Out in the OUTER RIM, in MELBOURNE, a product designer known as MARCUS IOANE has served the craft for more than a decade, building products for startups and scaleups from strategy to shipped release, and collecting a dangerous fondness for the hard problems in between.

His journey began with years of service in the agency ranks before defecting to the startup and scaleup frontier. His tertiary training in BUSINESS, PSYCHOLOGY & TECHNOLOGY helped him achieve the rank of HEAD OF DESIGN & PRODUCT. Although a gifted commander, he quickly realised he would rather pilot his own X-wing than command the fleet.

For the last TWO YEARS he has been stationed aboard EATCLUB, where he serves as PRODUCT DESIGNER, leading design for the CONSUMER & LOYALTY squadrons and building the AI processes and tooling that keep the mission moving.

Beyond the flagship he commands a second post: RADLABS, his own research and development outpost. There he trains, as the old masters did, in creativity and technology, taking on the side quests that call to him and the problems that trouble his own community. Some become tools. Some become lessons. All of them deepen his connection to the craft, and ready him for whatever comes next.

Now a new transmission arrives. Somewhere, a crew is building something that matters and could use a designer who can hold the whole problem, from the business case to the last pixel. His post aboard the flagship is not in question. But the outpost has room for one more mission. He checks the coordinates, and opens Figma once more…