Plain answers to hard questions about design, access, and trust.
I write about accessibility, trust and safety, and AI-native product research and design. Every article opens plainly for the leaders who make the call and then goes deep for the people who do the work.
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- Accessibility and inclusive design
- Trust and safety
- AI-native product research and design
- Digital life management
- History of design, science, and technology
- Accessibility and inclusive design
- Trust and safety
- AI-native product research and design
- Digital life management
- History of design, science, and technology
The articles I would hand you first.
- Trust and safetyWhen a design tricks people out of their money or their data, you can report it.Submitting Dark Patterns to the Federal Trade CommissionRead the article
- AI-native product research and design · Skillshare classClaude stays on brand when your brief says what to write, with a reason, and not only what to avoid.How to make Claude stay on brandRead the article
- Accessibility and inclusive designAccessibility is where good design starts, not a box to tick the week before launch.Why accessibility comes firstRead the article
Everything I write serves one goal: products people can trust.
Build it so everyone can use it.
Audits, testing, and design that work for disabled people, written for the leaders who fund the work and the teams who do it.
Keep people safe and help them recover.
Fraud, scams, and the recovery paths that fail people, plus how to organize, protect, and prepare your own digital life.
Design with AI and keep your standards.
How I research, design, and prototype with AI, and the rules that keep the work honest and on brand.
Organize, protect, and prepare your digital life.
Plain steps for your accounts, passwords, photos, and records, so the people you love can find what they need.
Learn from the people who built it first.
Stories from the history of design, science, and technology, and what they teach the teams who build products today.
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