The Conversations Are Real Even If the Relationship Is Strange
AI has filled some of the space colleagues once occupied in my workday. WordCamp Canada reminded me why community and real human connection still matter.
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The Architecture of a Good Type System
I’m teaching a few classes, which is how many of these posts begin. Preparing to teach forces me…
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Creativity Needs a Foundation
Sometimes people assume I’m all over the place. I understand why. I move between strategy, design, technology, systems…
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Why the Concept Never Quite Survives the Build
There is a particular kind of website project that looks great all the way through the pitch, the…
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You Don’t Read Websites. You Scan Them.
Eye-tracking research on how people actually read a page — and why it's what I'm actually thinking about…
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Why I built five Design Guidelines at once
I rebuilt five colour palettes at the same time to find out what actually makes a system a…
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My Website Is a Guinea Pig and I’m Fine With That
Nothing reaches a client site until it has survived two rounds of me trying to break it somewhere…
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People I work with joke about this. They pull something up on a call and apologize for how many tabs they have open, half laughing, half embarassed. I get it. When I'm building a design system, the tabs. Omg, the tabs.
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What I Learned From Living in My Basement
This summer, I moved into my basement.
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What Does Excellence Look Like Right Now?
I've been thinking about what happens when the ground shifts underneath you. Not dramatically, necessarily. Sometimes it's just…
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What Happens When You Stop Designing for Everyone?
Berlin made me think differently about design.
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The platforms change. The fundamentals don’t.
Six months deep into AI tooling and I came out thinking about the fundamentals of development more than…
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The work isn’t what takes the time
Most of what slows a project down isn't the work itself. It's the stuff around the work: the…
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Why I rebuilt my Design Guidelines
The new LKI online experience went live in April 2026. The reason I rebuilt it isn't the reason…
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Working with entrepreneurs and makers
Working alongside entrepreneurs and makers has shaped not just how I design — but how I think.
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Designing with People Not for Them
Good design doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s built through conversation, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose.
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You can’t direct what you don’t understand
AI is changing how work gets done faster than almost anything before it. That's not really up for…
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Muddling through
Leadership wasn't something I studied or set out to master. It's something I learned by doing. I didn't…
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Going back to the code
Not long ago, building a custom online experience meant hand-coding every page, waiting on a developer for every…
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