Writing
Notes on how the work gets made — the arguments worth having about design systems, dashboards, and the week that produces nothing.
Five essays — 2024 to 2026
All essays
Newest first.
See the work-
What a design system owes you
Two failed systems, one adopted one, and the difference that turned out to be documentation rather than code.
March 2026
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Against the dashboard
Most dashboards are a way of avoiding the harder question of what the user actually came to find out.
November 2025
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Reading the codebase first
The first week on a new project is worth more spent reading than shipping, and it almost never is.
June 2025
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The interface that explains itself
If a screen needs a tooltip to be understood, the tooltip is a bug report you wrote yourself.
September 2024
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Shipping on a slow week
Working alone means some weeks produce nothing, and the useful skill is telling the two kinds of nothing apart.
February 2024