Essays & Notes

15 November 2024

The Case for Slower Animations

We've collectively overcorrected. The web is twitchy, anxious, full of micro-interactions that fire before you've finished thinking. Here's why I've been slowing everything down.

3 September 2024

Design Tokens in Practice

A year of building a design token system taught me that the technical problems are the easy part. The organisational problems are where systems go to die.

20 June 2024

On Building in Public

I spent six months building in public and mostly hated it. Then something changed. A reflection on visibility, vulnerability, and why I'm doing it differently now.

8 February 2024

The Last 15 Percent

Every project has a last 15%. The part where it's mostly done but nothing is right. This is about that part — and why it's actually the most important.