2026

• Walkie Claudie - One Button iPhone Voice-to-Agent Shortcut

  2026-01-28

2025

• Translating Intent and the LLM Opportunity in UX

  2025-03-01

2021

• Organizational Pain Management

  2021-02-26

• Organizational Pain Management TLDR: Don’t suffer in silence

  2021-02-26

2020

• Emulating Tyler Hobbs in Flow Fields

  2020-02-17

2018

• Reflections on Leading a Team

  2018-09-04

• Google's spent the last 10 years studying the habits of effective managers. You can learn a lot from their conclusions.

  2018-08-15

2016

• Picking Bosses

  2016-11-08

• The case for H2O

  2016-01-25

• Sift Science: Lessons Learned about Building Design Culture

  2016-01-18

• A Fond Farewell

  2016-01-16

2015

• How to be a craftsperson in a startup without breaking one’s heart.

  2015-03-23

• Hernzberg for Products

  2015-02-23

• At the bottom of the valley, there's a stream.

  2015-02-07

• Ping Pong Diplomancy

  2015-02-03

• New Circumstances, New Heros

  2015-01-31

• New Circumstance, New Heroes

  2015-01-31

2014

• Letters, because I miss you.

  2014-12-25

• Communal Blocklist - How should it work?

  2014-10-24

• Communal Blocklist Day 2

  2014-10-21

• Communal Blocklist Experiment Day 1

  2014-10-20

• Reaper as Prioritizer

  2014-09-09

• Move Fast, Break Things, Feel Bad

  2014-08-16

• Consensus, Authority and Mandate

  2014-08-12

• I didn't know I was learning to code

  2014-06-25

• Software is eating the world, and other ideologies

  2014-05-22

• On Finding Flow

  2014-04-24

• Grief

  2014-03-31

• Picking Your Battles, and Convex Impact Curves

  2014-03-18

• On Not Being Hands-on

  2014-02-18

• Paypal: A Lesson in User Hostility

  2014-02-11

2013

• A Job Decision Framework

  2013-10-03

• Chipotle Got Me Through Graduate School

  2013-09-24

• What if Good Design isn't the Goal?

  2013-09-01

• Apartments in San Francisco and the Secretary Problem

  2013-08-21

• The Rationale in Five Lens

  2013-07-25

• Home was/wasn't New York City

  2013-07-23

• Startups, Entrenchment, and the Adjacent Possible

  2013-07-09

• The Death Bed Game

  2013-07-06

• momento mori

  2013-06-17

• Feminist Taylor Swift meets Feminist Kanye

  2013-06-15

• Herzberg's Hygiene and Motivational Factors

  2013-05-13

• Life Design

  2013-05-10

• Technical Write-up: Scroll Linked Animations

  2013-05-03

• (Obvious) Mobile Is Important, and Hard

  2013-04-26

• Owning Mistakes

  2013-04-22

• Launch Plan

  2013-04-20

• Another Weekend, Another Hackathon

  2013-03-04

• A Plan to spread Lessig's Plan

  2013-03-01

• Collecting Interesting Ideas...

  2013-03-01

• Three Conversations and a Pivot

  2013-02-27

• Politics and Pain

  2013-02-26

• Reading: "What Your Culture Really Says"

  2013-02-21

• The Lucky and the Unlucky

  2013-02-21

• Why I need to talk to Non-designers

  2013-02-20

• Don't Hate the Politician, Hate the Electoral Game

  2013-02-15

2012

• It's the Moments You Dread

  2012-12-19

• Hunch: Language Expansion as Measure of Learning

  2012-11-28

• A designer's letter on process, to his technical co-founder friend

  2012-11-22

• T-39: Thesis, Restated

  2012-11-19

• T-40: On the Cusp of "Build"

  2012-11-15

• T-41: Saying No and Starting Small

  2012-11-07

• T-42: A Nutritional Label

  2012-10-29

• T-43: Making Legislation Pointable

  2012-10-26

• Playing with Time Limits

  2012-10-16

• T-44: Fighting Apathy, with Death-Rays

  2012-10-15

• Thesis Metrics

  2012-10-12

• Levels of Abstraction

  2012-10-10

• T-45: Gut Churn in Public

  2012-10-09

• Ricocheting Thoughts of Thesis

  2012-10-05

• T-46: Thesis is Project L

  2012-09-30

• T-47: Getting to the Core of Thesis

  2012-09-24

• Work Philosophy

  2012-09-19

• T-48: Institution Design?

  2012-09-15

• T-49: The Outline of A Process

  2012-09-11

• The Common Class Project

  2012-09-10

• The Unreliable Narrator

  2012-09-02

• Don't Just Manufacture Desire

  2012-07-08

• T-51: The Most Consequential Design of the (20th) Century

  2012-07-04

• Metaphor-building in a Manufactured Normalcy Field

  2012-07-03

• Necessary but Insufficient

  2012-07-02

• T-52: On Music, Morals and Business Models

  2012-06-26

• T-53: Computational Thinking for Designers

  2012-06-16

• Voices in My Head

  2012-06-12

• Give A Damn

  2012-06-09

• Balance and Pace

  2012-05-08

• Eight Months of Graduate School

  2012-05-03

• T-58: A Plan for the Summer

  2012-05-02

• Fail in Public

  2012-04-25

• T-59: Work in Public

  2012-04-22

• Which Class Should I Teach?

  2012-04-19

• T-60: Shh, I'm Working

  2012-04-17

• T-61: Angry (Legal) Coder

  2012-04-08

• Skillshare Lessons Learned

  2012-04-07

• T-62: Better Dreams

  2012-04-03

• Networks and Conversations Part 2 - Connecting with James

  2012-04-02

• Networks and Conversations Part 1 - Talking to Anil

  2012-04-01

• Smoking, Spitting, and User Research

  2012-04-01

• Teaching HTML from the ground up

  2012-03-30

• Doing Science for A Dollar

  2012-03-27

• T-63: I am a product of design

  2012-03-26

• Entrepreneurial Vulnerability

  2012-03-24

• Notes for Talking to Anil

  2012-03-20

• A Twitter Model of Neural Networks

  2012-02-17

• Unbundling Ice Cream

  2012-02-09

• On why I don't feel like a designer

  2012-02-01

• Prototyping Business Design

  2012-01-24

• Empathy Challenged

  2012-01-21

• Customer Development and IxD

  2012-01-16

• Skill Tree

  2012-01-12