Design Sprint
Ship the product before the sprint ships you.
Articles
Long-form articles and shorter posts on designing security, identity, and access products, on the decisions behind the interface, and on the craft of product design.
Featured articles
Five practical strategies for turning intimidating enterprise authentication setup into a guided, trustworthy flow, from progressive disclosure and plain-language microcopy to designing for the IT admins who actually configure SSO.
How product designers can stop treating customer experience and business experience as a trade-off, with real Atlassian and freemium scenarios showing where the two goals actually meet.
Posts & essays
Why a product-first startup can be the best move for a mid-career designer: fewer layers, more ownership, and being part of the loop from day zero instead of just polishing pixels.
Why Atlassian renaming Jira “Projects” to “Spaces” is a UX decision, not just copy. When language matches how teams actually work, cognitive load drops and trust goes up.
Most breaches now start with a login, not a hack. How clear mental models, progressive disclosure, and lifecycle thinking make security something users follow instead of skip.
Unclear priorities, not workload, are what burn designers out. The simple three-bucket system I use to stay deliberate across reviews, dependencies, and long-term goals.
A balanced designer’s review of iOS 26 and Liquid Glass after running the beta from day one of WWDC25: striking visuals, real accessibility and contrast costs, and four fixes for Apple.
A monthly reflection on designing for trust in security products, and on growth that means going deeper into the work you already care about rather than chasing new titles.
Shipping a product built from the ground up taught me what “take ownership” really means: thinking ahead, owning outcomes, and staying rooted in why we are designing something at all.