Writings
7 pieces on design, shipping, and building with agents.
Build small design tools for your workThere comes a moment when you're on your third prompt trying to solve a visual issue and each additional prompt gets you further from what you want. Our core instinct as designers is to manually…
Your portfolio should have a screensaverI'm a millennial which means I lived through the dial up era of the internet. My first computer was a desktop E-machines that we had in the living room. I remember unwrapping a fresh AOL CD so I can…
I made a habit tracker that pays out in gems, not streaksSweet Streaks started as a joke when I told my gf I would give her 15 points if she made it to bed by midnight. The promise of points for undisclosed future rewards seemed to have click something in…
Leaving OpenSea and what it taught me about shippingI left OpenSea in March and am taking a break before the next thing. I've spent over 4 years working in crypto which honestly feels like dog years. Every day was different, every week had new sets of…
Building a More Durable Healthcare Design Jobs BoardHealthcare design is one of the most antiquated, highly complex, and high-impact domains out there, and the problem space couldn't be more important right now. I've been following the landscape for…
Reflections on building a social appFreddie started with Pride.
Designers are best positioned to build with AIFor years we were told to "learn to code," and in a humorous plot twist the hardest parts of spinning up code have gotten abstracted away. We sit at the center of product creation: we pull…
Your portfolio should have a screensaverI'm a millennial which means I lived through the dial up era of the internet. My first computer was a desktop E-machines that we had in the living room. I remember unwrapping a fresh AOL CD so I can…I made a habit tracker that pays out in gems, not streaksSweet Streaks started as a joke when I told my gf I would give her 15 points if she made it to bed by midnight. The promise of points for undisclosed future rewards seemed to have click something in…Leaving OpenSea and what it taught me about shippingI left OpenSea in March and am taking a break before the next thing. I've spent over 4 years working in crypto which honestly feels like dog years. Every day was different, every week had new sets of…Building a More Durable Healthcare Design Jobs BoardHealthcare design is one of the most antiquated, highly complex, and high-impact domains out there, and the problem space couldn't be more important right now. I've been following the landscape for…Reflections on building a social appFreddie started with Pride.Designers are best positioned to build with AIFor years we were told to "learn to code," and in a humorous plot twist the hardest parts of spinning up code have gotten abstracted away. We sit at the center of product creation: we pull…