The Lab.
Where the work that isn't a case study lives — writing on design systems, research, and applied AI; photography; and notes-in-progress. Less polished than the portfolio, more honest about the thinking.
Research that decides, not informs
Synthesis isn't the quote wall — it's the pattern that survives across enough cases to be worth designing for. On staging analysis by frequency and severity.
AI surfaces should produce decisions, not text
A chatbot that returns paragraphs is the lowest-value AI surface in an enterprise context. Designing for fact, inference, risk, action.
Products as metabolic pathways
A note on borrowing dependency graphs from biology — load-bearing nodes, propagation, and where one fix resolves three failures.
Systems before screens
The single biggest difference between senior and lead-level practice — and why a reusable component beats a beautiful one-off.
Editorial restraint is a competence signal
Most portfolios over-format. A short note on why less noise reads as more rigor.
Photographs from research trips and life off the screen. Drop images into images/lab/ to populate the grid.
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