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