The technology conversation was already moving, but I wanted to add product.
That request felt a little out of left field. It also followed the shape my work had taken over the previous eighteen months. I had been managing designers and product owners alongside the technology work. I had been using value canvases and business model canvases to think through what we were building and why.
The lines between the disciplines were no longer especially sharp from where I stood. Technology determined what we could make. Design shaped how it worked for people. Product connected those decisions to the problem, the priorities, and the business around them.
I wanted to understand more of that connection.
The question was exploratory, but it was specific.
So I asked InVision whether I could speak with someone in product as well. I was interested in learning how that part of the company worked, and I was open about wondering whether there could be an opportunity there sometime in the future.
It was not a fully formed plan or a declaration that I was changing directions. It was a question raised by the work I was already doing. My role had widened, and I wanted the conversation to reflect that.
The introduction was arranged. My reply was brief: it sounded great, and I was looking forward to the conversation.
That was enough for the moment. I had noticed that the product side of the work held my attention, and I had asked to learn more about it.