About
Francesco Puppo (Fran) is a product and UX design leader and currently the Head of UX Design at the EV smart charging platform GreenFlux, bringing over a decade of experience in leading international teams and designing complex B2B platform experiences.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Turin in Italy and spent 6 years working in 3D design before pivoting to digital product design. Early in his career at creative agency Spotzer, he progressed from web designer to Head of Design, managing a team of over 30 designers. He later worked as an independent consultant focusing on brand and editorial projects before fully dedicating his focus since 2016 to design leadership, scaling design systems, and streamlining collaborative workflows. He is currently based in Amsterdam and works remotely.
On his personal website iamfran.com (Fran’s Realm), he writes thoughtfully about product design, design systems, tool workflows, bouldering, travel, reading, and personal reflections. Built with Astro, his site features in-depth app reviews, creative inspiration, productivity tools, and design leadership insights, recognized for its refined aesthetics and distinctive writing style.
You can also find Francesco Puppo on:
- Website: https://iamfran.com
- LinkedIn: francescopuppo
- Bluesky: iamfran.bsky.social
- Email: [email protected]
Articles
- Waterfall climb, March 2024
- Drawing Tula
- Aqueux wallpapers
- Mood camera
- Using CalVer to mark releases
- A dyno dino
- A rant about a self-help book
- A markdown linter for Bear
- A few things I'd like to see in Bear
- Todoist is retiring the Goals feature
- Climbing is different
- Pantelleria, May 2026
- iA Writer 8
- Things I look for when hiring a new designer
- Ice Skating in Sweden, Feb 2026
- Jugband Blues
- MarkdownDO: Manage tasks from your terminal
- The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
- Who's the murderer? And how do you top this?
- Using mdt to manage project tasks
- A Flexoki theme for Marp
- Working with AI
- There's a Flexoki theme for Nova
- Working with Claude Code (Jan 2026)
- Shortcuts: Saving markdown files
- Amsterdam under the snow
- A small logo update
- It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
- It's always nice to go back to Turin
- Apps defaults (2025)
- It should've been a movie...
- Top 25 movies (2000–2025)
- Klosters's snowy mountains
- Books I've read in 2025
- File over app
- On the way to Val di Mello
- Liquid Glass: The start of a new design language
- Apple WWDC 2025: Designing personality
- The Dades Valley
- Automatically import Reminders' inbox to Todoist [Shortcut]
- Louie Mantia on Humane
- Eagle
- Snippets of Architecture 101
- User friendly cars
- Hugo Pratt’s travel sketches (Inspiration #4)
- Semantic tokens
- Finding wilderness in the Netherlands
- Books I've read in 2024
- Mont Blanc through the clouds
- Will AI bring back traditional arts?
- Hiking the Dolomites
- ROI: cowardice vs leadership
- mymind website (Inspiration #3)
- Non-places
- Fast software is the best software
- iA Presenter
- Some notes on Apple WWDC 2024
- Sailing the Pagasetic Gulf
- Wishing for a better Apple Notes
- Things 3 and repeating tasks
- Design is not my only passion
- On the evolution of digital interfaces
- On Stephen King
- Long live opinionated design
- Get Safari URL as markdown link [Shortcut]
- The Mac as a place
- HazeOver
- I hate Netflix
- Good design takes time and effort
- Apps defaults (2024)
- Books I've read in 2023
- Andrea Pazienza (Inspiration #2)
- Writing is thinking
- Custom CSS style for ilPost.it
- Shortcuts: Split screen
- Shortcuts: Rename and resize images for the web
- Head Lopper (Inspiration #1)
- Bear 2: What's still missing
- Morocco's meat markets
- Apps defaults (2023)
- A MaxVP is a finely tuned product that has just the right amount of features
- Batman: The long Halloween and the power of comic books
- Books I've read in 2021