Theme
Systems Thinking
Patterns, convergence, and emergent order in designed systems
27 essays
Lagom And The Art Of Development
On sufficiency, judgement and the responsibility of knowing what is enough.
The Decisions Between Interactions
On Handovers, Agents And The Quiet Shift In Where Software Evidenced Value
AI Coding Is Still Single-Player
AI-assisted development has made individual developers faster. It still has not given teams a real way to form shared judgment.
The Fable Of Rational Systems
Why Organisations Explain Decisions Better Than They Make Them
It Only Looks Like Thinking
Conversational Interfaces Don’t Enable Reasoning. They Stabilise Habit In Language
Habit Is The Interface
You Are Not Designing Decisions. You Are Designing What Stops Being A Decision
Why Software Is Starting to Work Like a Restaurant
How AI Is Turning Users From Chefs Into Critics
When Words Scale Faster Than Meaning
Most Organisations Aren’t Aligned. They Just Use The Same Words.
Reuse: From Copy-Paste to Shared Capability
How Reuse Evolves, Why It Fails, And What “Shared” Really Costs.
Your Design System Can’t Fix This
Parallel Truth And The Illusion Of Consistency
Designing For Regret
Treating “I wish I hadn’t” As A First-Class Design Input
Decision Theatre
The Architecture Of Visible Control
In Defence of Friction (Sometimes)
When smooth systems reduce judgement
The Next Scarce Skill: Curation
Why “Picking The Signal From The Noise” Becomes The Job Description In An AI-saturated World
The Articulation Gap
Saying What You Mean When It Actually Counts
Atomic Content
Building for humans, machines, and everything in between
The Law and the Logo
When every brand eventually becomes a template
The Crabs Keep Winning
What Carcinisation Teaches Us About User Interfaces
The Art of Simplicity
Sculpting Better Products
Predictive Complexity
When interfaces stop reacting and start expecting.
Building Something Nobody Wants
Or: The Circle We Keep Forgetting
Adaptive Complexity
When interfaces learn to bend, not break.
Explorers and Settlers
Creation, Maintenance, and the Meaning Between Them
AI Doesn’t Need Taste – It’s Defining It
“Sure, AI can copy,” someone says. “But it can’t do taste.”
When Search Stops Sending: Designing for an AI-First Google
What designers can learn from Google’s quiet shift to answer-first search.
Vibe Coding for Designers Part 1: Bringing Your Vision to Life with Cursor
Vibe Coding for Designers: Bringing Your Vision to Life with Cursor
Progressive Complexity
“In the design of interfaces one must also consider carefully how one selectively informs a user about a particular system, providing…