Design was never just a career to me — it's closer to how I live, a pull I can't switch off. An obsession, honestly; I can't help it. My report card knew before I did.

I loved geometry and biology and hated the formulas, and the exceptions told the truth: it was never humanities versus sciences, it was visible versus invisible. My mind runs on meaning, and meaning only ever reaches me through form — and I was stubborn enough to stay when the pen tool humiliated everyone else.

I make complex technical systems obvious — as obvious as knowing to sit in a chair — without dumbing them down.

When you look at a chair, the only thing that comes to mind is to sit on it: the design is so good you don't think about the design, you just do the thing. I judge a door handle, a water bottle, an enterprise tool the same way.

Everything I build is the same kind of thing — adaptive systems that learn the user and help them decide or improve. Software should learn you and extend your thinking.

I can't build the boring version of anything; the moment I touch a problem I'm asking how it could learn, how it could make the person better at the thing.

Complexity isn't the enemy — illegible complexity is; the job is clarity, not removal.

Don't build what already exists; build what's missing.

And never a loose end — every path resolves into a conclusive, satisfying next step.