Writing
Thoughts on product design, AI, and craft.
Delight in the Age of AI
Surface delight and deep delight are both human territory. AI compresses the middle — the functional, usable layer. Succeeding designers will operate across both ends.
Product Design in the Age of AI
AI is doing to software what the printing press did to manuscripts and desktop publishing did to typesetting. The barrier to making software has never been lower.
What Coco Chanel Can Teach Us About Product Design
Applying Coco Chanel's famous advice about restraint to product design. What you remove often says more than what you include.
Slow by Design: why AI's speed demands human slowness
Have we confused acceleration with innovation? Maybe we're losing the skill of slowing down to think.
Designing at warp speed
A reflection on Figma Config 2025, the shift from AI fear to creative partnership, and the tension between speed and intentional craft.
Video Games and the future of AI User Interfaces
Drawing parallels between the evolution of video game interfaces and the trajectory of AI user interfaces.
Broad Strokes to Fine Lines - moving between high and low fidelity design
The irreplaceable value of starting with lo-fidelity designs, and resisting the urge to move into polished UI too early.
Diverging and converging with AI
How AI can be our co-pilot across both divergent and convergent stages of the creative process.
Lessons from an Unpopular Digital Assistant
What Clippy's failures can teach us about designing modern AI assistants.