On having an opinion
User testing serves as a valuable tool to ensure that the product or service meets the needs and expectations of the target audience, but it’s also not the...
The Roadmap to Design Engineer
The intersection of design and engineering, particularly when coupled with the advent of AI and coding tools like Cursor and MCP, offers a transformative...
The Roadmap to Design Engineer
The intersection of design and engineering, particularly when coupled with the advent of AI and coding tools like Cursor and MCP, offers a transformative...
On having an opinion
User testing serves as a valuable tool to ensure that the product or service meets the needs and expectations of the target audience, but it’s also not the...
Designing the Invisible
Privacy isn't just a feature, it's an invisible architecture that quietly protects people while delivering seamless experiences. Working at DuckDuckGo, I've...
Siri vs. AI Chatbots
You might not believe it, but the original Siri demo was surprisingly close to the AI chatbots of today in reality. If you look back at the original 2011...
Beauty Comes From Absence
In Shinto, the indigenous Japanese religion, there’s a belief that an elements beauty can be most admired in its absence. It’s known as Ma (間) which is a...
Thoughts on Liquid Glass
Liquid Glass is a groundbreaking software design introduced by Apple for iOS 26, distinguished by its translucent and reflective qualities that seamlessly...
Full Circle
Re-reading Andy Hertzfeld's account of Bill Atkinson's algorithm for rendering rounded rectangles on the Lisa brought me back to the foundational moments of...
The Messy Middle
In product development, there’s this crucial part that can make or break a project: the space between coming up with an idea and actually making it happen....
The Problem with Design Engineering on Twitter
Design engineering has become a spectacle of visual pizzazz, but we're losing sight of what truly matters. Twitter has transformed our discipline into a...
aiOS
The future of computing isn't just about faster processors or sleeker hardware—it's about fundamentally reimagining how we interact with technology. As...
Hodo Hodo No Dezain
In the world of product design, the concept of "just enough design," or "Hodo Hodo No Dezain" as the Japanese put it, offers a refreshing and pragmatic...
CSS Animated Borders… urgh
My kingdom for CSS borders that can actually be animated… There has to be a better way? I was working on setting up a new animation for the way the...
Force Multiplying Design
As a design engineer working on AI products at DuckDuckGo, I found this post by Karri Saarinen particularly resonant. I often reflect on how AI isn’t here to...
Design Tools as a Means to an End
I sat nodding consistently as I read this article about how Figma often leads designers to avoid learning to code and wasting their hours instead on complex...
Interface as a Service
Agentic interfaces are set to revolutionise how we interact with digital systems, treating the interface as a service that interprets user input and delivers...
On the Importance of Taking a Break
We work pretty consistently throughout most of our lives, particularly if we're fortunate to have regular work available to us. In most countries, it's...
On Delight in Interfaces
I was recently working on some blue sky ideas for a few areas across various product surfaces at DuckDuckGo. As a result of this, I was thinking a lot about...
Disarming Conflict with “yes AND”
I’ve been using a cool technique lately to handle disagreements in the workplace. It’s called the “yes AND” approach, and it’s all about building on...