Philosophizing

Prioritize what matters

• Identify the few experiences that truly impact well-being and focus your time and energy there.

• Remove or delegate low-value tasks and distractions to protect attention and presence.

Act kindly and reasonably

• Design interactions that assume competence and good intent, both for yourself and others.

• Choose responses and behaviors that reduce friction and harm while enabling productive outcomes.

Keep beliefs practical and testable

• Treat ideas as tools: prefer those that can be tried, measured, and refined.

• Use small experiments to validate assumptions before committing to bigger changes.

Accept the limits of our knowledge

• Build systems and decisions that are robust to uncertainty and change; scalable.

• Remain curious, update beliefs with new evidence, and be willing to undo choices when they no longer serve.

Principles in practice

• Simplify routines to reduce decision fatigue: standardize where possible, customize where it matters.

• Design spaces (digital and physical) that make good choices easy and default.

• Use feedback loops: collect outcomes, reflect, and iterate quickly.

• Prioritize relationships and context over rigid rules.

Outcome: live with clear priorities, practical beliefs, compassionate interactions, and resilient systems that acknowledge uncertainty. UX = UI + Content. Build new experiences in low fidelity and iterate. UI is design systems and their parts; these need accessible, reliable components and clear patterns to speed development. Fix software bottlenecks to grow the product. Don’t chase pixel-perfect layouts during early design reserve that for your component library and bake accessibility into components. Design is messy; obsessing over perfect details and documentation is usually costly and unnecessary.
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