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The part of design that holds everything together.

I join product teams during the messy growth phase, when what you need isn’t more features but someone making sure it all makes sense.

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About

Rift Labs is a freelance-led design practice, led by Lucia Galli. I’m a product designer with a graphic design degree who went deep enough into full-stack development to understand how things get built. That’s what pulled me into product design, and it’s why I don’t really separate how something looks from how it works. I’ve spent years inside startup product teams, sitting next to engineering, making sure the product still feels like one thing as the team and codebase grow. I care a lot about whether a design decision will age well or become someone else’s problem. Currently finishing a Master’s in Digital Business to sharpen the strategy I already bring to every product decision.

Process

  1. 01 Embed

    I join your team. Not as a vendor, but as a collaborator. I learn the codebase, the workflows, the weird decisions that got you here.

  2. 02 Focus

    Most of the time, one good decision fixes three scattered problems. I find where effort actually compounds.

  3. 03 Build forward

    I leave you with systems and patterns your team can extend on their own. The point is stronger foundations, not a dependency on me.

We’re a good fit if:

  • Your product is scaling faster than the experience can keep up. Features ship but coherence doesn’t.

  • You’re shipping continuously, but the product is starting to feel assembled rather than designed.

  • You need a principal product designer embedded in the team without committing to a full-time hire.

  • Design debt is slowing your engineers down. The same decisions get re-made every sprint.

  • A significant launch is coming and the product foundations need to hold under pressure.

  • The product has grown across surfaces and it no longer feels like one coherent thing.

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I work best with product teams in the middle of growing. If that sounds like yours, I’d love to hear about it.