Field Notes - Essays / 2025–26

Notes from the practice.

Long-form writing on systems thinking, AI-native design, enterprise UX, design architecture, and the workflows and governance that quietly decide how complex products behave.

Essay · 01 Part I of II 12 min

When AI becomes the end-user of a design system - Part I

Components were drawn for human eyes, hands, and mental models. When the consumer is a model, the rules quietly invert - and the design system stops being a UI library at all.

AI-native Design Systems Theory

When AI becomes the end-user of a design system - Part II

Governance · Semantics · Rendering logic

What governance, semantics, and rendering logic look like once systems are read more often than they are seen.

AI-native Governance

Should juniors be afraid of being replaced by AI?

Practice · Career · AI workflows

A more useful question - what does the entry-level designer's contribution become, when execution itself is no longer scarce?

Career AI-native

Why enterprise permission systems are actually identity architecture problems

Identity · Permissions · Enterprise UX

Permissions are the visible surface of a deeper layer - who the system thinks you are, in which context, doing what.

Identity Enterprise

Design systems beyond components - orchestration as a primitive

Design systems · Architecture

On treating workflows, governance, and behavior as first-class system primitives - not afterthoughts of a component library.

Reading complexity - three lenses for enterprise product orgs

Systems thinking · Enterprise UX

Three working lenses for diagnosing what's actually broken in a complex product org - beyond UI symptoms.

Systems Enterprise

Contextual rendering - why "the same screen" is rarely the same screen

Rendering logic · Enterprise UX

The same UI surface, given different context, is a different product. Designing for that - without forking everything.