Case study 01 · Concept · Systems design · Color science · AI direction
High tension, low noise: the line carries the music and nothing else gets through.
Insulator is an offline music player with two interfaces, split by form factor rather than taste. The classic Winamp form is a fixed 275×116 framebuffer, so it belongs where windows dock. A phone has none — so it gets ARC, where you pick a photograph and it becomes the ground the interface sits on.
Case study 02 · Concept · Product design · AI direction
Never write after a failed read.
MoneyLedger is a private, encrypted, offline personal-finance ledger that lives in one HTML file — open it in a browser and it runs. Bad state triggers snapshot recovery, or the app refuses all writes to preserve the corrupt record rather than overwrite it. In daily use on my real finances — 1,595 transactions.
Case study 03 · Concept · Design language · Domain UX
One product, two design languages.
Homestead is a browser suite for designing and running a home renovation, tying design to cost to permits in one place. The expensive mistakes happen in the gaps between tools — you design something you can't afford or can't permit, and find out later. The tool is dark chrome around a light drawing surface; the deliverable is a separate render pass, never a screenshot of the tool.
Case study 04 · Concept · Feasibility · Acoustics · Product scope
The appealing part was the part that doesn’t work.
ST-01 is a design habit at product scale: spec it, measure it, then decide what to build. A five-section feasibility sheet for a shot timer that listens through a phone microphone — the job a competition Range Officer does with a dedicated device — and the obvious feature is the one the physics refuses.
Case study 05 · Concept · Systems design · Initiative
Five tools nobody asked for.
Built inside Intel's validation labs — on the clock, for people still using them, and none of them assigned. The drive cleaner finds what it found, shows you, and asks before it wipes. The bringup script asks separately about kernels, because a test system pinned to a build is destroyed by the update any sane default would run. The 2021 parts database is still what the lab uses.