The Designer's Arcana v0.1 A working designer’s tarot. About
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A tarot for people who ship. Seventy-eight cards for the parts of being a product designer no one warns you about.

The major arcana is a career, told as an arc, from The Junior, opening a blank Figma file with infinite optimism, to The Promotion, which may or may not arrive. The minor arcana is the daily work, split across four suits.

Pencils
Vision · Strategy · Roadmaps
Mugs
People · Empathy · Stakeholders
Cursors
Critique · Decisions · Comments
Pixels
Craft · Components · Polish

Each card pairs a classic divination symbol with a modern product artifact, held with a straight face, a crescent moon over a chat bubble, a sunburst behind a status dashboard. You read the ceremony first and the joke second.

The deck is illustrated one plate at a time. Right now 6 of 78 cards are revealed; the rest wait face-down. Check back as the deck fills in.

Created by Peter Polgar · The Designer's Arcana v0.1