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Thoughts on design & leadership

Essays, journals, and experiments from a working practice.

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UX 2.0 Is a Thinking Problem

Everyone is asking which AI tools designers should learn. Nobody is asking whether the role itself needs to change.

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Leading Design

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Leading Design

The Designer Who Runs the Room

Authority in a design team is quieter than it looks — and it is mostly built before the meeting starts.

Leadership
Feb 12, 202617 min read
Leading Design

Why Most Design Teams Address Symptoms

The real problem is rarely the one on the ticket. Leading design is learning to look one level up.

Systems
Jan 22, 202612 min read
Leading Design

The Quiet Authority Problem

Loud teams aren't strong teams. The strongest direction is usually the calmest one in the room.

Craft
Mar 8, 202614 min read

The UX 2.0 Series

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UX Industry

A Discipline Reset

UX 1.0 was built around scarcity. AI dissolved the scarcity entirely.

Reframe
Mar 4, 202614 min read
For Designers

Burnout Lives Below Workload

The fix is rarely fewer tasks. It is usually a clearer sense of what the work is for.

Practice
Apr 2, 20269 min read
Leading Design

The New Generalist

Specialists are quietly losing ground. Range is becoming the senior skill again.

Roles
May 5, 202611 min read
UX Industry

What a Post-AI Workflow Looks Like

The designers thriving now changed how they think before how they work.

Workflow
Mar 28, 202611 min read
For Designers

Notes Toward a Practice

A working set of principles for designing with restraint.

Craft
May 30, 20267 min read
Leading Design

The Coaching Designer

The strongest leaders develop people the way they develop products.

Coaching
Jun 1, 20268 min read