Notes on design, AI, interaction systems, and the future of making things. Written for people who think seriously about their craft.
There's a blind spot in how language models handle time — not just their knowledge cutoff, but within conversations themselves. They process your 9am message and your 3pm reply with identical weight, no sense of elapsed time, context shift, or mood change between them. Here's why that matters for product design.
We've spent two decades standardising visual components. The next decade belongs to standardising how products respond to human movement — and nobody is building the grammar yet.
AI is automating execution. The question isn't whether your Figma skills will be replaced — it's whether you've built the judgment that makes AI output worth anything.
I submitted Shorts Pulse to the 2026 Makeathon. It didn't win. What I learned about designing under arbitrary rules — and why constraints are the only honest brief — was worth more than the prize money.
The best interactions are the ones users never notice. As AI agents begin to handle more of the UI layer, the designer's job shifts from making things visible to making intent legible.
Design systems decay from the moment they ship. The question isn't whether yours is stale — it's whether your team has the discipline to evolve it without breaking everything.
Tools can pick fonts. They can pair them, size them, and kern them with mathematical precision. What they cannot do is feel the weight of a word — and that gap is where craft still lives.
Most designers treat their portfolio as a collection of work. The ones who land the best roles treat it as a single, coherent argument about who they are and what they believe design is for.
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