Writing

Things I'm working through: design systems, what adoption actually looks like in practice, and what it's like to redesign a product while the company is mid-acquisition.

What Nobody Tells You About Design Systems After an Acquisition

The technical challenge of merging three component libraries was real. The organizational challenge, getting people who didn't choose to work together to actually build something together, was the actual job.

Systems Thinking Changed How I Design Products

Early in my career, I measured my output in screens. Then I designed a beautiful solution that assumed a data model that didn't exist. That failure changed everything.