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Patrick Morgan

Product Design Lead at Sublime Security and founder of the Unknown Arts newsletter

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He's a hands-on design leader building AI tools and writing one of the most-read clear-eyed voices on how AI reshapes the creative process while protecting the people in it.

Signature win. At JupiterOne, redesigned the query-building experience to cut new users' time-to-first-custom-query from 21 days to 1.

The case

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CraftLeads product design at Sublime Security building AI security tools; at JupiterOne cut time-to-first-custom-query from 21 days to 1 — measurable craft judgment, not just pixels.7
CommunicationUnknown Arts newsletter (7,000+ subscribers) plus essays in Every, UX Collective, TLDR — his standout strength is making design and the AI shift legible.8
BusinessDrove a real adoption outcome (21d→1d query build) and leads design at a funded cybersecurity startup; impact is product-level rather than org-transforming exec altitude.7
Education"No Country for Junior Designers" names the people-protection problem honestly and offers onramps; weekly newsletter explicitly grows and reskills the practice.7
InnovationGenuinely building AI-powered tools and rebuilt his own portfolio hands-on with Claude Code (Astro/Tailwind/shadcn) — AI adoption that lifts his craft (elevate), not sheds it.7

Endorsed by peers

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OverallI'd work for them40
CraftRaised my craft bar39
CommunicationMade the case for design45
BusinessMade design matter to the business39
EducationTaught me something I still use39
InnovationShowed me a new way to work39

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