Notes
Reflections on design systems, working with AI agents, personal projects, and the ups and downs.
2026
5 notes- How this site is built: Astro, one tokens file and an agent that follows a brief
- 7 places I use AI agents in design work, and where I stop
- A settings panel that sells: ~20% more self-serve upgrades from locked states
- 21 days to 14: how a solo designer won resources for a design system
- I skipped design tokens in 2020. The migration took 6 months in 2023
October 19, 2026 · Building, AI and agents · 9 min read
How this site is built: Astro, one tokens file and an agent that follows a brief
A static Astro site with native CSS, a three.js sphere and a cursor field. What is in the stack, how I worked with Claude Code, and how I got the LCP from 2.6 to 1.66 seconds.
October 18, 2026 · AI and agents · 6 min read
7 places I use AI agents in design work, and where I stop
Ticket clustering, design systems in Figma, plugins and web tools, a full-stack app, native apps, a hackathon game with 3D assets and this site. What I hand to AI agents, what I keep, and how I check the result.
October 16, 2026 · Design systems · 4 min read
A settings panel that sells: ~20% more self-serve upgrades from locked states
Instead of hiding advanced privacy settings from cheaper plans, I showed them locked. How a tooltip and an Upgrade button turned a utility menu into a growth channel.
October 14, 2026 · Design systems · 5 min read
21 days to 14: how a solo designer won resources for a design system
I had no team and no budget for a design system. I had one task measured twice, a pitch to the CEO and CTO, and 6 hours a week as the result.
October 12, 2026 · Design systems · 5 min read
I skipped design tokens in 2020. The migration took 6 months in 2023
I started a design system with hardcoded values to ship faster. Three years later the move to semantic tokens took more than six months. What I would do on day one.
