The Constraint Was the Brief
How treating severe constraints as the brief can clarify the problem, reject familiar patterns, and produce a better product.
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Intention Deficit Disorder
How AI products accumulate intent debt when they misread users, and how design teams can identify, measure, and prevent it.
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Company of One
How a working agent harness uses bounded delegation, explicit checks, and honest cost accounting to make uncertain behavior easier to inspect.
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Cut, Defer or Build
A practical framework for deciding what an early product should cut, defer, or build when ambition outruns time and budget.
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Product Design Principles
How research-grounded design principles resolve real trade-offs, survive delivery pressure, and actively shape product decisions.
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Embedded Product Design Lessons
Lessons in research, workflow structure, and delivery from embedding with product teams across complex commercial design projects.
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What Makes a Real MVP?
Why a real MVP is not the smallest demo, but the smallest complete journey a user can finish clearly and with confidence.
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You Always Let Yourself Win
Why designers need evals to define product quality, expose weak outputs, and keep AI experiences useful, clear, and trustworthy.
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Two-Dollar Bill
What a two-dollar agent mistake revealed about cost visibility, operational trust, and why autonomous systems must earn freedom.
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A Free Surf Lesson
Why design judgment needs systems understanding and hands-on execution, with a sleep-player example showing how constraints shape the work.
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Showing My Teeth
A personal account of professional loss, family crisis, survival, and choosing integrity when the design industry turns hostile.
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