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My sites looked clean. But they never felt alive until I added this.
This one layer makes your website look like it cost 5x more to build. I’ve built a lot of websites. For a long time, I thought looking clean was enough: good layout, solid typography, and colors that
What if personal AI was less iMessage and more Apple Notes?
Last week I gave a talk about some of the design ideas in Lightpage at a @resonantcompute event. Lightpage started with a simple question: what if our primary interface for personal AI was more like
How to use AI to generate (fantastic) slides:
It’s 2026, so you better not make your slides manually. AI does it for you. But how? I tested every method, and landed on 3 (the third one is my favorite). Save this guide and try all three methods
Simple Designer's Guide: Claude Code + Figma
For a long time, the design-to-code handoff only moved in one direction. You designed in Figma. A developer built it in code. You reviewed it, marked up changes, and repeated. The canvas and the
Against “Against Taste”
Taste did not suddenly arrive. Every few years the word comes back into fashion and starts carrying more weight than it should. But taste itself is simple. It is knowing what is good. That sounds
How to get your Framer template approved every time
Okay, finally a tweet about how to fix the biggest problem in this business. I don’t know how you ended up on this article of mine. Maybe someone who has the same problems shared it with you. Maybe
I Reviewed 200+ Indie Products and Found the Conversion Killers
Last weekend I went through over 200 landing pages from indie hackers and founders. Some were amazing. Most had the same fixable problems. I saw certain patterns over and over again. If you're
HTML tips you won’t see in most tutorials.
In this article, I will share with you some very useful HTML tips. Enjoy! I recently published a 50-page eBook with lots of HTML tips, examples, and illustrations. It’s available here: HTML eBook. But
From Nodes to Trajectories: How Meaning-First Design Unlocks AI's Quantum-Like Efficiency
We treated humans as stateless nodes and paid the price in wasted compute, brittle safety, and broken flow. Author’s Note As a parent, I’m also building an AI version of myself—something my children
How to reach $10,000/month as a Designer
At 14, I was selling Minecraft banners for $2.50 on Discord. $10,000/month in design felt reserved for an elite, something unattainable in this field. A few years and many mistakes later, I run a
The Complete Guide to Nano Banana Pro: 10 Tips for Professional Asset Production
Nano-Banana Pro is a significant leap forward from previous generation models, moving from "fun" image generation to "functional" professional asset production. It excels in text rendering, character
Onboarding Is A Lie
Why good products don't need onboarding tours at all. Users dismiss your multi-step tours after rage-clicking Next, and learn your product from YouTube videos instead of your carefully crafted flows.
Homogeneous by Design
We have unlimited design possibilities, infinite color palettes, and AI that can create anything. So why does every website look exactly the same? Welcome to the homogeneous web. Open five SaaS
The Last Mile
Crypto doesn’t have a speed problem. It has a belief problem. Everyone says they want faster infrastructure, but most no longer believe performance matters. DeFi hums along fine on Ethereum, Solana
The Convenience Trap
Every convenience we add creates a new dependency. Think about it. GPS means never learning the layout of your own city. Autocomplete means never learning to spell. Calculators mean never doing mental
The Interface Paradox: Why We Need Both Chat and Navigation
We’re building for two different brains. The tech world is splitting into camps. Chat interface evangelists on one side, traditional navigation defenders on the other. But we’re trying to serve two