On building the Design Engineer course
You may or may not be familiar with my d×e site. It’s a labour of love that I let stall for far too long. My buddy Hugo and I put it together over 2 years...
The portfolio case study lie
Let me be blunt: your marathon case study isn't impressive. It's exhausting. If you think burying hiring managers under an avalanche of words will land you a...
Weekly Links — 17th December 2025
🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus If you’ve got just ten minutes to read, pick two from these Articulating design decisions AI Can Write Your Code....
On simplifying and migrating this site
Over the past few days, I migrated my personal website from Next.js to Astro, and moved hosting from Vercel to Cloudflare Pages. The decision came from...
On Headspaces
I was listening to a podcast with Matthew McConaughey recently, and it really opened my eyes when I heard about how he reads and learns scripts for roles....
On clickbait titles
Clickbait claims like 99% of people don't do this have zero evidence behind them, yet we keep falling for it
Weekly Links — 10th December 2025
🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus If you’ve got just ten minutes to read, pick two from these A Responsibility To The Industry Own a graph The...
On the power of sharing habits with your team
At our recent company meetup, a colleague closed the week with a short session: each of us shared practical habits we use at work. It wasn’t about design...
Weekly Links — 1st December 2025
Merry December to you all. 🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus If you’ve got just ten minutes to read, pick two from these Creativity is human Let...
Weekly Links — 26th November 2025
🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus If you’ve got just ten minutes to read, pick two from these State of Product Design Ornament and culture What AI...
Weekly Links — 26th November 2025
🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus If you’ve got just ten minutes to read, pick two from these State of Product Design Ornament and culture What AI...
On balancing creativity and logical reasoning
I recently came across an old presentation I did for my team about finding the right balance between creativity and logical reasoning. As a fully remote team...
Weekly Links — 19th November 2025
🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗 A lot of links this week to make up for missing last week (I was out at our all company meet-up in Atlanta). 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus If...
Weekly Links — 3rd November 2025
🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus If you’ve got just ten minutes to read, pick two from these 1. Product Designer's workflow for prototyping with...
On weekly links
You may have seen yesterday’s Weekly Links and wondered why I’ve bothered writing yet another link-based newsletter… well… I’ve not (kinda). I’ve been...
Weekly Links — 29th Oct 2025
🔗 Weekly Design Links 🔗 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus If you’ve got just ten minutes to read, pick two from these 1. Beyond the Machine (this is SO worth reading, it's...
On 80s Horror Practical Effects
I absolutely love 1980s horror cinema. I always have. In fact, 80s horror, action, and comedy, are my favourite movies period. For horror in particular,...
On Vibe Coding
This is the post I would have written if I’d not been lazy. Extracting a quote of a quote inside this article. > [Keep] a very tight leash on this new over-...
Code as Design
How development can be learned through a design lens (and how I managed it) I've said it before, but I am primarily a designer. From an early age I was...
Design as Code
What learning Vue has taught me about the future of design. So let's start with some background; I've been tinkering with website code since the early 2000s...
