The thinking was never just mine
Maybe “mine” was never about origin. Maybe it was about what gets carried forward.I’ve been trying to figure out when, exactly, an idea...
Rethinking design with your hands in the AI world
Why design isn’t found in a prompt, but in toil and the creator’s “thinking hand.”In a world of automated perfection, the “thinking han...
Discovery is the work AI gives back
Productivity is the floor of AI’s value, not the ceiling. New McKinsey research on where the durable returns actually live, and what th...
Everything I know about AI, I learned from a genie
A content designer's guide to not wasting your wishes on something stupid
Users own the present. You own the future.
Users know their day. They don’t know your roadmap. Why smart users give convincing wrong answers, and how to do research that opens pr...
The prompt is not an interface
Why AI sent us back to the command line — On direct manipulation, visual intent, and the regression of AI tooling.Image generated via G...
How to make Claude Code follow your design system in Figma
4 Skills that bind every value to your design system, so you can actually iterate on what Claude builds.Claude Code can now write direc...
Why you need to protect your work more than ever
The creator’s code is dead. It’s time to replace moral outrage with something more permanent.They cooked. With your work. They scraped....
When AI decides and human signs off
The design problem most AI companies aren’t solvingThere’s a design principle underneath every high-stakes AI product: AI is the decisi...
You skipped the first question. Now you’re adding AI.
AI didn’t create the gap. It made it impossible to ignore.Intelligence inside an inherited architecture. Generated with Gemini.Last qua...