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IdesignandbuildproductsattheintersectionofAIandpeople.

Where the ways tangle, I set the cornerstone.

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Designing with AI-enabled Patient Archetypes from Online Health Communities

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Designing with AI-enabled Patient Archetypes from Online Health Communities

Erasmus MC · 2025

Beyond the screen

Sometimes the work leaves the screen. These are a few of those times.

  • ASPIRE Forum event

    ASPIRE Forum · Hong Kong

    We designed AI glasses for people with dementia

    A few of us designed Memory—smart glasses that help people hold onto their most important moments when recall starts to slip. We took it to the ASPIRE Forum, pitched it, and came third. The competition was fun, but the best part was a clinician in the audience telling us she wished her patients had this right now.

    July 2025

  • Speculative AI Exhibition

    Speculative AI Exhibition · Turin

    An AI mirror that made people uncomfortable on purpose

    I built a smart mirror that watches you a little too closely—reads your face, infers things, and shows you what it thinks it sees. It was part of a speculative design show in Turin. People would stand in front of it, get uneasy, and then want to talk about it for twenty minutes. That was the whole point.

    Sept 2024

  • Stanford EXPE Exhibition

    Stanford EXPE · California

    Shape-changing car interiors with BMW R&D

    We worked with BMW on materials that physically change shape inside a car—surfaces that respond to you instead of just sitting there. At Stanford we showed it to a room of investors and engineers. The best reactions came from people who touched it and forgot they were at a demo.

    June 2024

Blog

Field Notes

4 articles
Mega-Prompt
WriterEditorComplianceBrand
Explore
Generate ideas
Evaluate
Judge quality
Enforce
Apply rules
Overload
Decay
Decompose

Part 1

The Polymath Fallacy

Why trying to build a digital twin of a human expert breaks AI systems.

March 2026 · 6 min read

High temperature — maximize variance
Straightforward
Safe & clear
Opinionated
Sharp & direct
Playful
Unexpected angle
Constraints applied — final output
Opinionated Draft
Format ✓Policy ✓Brand ✓
Variance preserved. Rules enforced last.
Generate
Select
Constrain

Part 2

Orchestrating the Creative Funnel

Solving the output problem by re-sequencing workflows.

March 2026 · 7 min read

Gold Standard
Extracting patterns...
Avg sentence12 words
Humoropenings only
Clichésconsistently avoided
Transitionsshort, direct
Analyze
Extract
Blueprint

Part 3

Reverse-Engineering the Vibe

Why a Golden Example is worth more than a thousand adjectives.

March 2026 · 7 min read

Chat 1
Use blue CTA...
Chat 2
Header 48px...
Chat 3
Match the tone...
Knowledge Bridge
Style signals
Structure map
Constraints
Coherent outputintent preserved
Isolation
Bridge
Flow

Part 4

Beyond the Chat

Building the Knowledge Bridge for production-grade agentic architecture.

March 2026 · 8 min read

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