07 / Takes
RSSTakes.
Long-form notes on design, UX, product, and the working life of a practitioner.
Year / 2026
Year / 2025
2025
- Nov 11, 2025 Why Senior Product Designers Say No More Often product
The quiet discipline that separates seniority from output
- Jun 17, 2025 How AI Summaries Are Killing Visual Hierarchy craft
The composition that goes unread because the machine read first
- Feb 04, 2025 Which UI Patterns Will Not Survive Conversational AI design
The patterns that age out when the interface becomes dialogue
Year / 2024
2024
- Oct 22, 2024 How To Design Interfaces When AI Agents Are Users ux
The interface that answers itself, written for two audiences
- Jul 09, 2024 AI In The Product Design Loop, One Year In design
The model in the loop, and the loop that did the changing
- Mar 19, 2024 Why UX Maturity Stalls At Stakeholder Alignment product
The six stakeholders, and the two decisions that move the work
Year / 2023
2023
- Dec 12, 2023 Why UX Strategy Decks Fail Without A Field Map ux
The strategy nobody can execute because nobody walked the field
- Sep 05, 2023 The Modern Product Designer's Tool Stack, Reconsidered craft
The shrinking surface area between design and engineering
- May 23, 2023 Why Product Backlogs Turn Into Graveyards product
The backlog as memorial, the roadmap as wishful thinking
- Feb 14, 2023 Working With Founders Who Communicate In Screens startup
The founder who thinks in pixels, and the strategy underneath
Year / 2022
2022
- Oct 11, 2022 How To Run A Heuristic Evaluation Without Ceremony ux
The quiet test that ten engineers can run in an hour
- Jun 28, 2022 Why Wireframes Still Run Product Teams In 2022 craft
The wireframe that refuses to die, and what it signals
- Mar 22, 2022 When A Product Redesign Makes Things Worse design
The redesign nobody asked for, and what it cost
Year / 2021
2021
- Dec 07, 2021 Why User Onboarding Fails At The Last Mile ux
The flow that ends exactly where confusion begins
- Sep 14, 2021 Why Most Design Systems Fail As Deliverables design
The component library mistaken for a discipline
- May 18, 2021 How To Run Async Standups That Actually Work product
The standup that left the room and got quieter