EssayThe Agentic Commerce standoff (on Substack)
What the past can tell us about how this ends · Substack
Notebook
What I'm building, shipping and thinking about. Short entries link out to X or Substack. Longer ones live here.
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2026
EssayFrontiers & Foundations
Everyone is racing to the frontier right now and just a few talk about the floor they're standing on. · Case study
ThreadUIs aren't going away. They cycle.
Villa Savoye vs Saint-Pierre: agents are pushing interfaces into their efficient, legible phase, and that sets up the next wave of expression. · X
ThreadNative to start, multiplayer to last
Reading Nikita Bier and Josh Elman together: AI-native from the outset is real, but the old laws of network effects still apply. Why build a commenting feature when the comment can be the prompt? · X
ThreadThe whole ladder, one afternoon
IC, manager, director, executive used to take years each. Agentic operations compress the arc into one afternoon: set the vision, brief, delegate, review, fix. · X
EssayFleeting thoughts: Sep 9-16 (on Substack)
Steering is the new job, the machine that builds the product, and the unclenching. · Substack
ThreadThe machine that builds the product
We're not building the product anymore, we're building the machine that builds it: model, harness, context, tools, evals. Ours: ~60 min prompt to publish. · X · Case study
ShippedAI-native building tools at Microsoft AI
The Kit, the Studio, and Vibehub (14-post thread). · X · Case study
ShippedThe Microsoft Ads redesign launched
Closing in on a year at Microsoft AI: we launched the Microsoft Ads redesign, and advertisers are noticing the details the team sweated over. · X
ThreadNot roles, modalities
Riffing on Total Football: with AI-native building tools, PMs and designers pick their position based on where they are on the field. · X · Case study
2016
EssayFalling For The Wrong GUIPinned
Winners and losers in the conversational UI landscape (UX Collective). · Medium
2015
EssayUI / UX / Product / Interaction / Web / Digital / Visual / Full Stack — Designer
Contributing to the endless debate around the title and essence of being a digital product designer. · Medium
2014
EssayIndustrial designers — Fight!
Thoughts of an industrial designer gone digital: conflict as the mother of progress, from Ayn Rand to Gates vs. Jobs. · Medium
Planned
- Essay · Frontiers & Foundations: design systems as the base for AI products, the long version
- Case study · Leading Google Ads platform design
- Essay · Conversational UI, 2016 → 2026, a retrospective on the Medium piece
- Essay · Trust, permissions and transparency for AI agents
- Essay · Building and hiring a design team for AI
- Essay · Harness or model? Reconciling "LLM = generalist, Harness = specialist" (Jul 28) with "Stop caring so much about harnesses. Focus on training a model to your own needs" (Sep 23)
- Series · Fleeting thoughts, every two weeks on Substack, listed here automatically