How thehonestape.com is built
A walkthrough of the stack behind thehonestape.com: Astro 5 with MDX, Payload CMS v3 for visitor messages, Cloudflare Pages and D1 for runtime, an on-page Llama 3.3 70B agent over the Hugging Face Rou…
Sacred Grove
An immersive reading app for scripture and wisdom literature, designed by conversation first and built on a public-domain corpus. A planting note before the full case study.
The Open Local Stack
Working with ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion WebUI, DiffusionBee, and Hugging Face as a designer's daily generative toolkit.
Vibe Coding is Design
Development is Design/Design is Development - exploring the changing relationship between design and development
Artificial Intelligence, Automatons, and Brazen Heads
Brazen Head by Abraham Garcia, Self-portrait. Imagine standing in a medieval laboratory, face-to-face, with a gleaming brass head. Its eyes flicker with otherworldly intelligence as it speaks, reveali…
My First Experiment with Stable Diffusion
Changing the ethnicity of a stock photo's subject using text prompts - tinkering as research in 2022
Four Books that Inspired Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis'
David Graeber and Herman Hesse influenced the director's new film - exploring civilization, patriarchy, and egalitarian societies
Meaning Layer: Design intelligence and insights—designed, and delivered directly to your inbox.
Introducing, Meaning Layer-Design Intelligence for Experts and Leaders As a fellow design, business, or technology leader, you and I share a common quest for fresh ideas and diverse perspectives. Perh…
Branding and the Truth
Examining how brands can embody truth and authenticity in their design and messaging.
The Future is Now
Thoughts on technology, capitalism, and design as the world transforms during the 2020 pandemic.
Working Remotely
Tools and systems for successful remote design collaboration, written during the 2020 pandemic shift. Covers Slack, Zoom, Krisp.ai, Dropbox, Paper, and Figma workflows.
State Your Purpose!
Reflections on graduate school application statements and sharing growth as designers. A collection of MICA GDMFA alumni statements.
