My name is Lucian Chung, and I have thick eyebrows.
Maybe it's because I took a non-linear path where I experienced different kinds of work environments before ending up in product design. I now get to make things with smart, capable people. I just remember thinking as a child that I didn't want to have to wear a suit to work. Having worked remotely the past several years, my childhood dream is realized as I work in shorts or sweatpants everyday, depending on the season.
Sometimes. Definitely not at first. As a drawer of drawings, I hated how a single, good prompt could output an image that would take a human a lifetime to create accounting for the years of practice and honing the craft. I even resisted AI for design work at first. But there's no denying that AI has been transforming software development and unlocked so many doors for so many practitioners. Now I use AI to help me compose copy, ideate layouts and screens, demonstrate interactions, find product usage metrics, identify users for research, synthesize data, unbork my local development environment, address debt in our design system, push production code, and decide which Airbnb to book for vacation. At the time of this writing I still prefer building pixel-perfect designs in Figma, but AI is improving so much all the time.
For a few years Marvel filmed many of their movies in Georgia. Though about half of the scenes I've been in didn't make the final cut, I've been an extra in: