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New May 19, 2026
Big AI & Design Systems Course updates!
Chapters 1 & 2 of our AI & Design Systems Course are live! 🎉 Our course now has over 16 hours of videos, which includes course lessons, community jam sessions, and other...
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New May 18, 2026
Grief in the AI Age
I want to talk about this moment in time, this AI era, through the lens of grief. Grief is a powerful response to loss. When we think about grief, we often think about death, but it’s taken me a...
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New May 12, 2026
The Boring Internet | Terry Godier
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. YESSSSSS. The Boring Internet by Terry...
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New May 8, 2026
Spicy Chicken w/ Brad Frost | Wireframe Live
I had a wonderful chat about design systems and AI with Donnie D’Amato on his wireframe show. We talked about all sorts of spicy topics, and I feel like this conversation captures a lot of where...
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New Apr 23, 2026
Building Healthy Community with Ben Callahan
On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I got to talk with my friend, fellow traveler, and recent collaborator, Ben Callahan. Ben and I met at BDConf many many moons ago, and since then we’ve...
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New Apr 20, 2026
Mouth Coding
Lately, I’ve been talking websites into existence. Not metaphorically, but actually sitting in important meetings with people — clients, collaborators, my wife, friends, neighbors — watching...
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New Apr 13, 2026
Adaptability, Curiosity, & Creative Breadth with Brendan Dawes
Brendan Dawes is a brilliant multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and technologist. Just one of his many many many creative projects is working on the incredible Eno documentary (directed by one of my...
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New Apr 8, 2026
An update on life and work
I’ve gone a lot of hard and scary experiences that’s made me deeply value stability. After enduring varied traumas, I really turned on the afterburners to make up for being ripped away...
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New Apr 6, 2026
Storybook MCP with Dominic Nguyen
Dominic Nguyen (Founder of Storybook and Chromatic) joins me to talk about Storybook MCP the long journey of design system quality. We get into what it actually feels like to be...
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New Mar 27, 2026
My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald
My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game called “Play With Michael McDonald”, and she wanted to present it. So here’s Ella! The origin story After playing some Mario Party minigames the...
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New Mar 26, 2026
Coding Club
Today I trekked to my daughter’s school (a long walk across the street!) to speak at her after-school coding club that’s been meeting weekly over the last month. It was really fun to see...
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New Mar 24, 2026
The Creative Infinite
I found myself using the phrase “the Creative Infinite” when I’m talking about AI as a design material. I keep coming back to it because I don’t think we’ve fully grasped...
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New Mar 18, 2026
I redesigned my website without touching my keyboard…all while painting a mural
On Friday night, I needed a break from screens, so decided to work on a bathroom mural that our family has been chipping away at for the last 4 years. But a lot was on my mind, so made the...
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New Mar 16, 2026
Fine Specimens by Elliot Jay Stocks
A curated collection of the best in contemporary type design Elliot is back with a new typography book! Elliot Jay...
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New Mar 9, 2026
A Designer’s Thoughts About This Moment in AI
I was walking my dog in the woods and decided to share my thoughts about the state of AI and the tension between the trajectory of AI companies and the designers/creators/makers of the world who are...
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New Mar 3, 2026
Old Music Friday
I love this so much. We take so much for granted, so I freaking love to be reminded of the time-traveling magic of recorded...
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New Mar 3, 2026
Real-Time UI
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype is worth a thousand meetings.”– Tom & David Kelley But what if the meeting is the prototype? That’s the spirit of an idea...
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New Feb 19, 2026
Ghostwriter by RJD2 Drum/Synth Cover
For months and months, I’ve been rebuilding our music studio. I’m AAAAALLLLMOST done with it, but it’s close enough to start sharing things. Here’s Melissa and I playing along...
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New Feb 17, 2026
Fostering Community
I shared this in our Slack this morning and wanted to share it here because this is the type of community we’re trying to foster. We want to For now, the ticket for joining our community is...
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New Feb 16, 2026
Announcing Live AI & Design Systems Jam Sessions!
Ian, TJ, and I are excited to announce live AI & Design Systems Jam Sessions with our AI & Design Systems course community! Our first jam session will be Thursday, February 26 at 10AM ET. In...
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New Feb 10, 2026
Angine de Poitrine – Mata Zyklek (Live on KEXP)
The fact that A BUNCH OF PEOPLE have sent this to me makes me feel like I’m doing life...