From “Tapa Tapa” to a new Hobby
A brief story about how I started to break the silence and how I forced my best friend to join me.
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Design thinking, experiments, visual studies, and personal practices that shape how I see products.
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Designing for Care Teams Under Time Pressure
What changes when your user has 90 seconds between rooms and one hand on a tablet — and why "minimal" stops being a style choice.
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Guitar Journal: Learning Through Repetition
A practice log from six months of returning to the same eight bars every morning, and what it taught me about iteration.
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What AI Changes in Early Product Exploration
Generative tools have not replaced the discovery phase. They have collapsed the cost of being wrong, which changes how much you should explore.
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A Guitar Website Built in Figma
A weekend experiment: a small site about my favourite acoustic guitars, designed and prototyped entirely inside Figma Make.
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Interface Study: Operational Dashboards
Six operational dashboards from logistics, fintech, and clinical ops, broken down by what they choose to make the user count, scan, or ignore.
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Calligraphy Studies: Letter Spacing by Hand
Two weeks of writing the same sentence over and over to feel — not measure — what good spacing actually looks like.
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Branding Observations: When Identity Becomes Product Behaviour
Logos rarely matter inside the product. What matters is whether the brand has decided how the product behaves when something goes wrong.
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Haiku Diary: Small Observations
A short collection from a month of writing one haiku a day on the U-Bahn. Compression is a design skill.
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Design System Decisions That Survive Shipping
A list of small system decisions that looked over-engineered in week one and saved months by quarter four.
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Plant Notes: Systems That Grow Slowly
Two years of looking after a slow Monstera taught me more about long-running systems than most blog posts on the same.
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UX Research Notes: The Five-Minute Interview
Most of what I learn from users in 60 minutes shows up in the first five. A short note on why and what to do about it.
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Reading Notes: What I Keep Returning To
A short list of the books I have re-read at least three times, and the one sentence I underline in each.
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Case Study Fragment: The Onboarding That Failed Twice
A note from a recent project where the second redesign performed worse than the first — and what that taught me about measuring the right thing.
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Painting & Drawing: Form Before Polish
Three quick gouache studies that taught me why I keep over-polishing first drafts in product work.
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Tools & Workflow: My Current Stack
The tools I actually open every day, why each earns its keyboard shortcut, and the ones I quietly stopped using.
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Travel Observations: Public Signage as Everyday UX
Photos and notes from train stations across Europe — what works, what fails, and what every product team could steal.
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