Notes from the work
Occasional pieces on design systems, AI-assisted build, and the things that break in between.
How do you introduce design governance without everyone hating it?
Design debt arrives one reasonable decision at a time. Fix forward, make changes visible, use the system first, and watch whether behaviour actually changes.
What happens when a nine-year-old can build the thing he imagined?
My son first tried to build a clicker game in Scratch at seven. At nine, with AI asking him a hundred questions about his own idea, we played it.
The case of the amnesiac assistant
Why was I explaining the same thing to an AI in August that I'd already explained in March? Building a second brain, and the two times an AI quietly nearly destroyed it.
AI can do the work. That doesn't mean it can replace the worker.
Being able to produce something and being able to tell whether it is correct are two different capabilities. Why “AI can do 70% of the tasks” is not the same as removing 70% of the people.
I built the app before I designed it
I built Runway in Claude Code before I designed it. Then I tried to redesign it, and found out what building from screenshots costs you.