Design Engineering

Twenty-five years of design, now pointed at building real software. These posts sit in the seam where the two meet: deciding how a tool talks to the person using it, what it assumes they know, and which of those calls are design problems wearing an engineering costume. The medium keeps changing; the craft mostly doesn't.

• Design Process, Meet Agent ProcessJuly, 2026

  Foundry is a plug-n-play agent process built by designers for designers. Enjoy plain-English definitions for agent vocabulary, mapped onto the design process.

• 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.