I'm a product designer who ships. I trained at Apple, cut my teeth in startups, and now spend most days in the middle: rigor without the slowness, speed without the mess.
My interest is the small frictions we've learned to live with. The recurring nuisance you barely register anymore. The tool that almost works. The paper cut you've been routing around for years. Those problems are where the good design work still is.
Most recent projects started as an annoyance I refused to keep tolerating: a hair color formula that would get lost between visits (STYLED); a calendar that thought in appointments when I was planning trips (SCHEDULED); an on-call handoff that lived in group chat (AVAILED).
The other half of what I do is build a house that runs itself. My second Mac in the closet is the always-on brain: it hosts a personal assistant over iMessage, a bridge for oddball smart-home devices, and a watchdog for the 3D printer. I like when the invisible infrastructure works so well you stop noticing it.
I use AI the same way I use a good jig in a wood shop: a tool that holds the wood steady while I do the interesting part. It doesn't do the design work. It removes the excuses for not building the thing.
If any of this resonates, or if you're wrestling with a small annoyance nobody has bothered to solve yet, say hello.