I've been building on the web for 15 years, designing and developing experiences for Apple, Google, Twitter, the American Music Awards, and more along the way.

Having worked in both design and engineering organizations, I have a wide breadth of experience and a deep specialization at their intersection—Design Engineering.

Here you'll find a medley of writing and side projects that explore software, design, architecture, and the internet of things. Offline, I collect twentieth-century furniture and objects, and co-own a tiny French-inspired bakery called Rêverie.

Writing & Side Projects

Sharper full-width images in Arc
Excerpts from my conversation with the popular newsletter and website.
Interview with Workspaces
Garage design/build
Blending the old with the new in the renovation of our 1920s home, adventures in custom lighting fabrication, and learning how to model in 3D.
Designing a home
2017–2018

Designing a home

Blending the old with the new in the renovation of our 1920s home, adventures in custom lighting fabrication, and learning how to model in 3D.

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Hue gallery
2016

Hue gallery

Originally authored for net magazine, this article details how to create an immersive media experience with the Philips Hue API.

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2016

The Black Pixel web stack

Written shortly after the formalization of Black Pixel's Web Services team, this post features our go-to tools and technologies for developing great experiences.

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Hacking Ikea's sit-stand desk with a Raspberry Pi to support realtime height feedback and programmatic control.
PiDesk
2015

PiDesk

Hacking Ikea's sit-stand desk with a Raspberry Pi to support realtime height feedback and programmatic control.

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AnnaAkana.com
2014

AnnaAkana.com

Designing and building a new website for multihyphenate Anna Akana, including a custom Node.js service that pipes realtime social statistics to the UI over WebSocket.

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Writing a lightweight Markdown-based blogging engine in Ruby with Sinatra.
A dance with Sinatra
An interview with Herman Miller for their Lifework blog.
Herman Miller Lifework
2012

Liftoff

Blog post accompanying a portfolio update that included future-looking support for 5k displays 2 years before they existed.

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Fond memories of an intro to design and creative work.
Hoist; the band years