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What I’ve Learned From Agentic Design

After 6 months of investing heavily into AI-driven design (e.g. Agentic Design), I thought this article would serve as a help for others and benchmark for myself for end of year reflection. What It Looks Like Right Now My previous workflow was coordinating with both Project Managers (PM), Stakeholders, Users, other Designers and Devs; taking [ ]

Red letter design

If you’ve ever come across a Bible, there’s a very good chance you’ve also seen a very common design pattern within it – the red letters of Jesus. And yes, it may surprise you that even our modern Bibles today rely on critical design systems such as: Localization (original languages were Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic), Punctuation, [ ]

Agent Skills – The Next Design System Tokens

If you ve paying any sort of attention to the AI ecosystem, you ve probably heard about MCPs a whole bunch (essentially AI s version of APIs). But more recently, there s also this new open standard by Anthropic around Agent Skills. I found this video very helpful as an explainer. As stated in the account on GitHub, it [ ]

A Directional Shift For the Site

Man, its been some time. Looking to start the blog up again this year, have a bunch of ideas articles in the queue for 2026. One thing I really want to begin emphasizing more is the relationship of design to spirituality, and by that I mean Christianity. As a deeply committed Christian, its a [ ]

If your blog even smells like you’re pushing AI slop – unsubscribed for sure.

If your blog even smells like you’re pushing AI slop unsubscribed for sure.

Did you know it’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities today? https://bit.ly/3KEWICH

Did you know it’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities today? https://bit.ly/3KEWICH

My favorite sort of UX discussion – major changes on the backend, no experience changes on front. #invisibleUX

My favorite sort of UX discussion major changes on the backend, no experience changes on front. #invisibleUX

“Breaking stuff and moving on quickly leaves us surrounded by carnage.” – Jonny Ive

“Breaking stuff and moving on quickly leaves us surrounded by carnage.” Jonny Ive

New Accessibility Podcast

If you didn’t know, I work over at Pega. Jill Power (Sr PM for Accessibility), Megha Patangi (Sr Accessibility Specialist, IAAP / Section 508 certified), and myself just kicked off a new podcast over on Spotify about accessibility and UX. There are already two episodes: one about the spirit and letter of WCAG and another [ ]

Simplify

Many words slow learning. Short, plain language. 8th grade reading level. Simplify. Simplify again.