Writing
Notes on interface craft, design systems, and the parts of the work that resist being turned into a process. Roughly monthly, when something is worth thinking through properly.
All writing
Five entries so far. I would rather publish rarely and mean it.
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18 March 20266 min read
The interface that explains itself
Tooltips are a tax on a design that did not finish its job. A short argument for spending the explanation budget on the thing itself.
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2 February 20265 min read
Designing for the second visit
Onboarding gets the attention and the budget. The second session is where products are actually won or lost.
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9 December 20257 min read
What a design system owes its users
A system that is easier to fight than to follow will be fought. Notes on adoption, escape hatches, and the myth of coverage.
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21 October 20254 min read
Notes on pacing a landing page
Most weak landing pages are not ugly. They are evenly spaced, and evenness reads as indifference.
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3 September 20256 min read
Against the dashboard
The default answer to any data question has become a grid of charts nobody reads. There is usually a better shape.
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