AI LAB
Where I think out loud about AI.
Writing, experiments, and tools at the intersection of product design and artificial intelligence. Not theory, things I’ve actually built and questioned.
Writing & thinking
Beyond Vibe Coding: How to Build a Design System for the Agentic Age?
Tokens, naming conventions, and structure that AI agents can reason with consistently.
Relax, AI Won’t Replace Designers. It’ll Just Give Us More Work 😅
AI removed some boring tasks. Cute. Then it handed designers a new to-do list around trust, context, workflows, and decision-making.
I Started Building the Missing Layer in AI-Native Product Design
Reusable patterns for trust, hand-off, and correction in products where AI takes actions on behalf of users.
I Built a Tool to Fix the Most Embarrassing Moment in Design
How thinking through failure states before shipping changes what you hand off to engineering and what you learn about your own product.
I Built a Behavioral Design System to Stop Reinventing Human–AI Patterns
I created a living system for documenting, connecting, and evolving human–AI interaction patterns, so designers can reuse what works instead of starting from a blank page.
I Built an AI Harness to Turn Messy Product Meetings Into Traceable Decisions
I created DecisionTrace to extract decisions, catch conflicts and unresolved points, and turn messy product conversations into validated, traceable requirement updates.
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Design system · Markdown
Behavioral Design System Starter Kit
Reusable human–AI collaboration patterns to define before you design the interface. Think trust states, correction flows, and handoff moments.
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HTML · Vanilla JS
Edgely
A visual edge-case mapping tool — drag cards onto a likelihood × impact canvas, export a markdown handoff doc, and ship with fewer surprises.
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Calude/Cursor Markdown skill
Direction Alignment Skill
Turns one product problem into distinct solution directions and builds a stakeholder comparison page with explorable product-scene prototypes. Use when exploring product discovery, comparing UX directions, alignment workshops, feature strategy, trade-off reviews.
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Calude/Cursor Markdown skill
Feature Request Decoder Skill
A Cursor / Claude skill that takes vague feature requests and decodes them into clear, behavior-driven product briefs, less back-and-forth, faster alignment.
How I Build AI-Ready Design Systems For designers, developers, and AI Agents.
I explore how design systems can become shared context for teams and AI, connecting components, tokens, rules, and workflows so product teams can move faster without creating design debt.
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