Reading Babel by R. F. Kuang sparked an interest in etymology. That curiosity became Words Travel, an app that traces familiar words across an interactive globe. I share how I went from looking up word origins to designing and building the experience with Figma and Codex.

A team of faster designers can be a slower team. We spent the past year obsessed with getting individual designers faster with AI. Fair enough, most of us figured that out. But make seven designers faster and you don't get a faster team. You get seven private workflows, seven definitions of done, and a coordination problem nobody's talking about.

Exploring Storyroom, a social audiobook concept where listeners move through a book together, and how using AI as a thinking partner reshaped my design process, accelerated building, and changed how I approach product design today.