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Putting thoughts to words help me work through them. I write about my experiences, processes, and any other things that come to mind.

  • Usefulness and Design
    May 2025

    Examining design’s relationship to usefulness

  • 2025 Predictions
    Jan 2025

    Making predictions is a fool's errand, but here we are.

  • Design Still Matters
    Dec 2024

    Advocating for the design perspective

  • A new direction of working
    Sep 2024

    LLMs will change the way we build software

  • Good Products
    May 2024

    Six principles to make us go yeah

  • Site changelog
    Feb 2024

    Designing the Ship of Theseus

  • Trust your users
    Feb 2024

    Alternate title: software should be harder to use

  • Communication is half the work
    Jan 2024

    A missive to say more, write more

  • 2024 Predictions
    Dec 2023

    Predicting the future, now with AI

  • Play, make, or not
    Dec 2023

    I'm building an app and I'm not going to ship it.

  • Thinking out loud: design prototyping
    Aug 2023

    A design tool for the next decade?

  • UI paradigms for AI
    Jul 2023

    AI introduces new challenges for design so let's talk about them

  • Three musings on AI
    Jul 2023

    The rise, the use, and the optimism

  • How to build the next big social media platform (2020)
    Jul 2023

    Or how not to not succeed in building new social media.

  • On Product Management & Design
    May 2022

    Reflecting on the two roles that I hold close to my heart

  • Change is Social
    Mar 2022

    Two things about working that I've changed my mind on

  • A critique of Design
    Feb 2022

    Thinking through what we do and why we can do better

  • Top Reads of 2021
    Jan 2022

    My top five recommendations for the soul

  • Design notes
    Mar 2021

    Release notes for the March 2021 design iteration

  • Renewal
    Feb 2021

    A reflection on current times

  • Redesign log: Grid and Type
    Jul 2020

    How I think about grid and type in this design.

  • Redesign, circa 2020
    Feb 2020

    Looking back and looking forward at why I'm doing this design.

  • More thoughts on Go-To-Market
    Nov 2018

    Allow the go to market to direct the product development cycle and lead the product...

  • The Go-To-Market factor
    Nov 2018

    The most crucial consideration in shipping new products is considering the go to market strategy....

  • Instagram Stories and Snapchat
    Nov 2018

    My hypothesis on why Instagram Stories took users away from Snapchat.

  • Meditations on Product Design
    Nov 2018

    A collection of unorganized thoughts on the current state of product design.

  • Less clicking, more doing
    Sep 2018

    A blog post for Honeycomb about how we think about designing the new navigation in...

  • Humble UX
    Jun 2014

    Maybe what design really needs is humility.

  • Bundle of thoughts
    Jan 2014

    I gazed at myself in the mirror.

  • Frames
    Dec 2013

    Frames of memories

  • Amateur, once more
    Sep 2013

    Being an amateaur once more

  • Art, technology
    Sep 2013

    Standing on the crossroads of art and technology.

  • Something, everything, then nothing at all
    Jun 2013

    In memory of.

  • On writing
    Jun 2013

    I have some thoughts on writing.

  • Errors and frustrations
    Mar 2013

    A parable about errors and frustrations.

  • In remembrance of 2012
    Jan 2013

    Another year, in rememberance of 2012.

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