Week One
There are weeks where you do good work and weeks where the way you do work changes permanently. We just had the second kind.
Software Engineering
How systems get built, specified, and shipped without theater.
Motion Without Theater.
Motion is a contract about causality. When it’s unprincipled, it reads as insecurity: the interface jingling keys.
Information Architecture Before Interface.
Bad IA makes users feel stupid. Prompting is most useful before pixels: naming, grouping, pruning, and stress-testing meaning.
The Spec Is the Artifact
Most design deliverables are screenshots. The real artifact is the specification: the rules, the edge cases, the failure modes. Pixels lie; specs commit.