Articles

Local Model or Cloud Model? I Use Both, on Purpose.

The same three morning briefs, written one day by a cloud model and the next by a model running on a Mac Mini at home. What local AI is good for outside of code, and where the cloud still earns its bill.

Client-Ready Designs · Part 4

Designing a Chat Interface Nobody Notices

What broke while I let an agent draft deckhandAI's chat assistant, and what those failures taught me about designing conversational UI agentically.

Client-Ready Designs · Part 3

Skip the Blank Canvas. Let AI Generate the First Draft.

Four agentic design tools — Claude, Gemini, Figma Make, and Lovable — and where each one fits in a workflow for getting a credible first draft without starting from zero.

UX Research in the Agentic AI Era

How AI tools like Dovetail, Marvin, and Microsoft Copilot are compressing the research cycle — and why the human judgment calls matter more than ever.

Client-Ready Designs · Part 2

Skip Figma for Data Tables. Use AI to Build the Real Thing.

Skip Figma entirely for complex data tables and dashboards. A practical walkthrough of Claude, Cursor, and shadcn/ui for generating interactive, client-ready prototypes in code.

Client-Ready Designs · Part 1

How I Create Realistic Data in Figma Mockups

When designing for financial services or other regulated industries, placeholder text and fake numbers derail feedback sessions. Here's a repeatable two-tool process that keeps mockups credible.