I design and build useful things.

For forty-plus years I’ve been turning complicated software, rough ideas and awkward interfaces into things people can understand, trust and enjoy using.

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40+years designing interfaces and software

SIMCITYexperience on the original development team

4platforms: web, desktop, Android + iOS

01 / SELECTED WORK

Things I actually ship and use.

Email, developer tools, publishing and mobile. Built, broken, fixed and lived in every day.

01TideMailEmail · Product UX · GoBUILDING↗ 02Tide ecosystemDeveloper tools · Shared UXBUILDING↗ 03TheBeautyAnswerPublishing · Problem-first UXLIVE↗ 04CookingFixPublishing · Rescue-first UXLIVE↗

TideMail desktop interface showing the keyboard-first email workflow

TideMail Android beta inbox in dark mode

TideMail Android beta dashboard in light mode

TideMail · desktop + Android betaAndroid beta open · iOS coming soon →

02 / WHAT I DO

From messy idea to polished product.

UX / UI design

Structure, flows, interactions and visual design for products with a lot going on.

Product design

Figuring out what to build, why it matters and how it should behave, before building the wrong thing gets expensive.

Web

Responsive sites and apps that feel made for your business, not pulled from a template.

Android + iOS

Mobile design and development that respects how each platform works and how thumbs actually move.

Desktop + tools

Desktop apps, terminal apps and developer tools, where speed, density and workflow really matter.

Product rescue

Dated, confusing or inconsistent? I can work out what’s wrong and reshape the experience.

LAB NOTES

Currently in the lab.

Experiments while they’re still half-built, including the ones that don’t make it.

Oct 17, 2026

Why My Terminal Apps Are Becoming a Shared Platform

How the Tide apps are sharing interface components and connecting through TideDeck while remaining useful on their own.

In progress↗ Oct 12, 2026

Giving my coding agents some context

Why I keep my coding agent skills in one repo, and what goes into them.

Shipped↗ Oct 10, 2026

Starting the lab notebook

A place to show experiments while they're still half-built, including the ones that don't make it.

Shipped↗

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03 / THE LONG VIEW

I was designing interfaces before we called it UX.

I’ve spent more than four decades where people meet software. That’s early applications and the original SimCity development team, then the web, mobile, desktop, and now AI-assisted workflows.

The tools changed.
People didn’t.

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04 / CURRENTLY IN THE LAB

One language. A real family of tools.

Tide isn’t one app wearing different skins. It’s a set of interaction ideas shared by four terminal apps for feeds, mail, files and containers, and TideMail is in beta on Android too.

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TIDE / SHARED PRODUCT LANGUAGE