I’m a product designer living on the road.I design v0 at Vercel, and make tools, experiments, and the occasional pixel portrait.
- Vercel’25 – nowStaff product designer
- Basedash’20 – ’25Founding designer
- Asurion’17 – ’20Principal product designer
- Intradiem’14 – ’17UX design manager
- Tomjohn Design’12 – nowOwner
Projects
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PilgrimageA medieval city building game
What the Port?See the active dev servers on your Mac
shadercamUse shaders as your webcam
MacindashA custom hardware dashboard
DitherfacePixel faces of pixel people
Talks
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v0 Design Systems 2.02026I announced Design Systems 2.0 for v0, which lets v0 build with your real production components. You connect GitHub, Storybook, Figma, npm packages, documentati
My entire portfolio is a Figma prototype2026A few weeks after I started at Vercel, Jay had me on Sneak Peek to show the portfolio presentation I gave when I interviewed there. It isn't a website or a slid
This tool is a cheat code for designers2025Ridd asked me on Dive Club to show how I use Unicorn Studio, and I wouldn't record it until the new Basedash website was out. It felt way too easy for how hard 
Designing Basedash2025A meeting didn't happen, and enough people had asked me how I made the footer on the Basedash website, so I opened the Unicorn Studio file and tried to rebuild Writing
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The new design process2026I think I figured out my new design process... Step 1: Brain dump This is the step where I dictate into the void. This could be either a conversation with a co-
Minimalism2025I used to think minimalism in design was an aesthetic choice, but it's not. Minimalism is a gravitational pull to focus on whatever conveys clearest meaning, ma
The Vibe Zone2025This is how I feel about vibe coding. Any project I try that has any kind of complication has this immediate burst of progress. Things are amazing and it feels 
Meant to last2025My oldest son turned seven this year. He shares a birthday week with his Grandpa, so this we decided to go to Disneyworld all together. Days at Disney are easil
What is an AI-Native Product?2025We’ve all seen the explosion of AI features slapped onto products over the past year. Little Copilot buttons in the corner. Chat sidebars. Query autocompletion.