Writing

Essays, experiments and ideas. Some stand alone, and some run as a series.

Shipping Ahead

1 part

01A widget that shows when it's out of dateHome Screen widgets can't call APIs, can't run in the background, and can't even render glass. How I designed Ahead's widget around all three.Sep 2026 · 2 min

Getting up to speed

1 part

01The listening tourNine conversations in three months, and what I actually did with the notes.Aug 2026 · 2 min

One-offs

Designing for trustE-commerce isn't only about conversion. People have to believe what the page is telling them first.Mar 2026 — ongoing · 1 min
Learning a new domain quicklyGaming, automotive, e-commerce, finance. How I get useful quickly in an industry I don't know yet.Feb 2026 — ongoing · 1 min
This siteThe ring, the nav, the work and writing switch, the eclipse, the Pokédex. Everything you can play with on this site, what's under it, and what was hard.Sep 2026 · 2 min
How I built Loops with AILoops is a notes app with friction on purpose. It holds your thinking and doesn't try to help. I built it over a few weeks of conversation with an AI.Aug 2026 · 2 min
What if product requirements doubled as prompts?An experiment with Figma Make: take a real requirements doc and see how close it gets to something you could publish.Feb 2026 · 1 min
Copilot for game studiosWhat if a studio could pull player highlights, with consent, and turn them into community posts?May 2025 · 1 min