market is the new obsession...Watching the presentation of the NEO Home Robot got me genuinely hyped. But behind the cinematic demo, most of what we saw wasn’t actually autonomous. About 90% of the actions were tele-operated by a human in a VR headset.

François Savard
François Savard
Google Search is dead and how we browse the web will never be the same

Oct 26, 2025

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5 min read

Google Search is dead and how we browse the web will never be the same

Remember when we used to “Google it”? That era is quietly fading out. People don’t really search anymore — they ask. Not the browser, not a forum, not a stack of open tabs but an AI. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude... whatever’s handy.We don’t browse the web, we delegate it.

François Savard
François Savard
Why I Keep Coming Back to Fintech Design

Oct 20, 2025

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3 min read

Why I Keep Coming Back to Fintech Design

I’ve worked across many industries, from lifestyle to tech to Web3. Yet, no matter where I go, I always find myself returning to Fintech. There’s something oddly beautiful about it. Design in Fintech isn’t meant to be noticed. It’s meant to disappear.

François Savard
François Savard
Banking apps used to be the holy grail of fintech — But now, maybe the best interface is no interface at all.

Oct 14, 2025

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4 min read

Banking apps used to be the holy grail of fintech — But now, maybe the best interface is no interface at all.

That was me this summer trying to complete a transaction on the laptop cause I didn't trust the app to actually work 👆🏻Let’s take Karta.io. They basically turned Telegram into a full banking front-end. You chat, you get verified, you get a card, you move money — all inside Telegram. No downloads, no dashboards, no fancy design system. Just conversation.

François Savard
François Savard
I Started Showing My Prices Publicly — It Changed Everything

Oct 7, 2025

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3 min read

I Started Showing My Prices Publicly — It Changed Everything

For years, designers have hidden their prices behind “Let’s discuss” buttons and custom quotes. I did too — until I realized how much time and trust it was costing me. So I made the switch: I put my prices right on my website for everyone to see. What happened next surprised me — especially in Singapore, where people started valuing the openness as much as the design itself. It didn’t just attract clients; it set a tone of honesty that carried through the entire relationship.

François Savard
François Savard
Scaling a Startup: Lessons from Advokatguiden/The Lawyer Guide

Sep 23, 2025

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3 min read

Scaling a Startup: Lessons from Advokatguiden/The Lawyer Guide

The Lawyer Guide kicked off in Norway 🇳🇴 back in 2020 as Advokatguiden. Immediate traction. We mixed our networking capacity with a heavy PR push, and suddenly the platform became THE tool to find and review lawyers in the country. This was a very specific product talking to the right audience. The perfect MVP 🤙🏻

François Savard
François Savard
END Agency in Le Figaro Magazine

Sep 12, 2025

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2 min read

END Agency in Le Figaro Magazine

I recently had the chance to be featured in Le Figaro Magazine, where they covered my journey as founder of END Agency — from building websites to organizing design conferences, and pushing the boundaries of what digital design can be and should be.

François Savard
François Savard
Design’s Favorite Shape Isn’t A Square

Sep 4, 2025

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3 min read

Design’s Favorite Shape Isn’t A Square

Humans love patterns. And if design has a favorite shape, it’s not the rectangle on your screen—it’s the wheel.Look at the history of products and you’ll see it repeating. Rotary phones, Braun T3 radios, the iPod, even the Apple TV remote. Four different decades, four different contexts, but the same circular idea at the core.The wheel keeps sneaking back in because it works.

François Savard
François Savard
Advokatguiden / The Lawyer Guide: Expanding Transparency in the Legal World

Aug 20, 2025

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5 min read

Advokatguiden / The Lawyer Guide: Expanding Transparency in the Legal World

Founded in 2020, Advokatguiden (known internationally as The Lawyer Guide) started in Norway with a simple mission: make the legal profession more transparent and accessible.

François Savard
François Savard
Everywhere you look, color is disappearing. And that’s a problem.

Aug 12, 2025

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4 min read

Everywhere you look, color is disappearing. And that’s a problem.

Cars are now 80 percent grayscale. Cinema drenches vibrant sets in blue-gray monotony. Brands ditch bold logos for meek neutrals. Architecture repeats beige-glass-steel grids with robotic uniformity. Minimalism has gone on autopilot.

François Savard
François Savard
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