Sydney-based Senior Design Engineer at Envato and Cursor's Regional Leader for Australia and New Zealand. A decade of UX and web behind me, now building and teaching at the intersection of design and AI — through Jagged Peaks Club and the Curious Kitchen workshops.
Layers splits a generated image into separate layers you can move, reorder and edit with AI. As the design engineer, I built HTML prototypes to dial in the interaction details, then handed the settings to Cursor Cloud Agents to implement.
As the interaction designer, I helped consolidate five separate workflows into a single, extendable system for tracking quota balances and issuing certificates for Australian exports. Our work won a Good Design award and has become foundational for managing Australia's export quotas.
Tiny Talking Todos (Talkies) is a voice-enabled task management app to help families manage the "mental load" of household responsibilities. What makes this project unique is its "malleable software" approach - which allows users to personalize and create custom list types using AI.
The written version of my Design Outlook 26 talk. Three habits have followed me from print design through UX and into design engineering—Collect, Combine, Collaborate—held together by one keystone technique: capturing ideas as small, single-file HTML prototypes. The full deck, slide by slide, with the transcript alongside.
The keystone habit from my Design Outlook 26 talk. How I capture ideas as small, single-file HTML prototypes — one file you can play with, reason about, share, and iterate. The why, the process, and the tips and tricks that make it stick.
You can capture all the important qualities of AI as a mountainous landscape. Wild and abundant, complex beyond comprehension, the terrain can look terrific or terrifying depending on where you stand. The peaks represent breakthroughs, the valleys signify limitations, and the unexplored paths hint at future possibilities.
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