Ideas / Notes / Observations

THINKING
IN PUBLIC.

Essays about learning, technology, creativity, and the complicated human parts that connect them.

01Learning + Design

What Eleven Years of Teaching Taught Me About UX

The classroom is one of the most demanding user-experience labs there is.

Essay forthcoming
02Technology + People

AI Won't Fix Bad Instructional Design

New tools amplify the thinking underneath them—for better and for worse.

Essay forthcoming
03Creative Practice

The Best Technology Disappears

When a tool is truly useful, attention returns to the work itself.

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04Learning + Design

What Musicians Understand About Creative Constraints

Limitations can create the conditions for a more original idea.

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05Technology + People

Vibe Coding Changed Who Gets to Build Software

The distance between imagining and making is suddenly much smaller.

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06Creative Practice

Teachers Are Already Product Designers

Teachers prototype, observe, adapt, facilitate, and design every day.

Essay forthcoming