Balancing Information Density in Software

Thoughts about data ink in modern software design.

Using Figma variants for better error handling design

Documenting a fundamental yet often-overlooked aspect of product design.

Viget Design Ethics

I led the creation of Viget's internal and external codes of ethics.

Seeing the Forest: Using Treejack for Multi-language Navigation Testing

Using Treejack to test navigation iterations across different languages.

Web Brutalism, Seamfulness, and Notion

How a tool for sensemaking reconciles two distinct software design ideologies.

Collaborative Information Architecture at Scale

Notes on doing IA with way more content than you can handle.

Usable, Beautiful, Good

Reflections on what it means to design for good this late in the game.

Product Design Resources

Publications, people, and practices I’ve found useful over the years.

Tech Ethics for the Rest of Us

Overcoming the crisis of ethical debt in the design industry.

Mark Lombardi and the Moral Lives of Graphs

An artist's attempt to visualized hidden networks of power.

Of Note: Better Text Annotations for the Web

Why 538's annotation pattern should be the standard.

One Designer's Response to Khoi Vinh's Complaint

He gets most things right, but not the current state of design criticism.

Notes on a Concert Schedule

Thoughts on the information design of an unassuming flyer.

Shame the Confirmshamers

Another dark pattern the web doesn't need.