This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities of decolonial design in postcolonial settings through a short cross-cultural project, building upon the methods and process behind my fieldwork with my Costa Rican family and the Indigenous Huetar community of Quitirrisí. As the extended study into the intersectional identities of my positionality and of the stakeholders shines a light on the power imbalance and ethical dilemmas, I put my role as a non-Indigenous mestizo designer in discussion, while continuing the ethnographic work in the postcolonial society. This results in critical observations for decolonial design and in the design of tools to support reflexivity and research in preparation to engage with a community from a different culture.