Simon Corry

Science & Creativity

Product Designer
Front-End Developer
Team Leader

I'm Simon, a multi-award winning product designer based in New York. During my career I've had the privilege of creating experiences for clients including the New York Times and Google. I've also helped guide teams at Facebook and startups like Highfive and WeTransfer.

  • Visual Design
  • Design Systems
  • IA/UI/UX
  • Strategy
  • Prototyping
  • HTML/CSS

AI Agents

I build a solo MMORPG at nights and weekends, and most of it now happens alongside an AI coding agent. These are the posts where I work out how to make that partnership actually hold up: the memory, the guardrails, the review chains, and the small disciplines that keep a machine useful on a project meant to last years. Less hype, more what actually worked and what broke.

  • The Rule Nobody ReadJune, 2026

    I spent a year writing guides for my AI coding agent, then measured whether it reads them. The answer was low, and my first way of counting was wrong too.

  • The Stutter I Couldn't SeeJune, 2026

    An exacerbated designer's plain-English story of chasing frame stutters for months, and why the real fix was a workflow that measured evidence not vibes.

  • Agents and the English LanguageJune, 2026

    I taught my AI coding agent to write in plain English, not engineer-speak, so I can catch its mistakes. Here's the system that keeps it honest.

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