Creations
Links to things I made for fun.
A Brilliant Noise
Playing with text and image generating LLMs to create an ever evolving science fiction storyline.
Aperture
My amateur snaps gallery where I pretend to be a pro photographer.
Endlesss Studio OSC
Fully-featured TOUCH OSC controller for Endlesss Studio, the multiplayer music app for MacOS.
Ramps
My quirky gradient generator. Because we all want more color.
Read
A list of my all-time favourite books.
Strategy Schmategy
A random design strategy generator. For when you want to leave success to chance!
Selections
A fancy discovery app for my many many Spotify playlists. Warning: May contain questionable music choices!
Design Tools
Links to things I made for work.
A11y Pixel
Invisible Figma component to help document Accessibility attributes in design files at any level of specificity.
Bones
Experimenting with Design Systems on Storybook
ChattyFile
Chrome Extension to upload larger text files to ChatGPT, piece-by-piece.
Science Fiction
Fake science data that looks real. Perfect for making your science app mockups look legit!
Spectra
Color palette magic for design systems. A little color helper elf for interfaces.
Discussions
Links to my favourite articles, podcasts & public speaking.
Addressing Bugbears in Peer Review
Industry panel examining AI in academic peer review, discussing the potential benefits and challenges for scholarly publishing.
Letting the country be its own map.
Discusses how traditional design tools produce unnecessary deliverables and suggests a future where "pattern studios" support working directly with web materials.
Mastering the art of AI collaboration
Provides tips for effective AI collaboration, emphasising clear communication, specific instructions, and treating AI tools as human colleagues to achieve better results.
The best Portfolio is one that gets you hired
Guides designers to create effective portfolios through storytelling, focussing on authentic narratives about metrics, challenges and impact rather than just showing outputs.
The Prophetic Lens of Pixar's Wall-E
WALL-E depicts our likely future: a world of technological dependence, environmental ruin, and corporate control of humanity.
Traditional citations are bad for Science.
Explains why traditional academic citations are inferior to standard web links, harming SEO, readability, accessibility and machine processing.
Will AI Destroy Designer Jobs?
A deep dive into the impact of AI on design and creativity, exploring how designers can adapt an maintain human elements like vision, taste, and curiosity.
Your boss was right not to support your design
Designers must frame their work around business metrics —costs, acquisition, retention— rather than design theory to gain stakeholder support.