Writing on craft, leadership, and AI.

Long-form essays and shorter field notes on what changes, and what stubbornly doesn't, when intelligent machines join the work.
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Taste Is Not a Gift

A field guide for design leaders in the age of AI. Five registers of judgment, working from the body up. Why taste is a system, not a sense, when AI commoditizes speed.

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9 pieces
SeriesDesigning for AI · Bootcamp, 2024 · with Kristina Rakestraw

Why the prompt came back. A look at HCI history and what early command-line interfaces predicted about how we now talk to software.

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What is happening under the hood, in plain language. Models, neural networks, and the five layers of generative AI, so designers can argue for the right experience.

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Seven principles for AI experiences that build trust. The technology moves fast; core human needs do not.

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AI's quiet work across healthcare, travel, autonomous vehicles, creative content, and eCommerce.

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The shift from command-and-control to goal-and-intent, and the concrete UI patterns emerging to support it.

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AI as Robin to your Batman. The tools that speed up research, brainstorming, asset generation, and storytelling without replacing the craft.

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How we turned a critique meeting that had quietly lost its purpose, and 2,800 hours a year, into a peer-led collaboration model built for a tripling, remote team.

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The fundamentals behind dashboards people can actually read. Harmony, hierarchy, semantics, and accessibility, in service of comprehension over decoration.

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