Design & Media

In the Weeds: Print-on-Demand and the Listing Nobody Writes

Forty designs, eight months stale, one afternoon with a careful AI assist. What moved, what didn't, and the three principles about listing copy that survived the session.

What Mainstream Productivity AI Gets Wrong About ADHD

Time-blocking that assumes you can estimate time. Habit trackers that assume consistency. Focus mode that assumes you can initiate. An honest editorial on why every mainstream productivity tool assumes the exact executive function that's the thing missing — and what designing for ADHD actually looks like.

The Spoonie Product Designer's Bench: Tools for Working With Chronic Illness in Tech

Chronic illness shapes how people work. AI tools can flatten the disability tax inside the work itself — not just in the products.

What If AI Was Actually Good For ADHD Brains? Here's What Happens When You Try

Mainstream productivity AI is designed for neurotypical users and fails ADHD users in specific, predictable ways. But AI has structural qualities — infinite patience, zero judgment, no emotional drain — that match ADHD needs surprisingly well when the tools are designed for the actual neurology.