Theme
Product, Prototype & Design
Tangible artifacts from concept through critique.
The work here is hands-on: a lunchbox redesigned around a specific user, an animated landing page, a community playbook written for people who would actually run the workshops, a prototype built to be critiqued.
Prototypes are the fastest way to find out whether a concept survives contact with a real user. The pieces in this theme reflect that — they’re finished enough to be judged, and rough enough to still be changed.
Essays
How the Apple Newton’s failure formed a foundation for the iPhone’s market success.
Jun 20, 2021
Reading the Apple Newton not as a failure but as the groundwork that made the iPhone commercially possible.
True creativity defies convention, requires courage and is always worth fighting for.
May 18, 2021
A short argument that genuine creativity requires defying convention — and why that matters for practice.