Now
What I'm doing
right now.
Updated April 2026
A now page is a snapshot — not a resume, not a newsletter. What I'm actually working on, thinking about, and constrained by. The concept.
Ripple Treasury nav redesign
Finalizing the interaction model for a platform that processes billions in daily treasury operations. Nav26 — the first major structural update in 8+ years.
Nodus agent orchestration
Running 17 specialized agents daily. Current focus: improving cross-agent context propagation and trust architecture for long-horizon tasks.
faramarz.xyz
You're looking at it. Dogfooding Nodus to build and iterate on the site — the design philosophy, the infrastructure, the content strategy.
Finance ontology → design semantics
FIBO has 1,346 classes. Design has string tokens. The gap is intellectual, not technical. Working through the formal layer between W3C Design Tokens and semantic reasoning.
Local-first AI infrastructure
Every serious practitioner will need a personal AI stack. The question is what trust architecture that requires — provenance, local-first storage, and context isolation that cloud tools can't provide.
Agentic design delivery
Not AI-assisted design. AI-orchestrated design delivery — where the design system, the documentation, and the production artifact are all generated from the same structured intent.
Taking select consulting
Design systems, AI infrastructure, finance-domain product design. The work that moves fastest: systems at the intersection of design and engineering.
Full-time employed
Lead Product Designer at Ripple Treasury. Side projects happen in margins — evenings, early mornings, Nodus running overnight.
Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows
The foundational text. Returns to it when product decisions feel arbitrary.
The Architecture of Privacy — Courtney Bowman et al.
Trust architecture for systems that handle sensitive data — applies directly to Nodus design.