monospace.studio

Ideas · Thoughts

Thoughts that carry the point of view.

A selected set of articles and longer arguments, with Medium-era writing carrying most of the archive and a few native summaries where the piece needs portfolio context.

Editor's pick · Builder tools · 2026

Bloom: The Meta-System for Compounding Product Development

How I stopped accumulating accidental scaffolding across projects and built a meta-system that makes every product inherit the best decisions from every product before it.

UX leadership · 2024

My UX Maturity Framework

A systems-thinking framework for evaluating and upgrading UX maturity across large organisations.

Design systems · 2025

Super-primitives in design systems

A practical design-system argument: get the primitive layer right and the rest of the library becomes easier to govern.

AI adoption · 2023

AI maturity model

A systems-thinking proposal for measuring AI adoption across both organisational coverage and maturity.

Research ops · 2021

Kicking off Research Ops in a large organisation

How I turned fragmented research practice into process, documentation, tooling, taxonomy, and executive buy-in.

Product design · 2023

State of (Digital) Product Design 2023

A short argument that AI does not remove the need for product design judgment; it raises the stakes for it.

Content design · 2016

Content Design

An older but still useful argument for treating content as a core part of product experience rather than surface copy.

Archive selection

2026

Self-hosted AI infra

Building HomeCloud

Read

2022

Workshops

Content Workshops

Read

2020

Studio

Launch day

Read

2019

Prototyping

Prototyping native apps with Sketch, Marvel, React Native and Expo

Read

2016

AI history

Text Bots are about to disrupt web design

Read

2016

UX psychology

Psychology in Experience Design

Read

2016

Design and code

Why I learned to Code

Read

2015

UX writing

Plain text for better UX

Read