Writing

Thoughts on design, creativity, technology, teamwork, and productivity.

2026

  1. I Stopped Placing Words and Started Setting Type

    Twenty-five years of live music, on one wall. I'd tried this before with off-the-shelf word cloud libraries and it always looked like clip art. The fix wasn't more tweaking and tuning. It was rethinking how to place words.

2025

  1. What Owning the Roadmap Taught Me About Design

    For a few years I was the PM as well as the designer. Going back to design afterward, I wasn't the same designer.

  2. Describing User Experiences (UX)

    Exploring the different ways to describe a user experience

2024

  1. Shapeways Acquires 3D Model Platform Thangs

    After nearly two years designing Thangs at Physna, the platform has a new home at Shapeways.

2022

  1. Planning a Sabbatical

    Starting a sabbatical

2021

  1. Working in VR in 2021

    Working in VR in 2021 during the pandemic

  2. Microsoft Teams App Development Challenge 2021

    We entered Brightidea's new Teams integration in Microsoft's hackathon challenge. We didn't win, but the app got better for it.

2016

  1. Designing & Shaping a Surfboard

    Shaping a surfboard at Sunset Shapers in San Francisco.

  2. Autodesk Hackathon: 4D VR

    A non-technical hackathon team, a mock news segment, and a concept for adding time to VR.

  3. Volunteering with TechWomen 2016

    Teaching CAD to emerging women leaders as part of TechWomen 2016.

  4. Book Notes: The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero

    Notes on The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero

  5. Developing an Airfoil App for Fusion 360

    An app for Fusion 360 that creates airfoils from a NACA number.

2015

  1. A Year (or Several) of Bikes

    Last weekend I gave up my car and committed to a year of biking.