As a writer

This page is a collection of articles I’ve written in recent years as a way to share my ongoing thoughts about the work I’m involved with, my reactions to technology, and the some of the challenges and opportunities I see in the design community. They are a reflection of my own opinions and not intended as the views of the companies I have been associated with.

Writing doesn’t come naturally to me, but I like to think that some of these ideas have a better chance of coming to life when they are shared and perhaps discussed. You never know when they might link up with other’s ideas out there, maybe even sparking new innovation, or simply helping connect like-minded people with one another. I hope they inspires you to share your own.

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  • Monochrome Vision

    The Quiet Honesty of Black & White

  • Unwinding Systems

    Breaking the grid

  • In Color We Trust

    The role of color in brand and increasingly more personalized interfaces

  • The Conversational Canvas

    Speaking ideas into existence

  • Prompt Crafting

    My imperfect approach after 20,000 images

  • The Alchemy of Brand Love

    Fusing Aesthetics & Brand Strategy to Build a Beloved Brand

  • The Artful Edge

    Navigating the Role of Arts and Aesthetics in User Experiences

  • Beyond The Bubble

    Evolving Our Conversations

  • Beyond Static

    Tracing the Evolution of Motion Graphics

  • Leading as an IC

    Five habits of a successful individual contributor

  • Harmony in Automation & Creativity

    The Incoming AI-Driven Evolution of Design Systems

  • Designing for the intelligence age

    Considering the Possibilities of Human-Computer Generative Interaction in Daily Life

  • Digital Me

    The ever-expanding spectrum of our computerized identities

  • Branding in the age of automation

    When customers and AI take control

  • Slowing down with photography

    My feelings about capturing, sharing and consuming photographic memories

  • The age of co-creation with AI has begun

    The inevitable reshaping of art and design by artificial intelligence

  • The future of UX is multisensory

    The need for more beauty and physical connectedness in our digital lives

  • Everyday shapes that guide and emote

    When subjective forms collide with objective iconography

  • Fantasizing about Web 3.0

    Lucid dreams about a reimagined internet that can more seamlessly fuse our physical and digital lives

  • The making of Fluent emoji

    A year-long effort to design a more expressive emoji system for Microsoft

  • Materializing the Intangible

    How user experience stories can help paint the picture of a product's soul

  • Expressive spaces for remote togetherness

    Crafting otherworldly environments to bring us closer to one another

  • Fusing Art & Design in UX Storytelling

    How product storytelling can solve problems and kickstart healthy debates

  • The Rebirth of Office

    Evolving the Office brand for a new world of collaboration