I've spent twenty-five years making things, and while the medium keeps changing: objects, then screens, then whole ways of working, what hasn't changed is my love of the moment before anyone knows what the right thing is, when a technology is real but its shape isn't. Most of my career has been some version of the same job...helping a team turn something ambiguous into a concrete form, whether that was a product headed for a shelf or an AI interaction that doesn't exist outside a prototype.

I think best with my hands. I trust a running thing over a description and a rough prototype over a deck, and I'd rather show a team a crude version of the future than talk them through it. That instinct came from industrial design and never left; these days it lives in Copilot, Codex, and Claude Code as often as in CAD or a sketchbook.

Outside of work, I'm usually behind a camera when the light does something worth chasing, or building something small with no business case attached. I live outside Seattle with my wife, also a designer, our kids, and a cat who likes to frequently interrupt Teams meetings.