Selected Works & Writings
This section is dedicated to scrappy little exploratory AI things, fun side projects, and mostly-working, kind of ugly prototypes.
In ideation, Large language models can provide an artificial, observational perspective that can uncover insights both obvious and unexpected. Originally built for the UXSTRAT conference, this is a small collection of sticky note generators, intended to help workshoppers explore and reflect on topics.
When we think about designing with AI, we're often limited to single prompt inputs. What if, instead of trusting the AI to fully interpret our intentions within such a limited scope, a chatbot could design it's own interface through a conversation you can express your creative direction?
Hep! is a GPT that asks questions and facilitates ideation to help you think more deeply about whatever is is you want to make or do, offering insights and producing visual or written content to stimulate your process if you need it.
Pulpo is another GPT that started out as a version of Hep! but ended up distinguishing itself a bit. Pulpo writes notes about whatever idea or project you're working through conversationally, and pushes you to explore different paths, tracking your thoughts and providing structure. It extends ideas in different directions, like tentacles!
Sometimes, when we have a vision for how we want to use technology to solve a problem, we dive deep. We prototype, talk to our users, and we think we've got it, but there's still something missing.
Something is getting in the way of your teams success.
You've tried everything. You're tracking your metrics, you've beat your discovery and user flows and information architecture and interaction design to death, and you know there's still something your team just isn't seeing.
Sometimes, you just need someone to see, and I mean really see what's actually happening. You need someone who will say the obvious when no one else will, make what's important known to be important, and design the damn thing right. The way everyone wants to.
That's where I can help. Through years of leading teams to design solutions that tackle the complex relationship between humans and the technology we use, I help people who build things understand the connections between the dots. By ensuring we understand the true value of ideas, act on them in a way that benefits everyone, and employ human beauty to complement our technological ingenuity, I enable teams to design solutions that deeply help the people we build for.