Writing and elsewhere
Short essays on TikTok, long ones on Substack, longer videos on YouTube, and talks, a podcast and collaborations in between.
Essays
- Guilt architectureAn essay on design as debt: what the notification badge has in common with an invoice, and why “addiction” is the wrong metaphor for what your feed does to you.
- The run club essayGamified UX as managerial extraction: the leaderboard, the run club, and the mobility dataset Strava actually sells.
- The smart meterIn progress.
Everything else is on Substack.
Elsewhere
- Talk
UX Glasgow
As the first Gen Z speaker invited by UX Glasgow, I presented my research into social media literacy and how it shapes my design work.
See the event - Podcast
Sluggish: Reclaiming our digital lives
On why understanding matters more than control, how leftist values can inform tech design, and what ADHD-friendly tools beyond productivity might look like.
Listen - Interview
Surveillance and resistance, with Irma Besirevic
On how smartphones choreograph behaviour, persuasive design, digital coercion, and the liberatory potential of tech co-created with communities.
Read the interview - Writing
Catalyst
On social media literacy's role in a more equitable digital future: the accessible, values-aligned version of the research.
Read the piece - Collaboration
Sublime
A collaboration built on shared values: design that respects attention rather than extracting it, made with people rather than for them.