Ideas

Ten ways to animate a scroll arrow, from a small hop to a 300px loop-the-loop, numbered for reference.

The homepage, before and after: one paragraph became one scroll.

Six ways to animate the MOMBARTZ logo, from the red dots alone to shuffling every letter, numbered for reference.

A short class for smart generalists with an idea: 45 minutes on the tools and how they fit together, then an hour of office hours to build it and put it on a URL.

Ways to show more of an image without leaving the page.

I’m starting a leadership and professional coaching practice!

A Chrome extension that bedazzles Google Calendar — stickers, doodles and scribbled notes placed anywhere on the grid, like the tactile layer of a paper planner.

A generator that tiles a canvas with polyominoes — grow random clusters of cells across a jittered grid until the whole surface is claimed, then draw them as outlines or as flat colour fields, and export the result as SVG.

Job hunting is boring, so I built a job tracker — add listings, move them Kanban style, and let a Claude skill draft the cover letter into my own PDF template.

A one-page dashboard for local dev projects that grew into a workspace — every project in a sidebar, with terminals, Claude Code sessions, logs, files and docs as tabs in the same window.

A contact manager for address books that got out of hand — import from everywhere, find the duplicates, clean up twenty years of mess, and keep it all in a database you own.

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.

The collection of quotes that rotates at the bottom of every page on this site — gathered here in one place.

A sewn harness that turns a Rimowa cabin case into a backpack for stairs, cobblestones and gravel. All buckles and sliders, so it adjusts to different sized luggage and comes off without leaving a mark.

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.

A small 3D-printed bridge that joins two strap ends terminating in the same half of a buckle — enough to build a back strap from hardware the backpack already had, and lash the pack onto a rolling suitcase.

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.

A weekly discussion series for Curious, my NYC community: one theme a month – trust, play, reinvention, possibility – explored over four Thursday mornings through open and provocative prompts.

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.

Tote bags are often used to communicate inspirational and brand slogans. Fake Change does exactly that but twists the critical message and warning from Anand Giridharadas' book Winner Takes All into a bold statement of confidence.

Mass Transit is a set of 5 signs that mimic New York's Mass Transit Authority subway signage. The pieces live in apartment and shop windows, and face outwards to create a large distributed way finding system with the help of the cities citizen. It transforms the street into a platform and viewers into travelers, alerting them to scrutinize their paths and destinations.

An open framework for building and running communities, organized around Identity, Experience and Structure, and used by more than 300,000 community builders.

A 3D-printed clip that turns a tube of toothpaste into a toothbrush stand — it wedges onto the crimped seam at the top of the tube and holds the brush upright with the head clear of everything.

Fund Trust is a participatory art piece. It consists of 12 translucent stamps and one ink pad each measuring 1.5 x 1.5 inches. Each stamp features a different word: Each Other, Women, The System, Money, Color, Moral, Others, Guns, You, ♥, Work, The 1%. The instructions for piece are as follows: Decide who or what you trust most from the selection of stamps. Take a dollar bill of any denomination and place it White House facing you on any surface. Ink the stamp gently and replace the word God "In God We Trust" with your word.

Eyes on money looks at our relationship with the all white and male assembly of founding fathers and prominent Americans on the US paper currency. Looking them eye to eye one can start wondering what they are thinking about, if their dreams and intentions for this country have taken shape.

As temporary installation at Williamsburg Bridge in New York City, It's all downhill from here engaged cyclist through an official looking MTA inspired sign at the exact middle and pinnacle of the bridge. On one hand lighthearted message and signal of relief to have reached the top – on the other hand an ominous sign and thought provoking banner that stayed with each cyclist as they continued onwards and downward, following the endless seeming path to the other side of the east river.

The feeling of finding something, the excitement of finding an unusual object, in an unexpected place makes it beautiful, the potential makes it practical, the elimination of wastefulness makes it a reinvention. Capturing the past and mystery of an unknown thing, revealing a glimpse into its story. One that is hard to decipher, but assembled creates a story of its own. All Furniture Found pieces were built from discarded objects that were found in New York City between December 2011 and February 2012.

More than meets the eye explores the relationship between perception and reality through visual illusions and optical effects.

Black, large garbage bags are omnipresent. Anything discarded disappears. But does it?

9 short films shot on super 8 and digitally edited. Exploring the relationship of we have with time, its intersection with space or how emotions change. Experimental.

A Google Docs add-on that aggregates hashtagged words out of a document — an easy way to keep track of links or content snippets, or assign them to a concept or a person, without ever leaving the natural content stream of the doc.

Urtak was a collaborative polling widget: readers answered a stream of yes/no questions on a publisher's page and could add their own. With a working rebuild of the 2012 widget.