
Design your work. Design your systems. Design your life.
I'm Nicole , founder of Noran Design, educator, and community builder. I help designers, builders, and intentional people to iterate on their design, career, and business.
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Hi, I'm Nicole.

I believe your career, systems, and life are all designable. Not fixed, designable through small experiments, deliberate iteration, and the same thinking I apply to the best product work.
I’m a designer, educator, founder, and product thinker based in the UK.
Over the past few years, I’ve built a 6-figure design studio, worked in AI product at Expedia Group, taught over 1,600 students, and learned a lot about design, business, systems, money, creativity, and building a life with intention.
But I didn’t start with everything figured out.
A lot of what I know came from learning things the hard way: through trial, reflection, mistakes, experiments, and slowly building better systems for my work and life.
Now, I’m passionate about sharing what I’ve learned with people who would benefit from it.
Especially designers, founders, creatives, career builders, and intentional people who know they are capable of more, but want more clarity, structure, and support along the way.
Through my writing, courses, community, and coaching, I help people build better work, better systems, and a more intentional life.
Not by chasing constant productivity.
But by learning how to think better, design better, and iterate with more care.
What I do
Release Notes for Life is where I share the ideas, systems, and frameworks behind my work.
It is built around three things: teaching, coaching, and writing.

Teach
Practical courses for modern creative work
I create courses that help designers, founders, marketers, and knowledge workers build better systems using tools like Canva, Framer, Claude, Notion, and AI.

Coach
A room for people building with direction
Through The Iterative Club, I host coaching calls, feedback sessions, critique, and community conversations for people who are actively building their careers, creative work, businesses, and systems.

Write
Notes on calm ambition and intentional living
Every week, I write about design thinking for life, systems that actually support you, and a calmer way to think about ambition, growth, creativity, and work.
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Weekly notes from Nicole

Ideas on calm ambition, design thinking, systems, and intentional living

Practical frameworks you can apply to your work and life

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The Iterative Club
For people who want to go deeper with coaching, feedback, courses, and community.
£49
/month | Expires on 14 July
What's included:

Biweekly coaching calls with me

Ask Me Anything sessions

Design, UX, portfolio, and proposal feedback

AI prompts, templates, frameworks, and resource library

Jobs, collabs, and peer support space

Monthly guest speakers and session recordings

