What happens just outside your focus, and why a word choice can move real behavior
Three ideas about perception, memory, and identity, and the nuance that appears when you follow them into the research.
ReadNotes on design, research, and better product decisions.
Books, research takeaways, and product lessons that shaped how I think about interfaces, systems, and real user behavior.
Tokens aren't enough: what I learned teaching AI my design system
Why design-system tokens gave AI the right values but not the product judgment needed to use them well.
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Six constraints that fixed most of the AI-generated UI I reviewed
A practical set of design-system constraints that made AI-generated product screens feel more consistent.
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Your AI design context is infrastructure, not a document
Why AI design specs need ownership, versions, and maintenance if they are going to stay useful.
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What building a design system taught me about design
Five lessons from building one design system across multiple products, teams, and audiences.
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UX books I keep recommending
A personal reading list for UX, product design, research, UI foundations, and career growth.
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A travel companion through design, art, and time
A personal note on Sean Adams' How Design Makes Us Think: And Feel and Do Things, and why it felt like the right book to carry through Italy.
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Cognitive bias in user research
My reading note on how cognitive bias can sneak into user research and quietly shape product decisions.
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