Shifting from inspectors to system stewards
AI can review, compare, and suggest. What it can't do is care about the outcome.
As tools automate comparison and regression, designers shift from inspectors to orchestrators: defining the baseline, setting the standards, interpreting nuance, balancing trade-offs, and protecting coherence across systems.
In a world where machines can generate interfaces, intention is what designers bring that the tools don't.
A project falling apart, fifty-odd UI defects and no source of truth, and what staying in it taught me: friction only sharpens you when there's something steady to work against.
The story of building Genie — from personal experiment to organizational platform — and what building it changed about how I work, what I'm capable of, and how others engage with me.
What designing for agentic systems actually looks like — mapping real workflows, defining agent behavior, setting guardrails — and why the skills designers already have are the ones that matter most.
I lead design work where systems, code, and AI meet—building the practices and platforms that let cross-functional teams deliver meaningful products efficiently and sustainably.