Thinking

On design, infrastructure, and how AI changes both.

Essays and posts on the problems worth thinking about — developer experience, AI-native workflows, and what it means to design for experts.

Ona·2025

Designing Automations: a new operating model for engineering at scale

How agent-native workflows change the interface contract between humans and the systems they build — and what that means for the designers shaping those environments.

Neon.tech·2024

Designers Who Code: Can AI End Your Papercut Backlog?

An honest look at what happens when designers get code-level autonomy through AI tools — what it unlocks, what it doesn't, and what it changes about the role.

Medium·2023

Understanding Growth Design

Growth design isn't a set of tactics — it's a discipline with its own mental model. A framework for how designers should think about activation, retention, and the moments that matter.

More writing in progress