Store colors as algorithms not hexes
Introducing dtg, a design token generator for color systems
What Is Everyone Actually Doing With AI?
A survey of 107 about how people use AI
Why I’m building Sunnyday
A platform for repeatable, reliable agents
10 thoughts about AI in 2026
A designer's vantage point on AI
Usefulness and Design
Examining design’s relationship to usefulness
2025 Predictions
Making predictions is a fool's errand, but here we are.
Design Still Matters
Advocating for the design perspective
A new direction of working
LLMs will change the way we build software
Good Products
Six principles to make us go yeah
Site changelog
Designing the Ship of Theseus
Trust your users
Alternate title: software should be harder to use
Communication is half the work
A missive to say more, write more
2024 Predictions
Predicting the future, now with AI
Play, make, or not
I'm building an app and I'm not going to ship it.
Thinking out loud: design prototyping
A design tool for the next decade?
UI paradigms for AI
AI introduces new challenges for design so let's talk about them
Three musings on AI
The rise, the use, and the optimism
How to build the next big social media platform (2020)
Or how not to not succeed in building new social media.
On Product Management & Design
Reflecting on the two roles that I hold close to my heart
Change is Social
Two things about working that I've changed my mind on
A critique of Design
Thinking through what we do and why we can do better
Top Reads of 2021
My top five recommendations for the soul
Design notes
Release notes for the March 2021 design iteration
Renewal
A reflection on current times
Redesign log: Grid and Type
How I think about grid and type in this design.
Redesign, circa 2020
Looking back and looking forward at why I'm doing this design.
More thoughts on Go-To-Market
Allow the go to market to direct the product development cycle and lead the product into the hands of those who need it the most.
The Go-To-Market factor
The most crucial consideration in shipping new products is considering the go to market strategy.
Instagram Stories and Snapchat
My hypothesis on why Instagram Stories took users away from Snapchat.
Meditations on Product Design
A collection of unorganized thoughts on the current state of product design.
Less clicking, more doing
A blog post for Honeycomb about how we think about designing the new navigation in the product.
Humble UX
Maybe what design really needs is humility.
Bundle of thoughts
I gazed at myself in the mirror.
Frames
Frames of memories
Amateur, once more
Being an amateaur once more
Art, technology
Standing on the crossroads of art and technology.
Something, everything, then nothing at all
In memory of.
On writing
I have some thoughts on writing.
Errors and frustrations
A parable about errors and frustrations.
In remembrance of 2012
Another year, in rememberance of 2012.