Mathieu spent ten years at Adobe, five of them building Spectrum, the design system that went from two Illustrator files to a team of seventeen. He is now Head of Design at Photoroom, where he built the design team from two part-time designers and led the rebrand alongside KLIMB

In this episode he explains why junior designers are under more pressure than ever, why he has never looked at a diploma when hiring, and the three things he actually looks for in a portfolio: communication, the ability to simplify, and a spark

We also talk about the wireframes he could tell were made with Claude, the hundreds of interviews where every designer runs the exact same method, why Adobe never had to justify the ROI of its design system, and how to change a brand without users losing their app icon

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