How teams and models can plan together without talking past each other.
Presented at
- Frontend Forward, Seattle, September 2026
Evergreens are ideas I've invested significant time into. They are refined, edited, and won't significantly change – aside from the occasional trimming.
Planning With Agents: Shared Artefacts and Thicker Interfaces
How teams and models can plan together without talking past each other
8 Backlinks
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On notification fatigue, ambient signals, and the case for tools that respect your attentionThe Blank Page Problem in AI Tools
Chat boxes make everything possible and nothing obviousAmbient Presence
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space on the webMeetings Are Interfaces Too
Applying interaction design principles to the most expensive software your company runs: people talkingThe Last User Interface
If language models can drive any screen, what is left for a designer to design?Shared Cursors
Showing where collaborators are looking and working in real timeMentions around the web
9 Likes and Reposts
A careful piece on shared context. The section on reversible actions is the part I keep sending to people on my team.
Really enjoyed this one. The framing of interfaces as social spaces is going straight into my notes.
The layout of this site is a pleasure to read on a phone. Also, strong agree on the argument.
Adding this to the list of pieces that convinced me to stop posting to timelines first.