Writing

• Substack, October 2026 “Do It Better” Doesn’t Make You a Designer The role of design is changing dramatically for the better… no, really. I’ve been the designer who codes for over 20 years. Now that AI writes code for everyone, the designers who think in structure can take an idea all the way to a working product themselves. The tools changed. What makes a design good did not. Read on Substack →
• Medium, 2017 Change Is the Real Value of a Design System A design system only counts once its components ship in real products. Written while I was building Mineral UI at Rally Software / CA Technologies, about what made the component library stick across product teams. Read on Medium →