Writing

Published thinking

Articles, white papers, and adapted talks on design systems, leadership, and building with AI.

  1. A Case for Adding Healthy Friction into AI Workflows

    Why the best AI workflows push back, and how alignment through debate delivers better quality than frictionless speed.

  2. Beyond the Vibe: Building AI Workflows That Work

    A hackathon showed me AI doesn't scale on speed. It scales on structure.

  3. Invisible Hands and the Everything Bagel

    Why the best customer experiences are emergent; born from friction.

  4. Reducing the Support Load of Your Design System

    The 1,647 hours of unplanned support work — where it comes from, and how to cut it.

  5. Scaling Your Design System

    Lessons from scaling Kite across five organizations and forty-plus teams.

  6. What's Your ProtoTYPE? Picking the Proper Prototype to Suit the Task

    Choosing the right kind of prototype for the question you're actually trying to answer.

  7. Responsive Web Design: Much More Than Media Queries

    Why responsive design is an experience-and-process problem, not just a CSS one.

  8. Control: Dialing In the Digital Experience

    How a sense of control shapes an experience — agency, learned helplessness, and the research behind them.

  9. What Movie UIs Say About the Future

    What science-fiction interfaces get right — and wrong — about where real interaction design is heading.