A fundamental part of your work as a designer is to present ideas as clearly as possible so others can provide informed and useful feedback. In order to communicate effectively, you need to consider how your ideas are received. …

Lately I’ve been fascinated with watching people stream on Twitch. I get to peek into their lives, watch them play games, make things and generally be awkward and bizarre. For whatever reason, I too have felt compelled to participate in this medium and I’ve spend the past few months learning…

Thoughts on how WhatsApp and Facebook design at scale I’ve been a product designer at Facebook close to four years. I’ve worked on a variety of teams such as Groups, Sharing, and Privacy. At this time last year, I got an exciting opportunity to begin work on WhatsApp. Going in…

The tradeoffs and benefits of pseudo-realistic menu design — Recently I’ve been playing Splatoon 2, which is a team-based third-person shooter available on the Nintendo Switch. To move between different styles of gameplay, the player must physically move their character in 3D space around a place called Inkopolis Square. …

I’ve been using the Switch for a few months and I can’t stop thinking about its user interface. Nintendo’s newest console is in the golden era of its UI. The base features you would expect out of a game system are covered, but cruft has not yet been added to…

As a long time fan of Zelda games, I was excited to dive into Breath of the Wild. It is both the largest game in the series as well as the one that most successfully provides a sense of adventure. …

I’ve been a huge Mass Effect fan since the original game. I’ve played through all of the games of the Shepard trilogy many times. Since I care so much about the series, I knew I would have high expectations for Andromeda. …

Video Tutorial — Earlier this year I released Framer Snippets Library. It’s a collection of snippets I’ve been building to help speed up my workflow in Framer. You can read more about the snippets here and download them here. I pushed some updates to the library this week and decided to make a little video showing how I use the snippets, since it’s not exactly how one might traditionally think about using snippets. Check it out:

I dream of the day where I design an interface using systematic logic and never again have to push individual objects around different sized artboards. The day I dream of gets nearer and 2016 was an incredible year for adaptive design. I thought I’d take some time to sample a…