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Six records on system boundaries, project truth, and the mechanics behind the work.

May 6, 2026

Designing Decision Boundaries for AI Agents: Clarence as an Agentic UX Case Study

How Clarence defines what an AI collaborator can decide, what it must verify, and where human judgment stays non-negotiable.

Agentic UXAI SystemsHuman-AI CollaborationVerification
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May 4, 2026

Working With Clarence

How I use Clarence for UX critique, creative prototyping, and system workflow without handing off judgment.

AI SystemsHuman-AI CollaborationUX CritiqueVerification
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April 26, 2026

Advocating for Accessibility Testing

A memo to a product team making the case for accessibility testing, with a WCAG 2.2 plan for its site and apps.

AccessibilityWCAGUniversal DesignStakeholder Communication
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April 11, 2026

Why Clarence Needed a System Wiki

Why important system knowledge could not stay trapped in chat logs, repo docs, and a vault that could point at the wrong place.

AI SystemsKnowledge ArchitectureMemoryHermes
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April 11, 2026

Why SensorSynthFM Needed a Wiki Before It Needed More Features

Why SensorSynthFM had a truth problem, not an idea problem, and how a project wiki keeps the thesis-demo work honest.

SensorSynthFMDocumentationCreative TechnologyResearch
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March 31, 2026

Implementing Pretext for Character-Level Text Layout

How I used Cheng Lou's new 15KB library to replace DOM-based text measurement with Canvas-powered character-level layout, and why it matters for interaction design.

PretextTypographyPerformanceReact
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May 2, 2025

Reflections on C&C Conference 2024, Ideas for C&C 2025

Notes from reading the 58 papers of ACM Creativity and Cognition 2024, and where my own work fits in that field.

ResearchHCICreativity SupportAI
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