Writing
Notes from the desk & the road
Short pieces on design craft — usually the reasoning behind a Toybox playbook — plus travel notes, recipes, and the occasional opinion.
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AI Changed How I Think About Design Artifacts
May 30, 2026
As AI moves from output generator to collaborator, the quality of our artifacts depends less on visual polish and more on structural clarity.
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Three Labels, Six Surfaces
May 22, 2026
The smallest interaction rule I have, and the one I find myself repeating in every bulk-action review.
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The Feature I Keep Refusing to Ship
May 19, 2026
A note on subtraction — why I write up the features a product pointedly does not have, and why the next reorg is the reason.
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Notes from the Reversible Queue
May 17, 2026
Why I keep writing the same state machine into every enterprise product, and why Undo is the feature I argue hardest to keep.
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