Ideas & Experiments

A directory and map of freedivers — instructors, athletes, spearfishers, photographers, researchers, captains — and the schools they train at.

A Chrome extension that detects the page you're on and offers contextual download tools — Pinterest boards, Behance projects, and webfonts.

A generator for hexagonal icons built from a single tile shape — grow a small cluster of pieces in a wedge, stamp it around a centre with rotational symmetry, and get 50 unique marks per batch.

A drag-and-drop planner for the Vitsoe 606 shelving system — place e-tracks, snap in shelves, cabinets, and desks, see a running cost estimate, and export your design as PNG, SVG, or PDF.

A crossword generator that allows users to pick a few custom words and generates the rest of the puzzle including clues with the help of Gemini on the fly.

2025 was a year full of building from client work like Pittsburgh Airport's FIDS redesign to terraFlow's biotech platform to extracurricular projects that included teaching at SVA and building my a large number of apps using Claude Code and AI tools.

After leading the redesign of Pittsburgh Airport's Flight Information Display System, I used Claude Code to translate my Figma prototype into a live web application.

A tool that builds a Spotify playlist with today's episodes from your favourite daily podcasts, so your morning listen is queued before you get up.

An app for WhatsApp power users and community builders to manage, search, and analyze their message history. Watch a quick demo here.

Three macOS Automator workflows that add right-click context menu options in Finder for converting images to modern web formats.

A short story about mass, communication and the power of listening.

A conversation about complexity and our sensitivity for enough with Marcus Jenal and Nitzan Hermon.

Five classes on data, community, fiction, public space, and dissent — descriptions, curricula, and learning objectives from teaching at SVA.

A collection of manifestos that grew out of my curiosity about them and the people who wrote them.

AI technology is not leading us towards abundance—true abundance already exists around us. Realizing it requires abandoning zero-sum thinking and making conscious sacrifices for our collective benefit.

co.rise brought together design leaders in small, coached cohorts to tackle leadership challenges, share knowledge, and build trusted networks that made design leadership less isolating.

A short story and exploration of how autonomous vehicles reshape urban life, highlighting tensions between efficiency, human connection, and a clever yet controversial social solution devised to manage pedestrian jaywalking.

What if gentrification was measured and ensured integration more than exclusion?

An exploration into how community and society interact, what our challenges are and approaches to solve them.

An app idea to stop missed meetings by syncing your calendar with charming, can’t-ignore alarms.

We transformed vaults into NFTs, making them portable, transparent, and accessible across marketplaces, complete with an interactive visual display of their content and over-collateralization.

Resilience in a community is not simply about recovering from challenging situations but also about preventing them and creating paths for the community to evolve.

Blockchain technology is here to stay – I very much believe in the power and the possibilities it delivers but also that it will become necessary in the future to deal with our increasingly complex world. Let’s look at what trustless and permissionless really mean and how its shifting how we inter- and transact with each other.

Trust is built on the knowledge of our commonalities and shared experiences. Being curious and open to looking for what we share rather than what's different, trust can be a powerful catalyst for communication and collaboration – it can make things that seem impossible achievable. A look at the structures and conditions that enable it and how trust is built and sometimes broken.

Belonging is an essential part of our being. But what is it exactly and how is it created and experienced. A brief dive into how you can belong to a community, how it belongs to you and why we have a longing for it.

This is one of my favorite essays. A poetic and philosophical investigation into the meaning and origins of the word design that’s revealing and unexpected.