a website is a careful room
i’m a designer and developer working on product, web, and the careful bits in between. lately i’m thinking about how tools can hold a lot of complexity without flattening any of it.
most of my work sits between design and engineering. i like the part where a rough idea becomes something you can click — and the part where you keep tightening it until it feels obvious.
i work slowly, toward an internet with room for interiority and for care. i want the things i build to feel like places, not products.
solidarity. building things that help people act together, and that hold onto the small parts of shared history the internet tends to lose.
care over efficiency. systems that make room for the people inside them, not just the tasks they’re moving through.
complex things, kept calm. products that hold a lot of detail without making the person using them feel small. i want a tool to take work off your hands, not pile more on.
are.na is full of connections between ideas, but they stay mostly invisible — you follow them one page at a time. kabo renders a channel as a 3d graph you can move through: blocks and channels floating in a dark field, linked by the relationships that already exist. each click grows the constellation instead of replacing it, so you build a sense of how things relate by wandering. less an analytics tool, more a way of seeing.
a mobile app that puts you in a group of four every monday. the matching pulls from your spotify, your interests, your age, your rhythm — enough signal to get past small talk fast. one week, then it resets.
a digital and physical scrapbook drawn from historical indigenous publications — decades of printed activism, gathered into something you can move through. meant to push against how flat and finished an archive usually feels.
a living archive of cross-community movements. i led the visual direction — how the site holds the history and the present-day work alongside each other.
an ambient interface for data — dense in what it does, quiet in how it looks and moves.
a ux audit of bunpo, a japanese-learning app i've used for years. three new features, read closely and redrawn.
i try to sit with a system before i propose anything for it. i’d rather understand it slowly than respond quickly — but once i’m in, the work moves.
i treat the people who already know the work as the primary material. mapping a system with the people inside it tends to make the eventual thing — the product, the tool, whatever it is — a lot closer to honest.
Midnight Rendevous
Casiopea
