Why I keep a design journal
Every week I sit down and write about one project decision — right or wrong — in plain English. It's become the most useful habit I've developed.
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Personal essay
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Discovering what good design really means
Design has this strange quality — it's invisible when it works and painfully obvious when it doesn't. After a year of building things, I'm starting to understand why.
On learning to code as a designer
The first six months were humbling. Suddenly the things I'd been asking developers to do 'just because' had real cost. Here's what shifted for me.
Getting comfortable with negative space
There's a pressure to fill every pixel. It took me a while to trust the empty parts of a layout. This is what changed my eye.