Ux Design

How structured emergence solves manager burnout, team bottlenecks, and systemic design debtObserving the flock based on how individual biological behaviors aggregate into structured group intelligence (image source:

Two generations learned what a thinking machine looks like from a production line of individuals and the picture is not holding. AI assisted.The saga imagined thinking machines as immortal individuals in metal bodies. Real AI showed up as copyable software, and every difference is worth understanding.

We grew up with the droids. R2-D2 beeping through a firefight, C-3P...

10 controversies and a brief history of the Framer marketplace

Full disclosure, I do not work at Framer, nor do I have any affiliation with them. I’m just a regular creator who has been in the space for a while and watched the evolution unfold in real time.

I sold my first Framer template in April 2023. That was over 3 years ago. I’ve been in the Framer space si...

How models change what we notice, question, and understandTiny furniture

[Content warning: This article contains images of miniature death scenes.]

I recently started building a miniature house in my free time. I am clumsy and have messed up a lot of things, but I still find the process therapeutic. Part of it is how cute everything looks at that scale. The worl...

The trusted face is the mask, but the machine underneath doesn’t know when it’s wrong, and that’s exactly what you won’t check.The more we trust a name, the less we question the machine wearing it, and the more that name has to lose when the machine is confidently wrong.

A few weeks ago my team spent an hour arguing about whether to lie to people.

We were design...