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Field notes from the studio — on design systems, AI strategy, product delivery, and the craft of shipping software.
Spot the Slop: A UI Designer's Guide to Fixing AI Defaults
I can spot AI slop in software products in about three seconds now. Inter, a purple-to-blue gradient, cards with the same corner radius everywhere. It's not ugly…
Design Isn’t Dead. It Just Got Harder to Fake.
I watched the Figma Config 2026 keynote expecting product announcements. What I got instead was the clearest picture yet of where design is heading, and…
The UX Layer That AI Can't Generate
Ask Claude to build you a dashboard and it'll give you a dashboard. Cards, charts, navigation, the works. It'll be clean. It'll be functional. It'll look…
The Return of Craft
In 1860, William Morris looked at the mass-produced furniture filling English homes and decided it was all garbage. Not because the factories couldn't…
Stop Putting a Chat Box on Everything
Every week I open a product that's added AI, and every week it's the same thing: a chat box in the bottom-right corner. Sometimes it's a sidebar.…
Taste Is the New Technical Skill
I’ve been watching friends ship products at a pace that would have been unthinkable two years ago. Whole apps, working apps, built in a weekend using new…
We Can Build Anything Now. Do We Know What to Build?
I caught myself three weeks into building Sam, an AI admin tool for Australian builders, with a feature list that could have filled a roadmap for a…
The AI-Powered Designer: A Return to Generalism
I’ve been involved in roles and projects that have had some level for the better part of 7 years. Most of those roles initially weren’t even explicitly…