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Writing & Thinking
The Journal
- JNL-00114 Nov 2024Essay
On the Persistence of Brutalism in the Digital Age
Why the most durable design movements are those built on refusal rather than invention.
- JNL-00202 Sep 2024Manifesto
Against Personality: Why Your Brand Should Say Less
The brands that attempt to be everything — warm, innovative, bold, authentic — end up being nothing at all.
- JNL-00318 Jul 2024Process
The Invisible Gesture: Micro-interaction as Craft
A careful analysis of why the smallest interactions carry disproportionate weight in how a product feels.
- JNL-00422 May 2024Essay
The Vernacular of Visual Systems
How visual languages form their own dialects, and why consistency is a conversation, not a constraint.
- JNL-00510 Mar 2024Process
Prototyping in the Age of AI
The tools have changed. The questions have not. Why prototyping still demands human judgment.
- JNL-00615 Dec 2023Manifesto
On Restraint and Negative Space
The discipline of leaving things out, and the courage it takes to let silence do the work.
