HAAM RawDrafts.Space is an experimental studio for accessible digital products, prototypes, tools, and new interaction ideas.
Read-only public contract for HAAM's agent-readable web layer.
Machine-readable index of public HAAM pages, services, projects, blog posts, browser features, team roles, and knowledge-base records.
JSON-LD graph describing HAAM's organization, website, services, offers, products, projects, articles, and public machine-readable resources.
Localize Your Product for WeChat, Kakao, LINE, and Regional Platforms
Platform localization service for products expanding to WeChat, Kakao, LINE, and regional ecosystems with UX adaptation, compliance, and rollout support.
Platform Localization related HAAM services
Localization-sensitive communication and service design for a cross-cultural audience with clear narrative adaptation.
Cross-border user flows balancing language, trust, and transaction behavior for international users.
Behavior-shaping product design approach transferable to market-specific onboarding and decision patterns.
AI UX Audit for Clearer, More Reliable User Journeys
AI UX and governance sprint by Kris Haamer. Find trust gaps, unclear AI interactions, human oversight issues, and prioritized fixes.
Research-driven sustainability product where decision support patterns had to be understandable and actionable.
In-flow guidance prototype tested in live browsing contexts to validate behavior-change interaction quality.
Cross-platform journey design work balancing UX clarity, technical constraints, and real purchase behavior.
Accessibility Audit for Better UX, Compliance, and Reach
EAA accessibility readiness and WCAG audit service by Kris Haamer for keyboard, semantics, contrast, focus order, documentation, and remediation planning.
Accessibility Audit (WCAG) related HAAM services
Content and interface clarity work with emphasis on understandable communication and better user comprehension.
Complex multi-step flows where clear information hierarchy and accessible interaction structure mattered.
Social-impact communication project requiring clear narrative flow across diverse audiences.
UX/UI Design and Development in One Delivery Loop
UX/UI design and development service by Kris Haamer. From product strategy and interaction design to production-ready frontend delivery.
UX/UI Design and Development related HAAM services
Full journey delivery across web and mobile touchpoints for purchase, activation, and ongoing account management.
Research-backed product shaping where design decisions were connected directly to user evidence.
Brand and digital platform design focused on clear product communication and practical usability.
Conversion Rate Optimization Through UX and Interaction Design
Conversion-focused UX service by Kris Haamer. Improve activation, purchase, and completion rates through design and interaction optimization.
Conversion Rate Optimization UX related HAAM services
Conversion-sensitive purchase and account management flows where clear sequencing and trust signals were critical.
Behavior-change prompts tested in real shopping flows to improve decision quality at key moments.
User research and iterative product shaping to improve actionability and long-term engagement.
Website Analytics and Experimentation for Smarter Product Decisions
Website analytics and experimentation service by Kris Haamer. Connect UX decisions to measurable behavior data and iterative product improvements.
Website Analytics and Experimentation related HAAM services
Research and product framing work that connected user insight to feature prioritization and decision behavior.
Flow optimization opportunities across acquisition, activation, and retention touchpoints.
Interaction experiments to learn which sustainability cues drive meaningful user action.
AI Search Visibility Optimization for SEO and AI-SEO
AI search visibility optimization by Kris Haamer. Improve discoverability in AI-assisted search with clear content structure, entity signals, and technical SEO.
AI Search Visibility Optimization related HAAM services
Content architecture and clarity decisions designed for faster user understanding and stronger discovery.
Campaign communication platform with clear narrative structure and multi-channel discoverability goals.
Service communication and user journey clarity important for acquisition-stage decision behavior.
Design System and Handoff That Speeds Up Product Delivery
Design system and handoff service by Kris Haamer. Build scalable UI patterns, interaction rules, and design-engineering workflows for faster delivery.
Design System and Handoff related HAAM services
Multi-surface product work requiring consistent interaction language across web and mobile touchpoints.
Design consistency and communication structure work to strengthen clarity and maintainability.
Research-informed interaction decisions translated into repeatable product patterns.
Ecommerce UX Optimization for Better Conversion and Trust
Ecommerce UX optimization by Kris Haamer. Improve product discovery, decision confidence, and checkout flow performance with practical UX changes.
Ecommerce UX Optimization related HAAM services
Purchase-focused digital flow work with practical UX decisions across product selection and activation.
Decision assistance patterns embedded directly in shopping-related browsing moments.
Behavior and sustainability decision support work relevant to ecommerce trust and action quality.
AI Loyalty Programme Design for Better Customer Retention
AI loyalty programme design service for businesses that want smarter rewards, lifecycle journeys, and customer retention systems.
AI Loyalty Programmes related HAAM services
Purchase and activation journey work relevant to lifecycle nudges, renewal moments, and customer confidence after conversion.
Behavior-shaping product design experience that translates well to loyalty missions, habit loops, and meaningful customer incentives.
In-context decision support patterns that show how timely prompts can guide repeat action without overwhelming the user.
Fix the AI moments that make users hesitate by redesigning one critical journey across trust, correction, failure, and human oversight.
B2B SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, internal tools, copilots, recommendations, AI search, support flows, and agents where mistakes carry real cost.
Review WCAG-facing product risk, prioritize remediation, and produce a clear accessibility plan for design and engineering teams.
Ecommerce, memberships, public-information sites, cultural platforms, and consumer digital services in Europe.
Turn messy analytics, CRO ideas, and AI-search anxiety into a practical measurement model and 90-day optimization roadmap.
SaaS, marketing sites, ecommerce, and expert-led businesses with traffic but unclear product priorities.
Adapt product flows, trust cues, UX copy, and platform constraints for multilingual or regional ecosystem launches.
Scoped after market and partner needs are clear
A country-by-country database of designers and studios that turns AI-started work into scoped, credited, consent-based human collaboration.
A Chrome extension that photographs websites and sends each image, source URL, title, and timestamp to a private HAAM account.
A privacy-first Chrome extension that fills repetitive, factual job application fields while leaving sensitive questions, judgment, review, and submission to the applicant.
A private browser-based canvas for arranging images, notes, and color swatches into a visual direction, then exporting the board as a PNG or portable project file.
A browser-local award discovery and submission workspace for comparing deadlines, fees, eligibility, project fit, notes, and pipeline status.
A browser-local decision workspace for assessing opportunities against principles, strategy, evidence, capacity, opportunity cost, reversibility, and hard stops.
A closure planning workspace for coordinating ownership, notice, migration, data export, support, shutdown, verification, and institutional preservation.
A browser-native 3D world editor for spatial websites, product environments, immersive case studies, IndexedDB drafts, hotspots, and portable world exports.
A browser-native production environment that brings private photo editing, video editing, 3D scene composition, and spatial world publishing together under one studio identity.
A financial and sustainability companion that helps people understand the consequences of everyday purchases.
A public Wi-Fi discovery and trust platform for finding, understanding, and improving real-world connectivity.
A fast conversion diagnostic that turns journey friction into measurement events, experiments, and a practical roadmap.
A browser-native test space for agent tools, HTTP payments, local AI, local-first storage, streaming interfaces, portable execution, and emerging identity APIs.
A live signal scanner that ranks public social conversations and rising searches for a niche, then turns them into actionable marketing angles.
A passive website security scanner that reviews HTTPS, TLS, response headers, cookies, mixed content, disclosure, CAA, and vulnerability reporting posture.
An evidence-backed website scanning system that turns verified friction into human-reviewed findings and proposals.
A storytelling-led platform for Nile Basin initiatives, weaving regenerative practice, cultural memory, and community collaboration into a clear digital entry point.
A creative hub in Narva, Estonia that offers artists opportunities for residencies, exhibitions, and cultural projects, supporting artistic development through open calls, workshops, and collaborative initiatives.
A task-oriented museum platform that helps visitors plan trips, understand literary heritage, and discover educational, group, and venue programmes.
Development by Kris Haamer / HAAM. Graphic design and visual mockups by Anneli Kenk (files and updates shared in February-March 2017).
An annual art festival in Pärnu, Estonia that connects new trends with traditional art forms, featuring international performances, gallery tours, art markets, and exhibitions across urban and beach spaces.
A contemporary art event exploring "Animistic Cosmologies," focusing on alternative perspectives that respect nature and life beyond human experience, encouraging knowledge sharing across Baltic and Nordic regions.
A visual artist's portfolio website showcasing paintings that explore themes of portraiture, animals, and dreamlike imagery, featuring diverse subjects and creative artistic expression.
A Brazilian project focusing on "Secrets of the Forest," exploring environmental themes, forest conservation, and the natural heritage of Brazil's diverse ecosystems and biodiversity.
A TEDx event I co-organized in São Tomé where I designed and built the site, shaped the program, and produced the country's first livestream after the undersea internet cable landed, connecting local and global audiences in real time.
An Italian cultural and hospitality project representing "The Three Marvels," encompassing accommodations and cultural initiatives across various Italian locations including Bari, Catania, and other regions.
A Swedish-language theatre in Finland that creates contemporary performance art, presenting "the contemporary world in a new and unexpected form" with productions like "AF KLINT" and "1984".
A comprehensive digital platform providing information and resources about life in Finland, designed to help people understand Finnish culture, society, and practical aspects of living in the country.
A cultural project showcasing 100 significant Finnish objects that explore Finland's history and national identity through a curated collection of artifacts and stories.
A comprehensive art and design institution offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs across various disciplines including art, design, architecture, visual culture, and conservation, with a focus on creative education and research.
An affordable rehearsal venue in Helsinki for freelancers and independent theatre groups, offering a 93 m2 facility, stage-ready setup, and online calendar-based booking.
A campaign website and digital touchpoint supporting World Cleanup Day, helping people understand the movement and take part in coordinated local actions.
A public Wi-Fi discovery and security platform combining destination search, maps, filters, community data, and transparent network-quality scoring.
A social-impact film campaign from Sao Tome and Principe focused on domestic violence awareness, built around the documentary "What Should Elsa Do?" and launched on February 19, 2016. The platform documents cast, creators, and local partners while extending outreach through media coverage on VOA Portugues, RDP Africa, Deutsche Welle, RTP Africa, and Rede Angola.
Archived web development work for the Estonian Association of Interior Architects, spanning the ESL website, SISU symposium pages, and the SISU_LINE journal platform.
Graphic design by Stuudio Stuudio, including the SISU 2016 design. I was responsible for development only and developed the website for both SISU years.
A sustainability companion that helps people make greener shopping and finance choices with practical, real-time guidance.
A brand and digital platform experience for Ziran Taiwan, focused on clear storytelling and accessible product communication.
A Chrome extension that surfaces sustainability signals directly in browsing flows to support better everyday decisions.
Moderna's personalized cancer therapy points toward a stranger form of generative AI: patient data goes in, a one-person medicine comes out. The drug is becoming the output of a computational system.
A ferry lounge has more nuanced privacy settings than most software. What seating areas reveal about social distance, territory, navigation, and designing behavior without commanding it.
Or creates alternatives. Nor rejects them both. In language, logic, and design, the smallest double refusal reveals how constraints can become a generative system.
China Has Apps for Things We Still Call Society
A field atlas of the Chinese software operating families, workers, merchants, markets, mobility, desire, and the state, and what changes when an app becomes an institution.
Why calling something a failure mode turns an individual mistake into evidence about the system, and why that can reveal design or hide responsibility.
Bumble Gave Me More Time and Somehow It Feels Dead
Bumble stretched its match timer from 24 to 72 hours. The change may improve conversation completion while quietly removing the urgency that made a match feel like an event.
TSMC published a tiny English vocabulary for technicians. It looks like a word list until it starts to reveal the factory, the interface, and an older agreement between humans and machines.
AI can give us more knowledge, more options, and more reasons to wait. What happens when better advice raises the threshold for ordinary action?
At EMERGE HACK 2019, We Tried to Design for Friendship
In Minsk, 60 people had 36 hours to prototype pieces of the future. I worked on Realy, an early attempt to use software for something social platforms are strangely bad at: helping people build real friendship.
I went to the same Cursor hackathon twice. The first time I built a 3D luxury sauna. The second time I brought my mom and built a 3D memory of Venice. The difference says something about what abundant software may actually be for.
The AI Gave the Website a 6/10. I Asked Who Taught It Taste.
I asked AI to review a Finnish cultural website. The useful part was not the score, but discovering the invisible idea of good design behind it.
AI agents are giving ordinary people executive-level delegation power without the operational experience that used to come before it. The next AI interface may need to make complexity legible without making us manage the work ourselves.
An unsend button can remove a database object. It cannot reverse delivery, notification, interpretation or memory. Designing deletion means deciding who controls a conversation after it has happened.
Patrick Collison's Book of Kells experiment shows the difference between recovering a visual style and rebuilding the cultural systems that give beauty meaning.
New Aesthetics Patrick Collison Tyler Cowen
AI restoration evidence inference invention
Othering begins when a category arrives before a person. Forms, media, design research and AI can all compress a life until the label starts to look like the truth.
AI coding feels unusually open because we can move between agents and models. The acquisition of Kilo Code shows how that freedom may be reorganized into a new layer of infrastructure and control.
The same crossing into Ceuta became a story about wet clothes in Portuguese reporting and a story about border pressure in Estonia. Where the camera stands decides whose fear reaches us first.
The Mathematicians Who Have to Live With Astra
OpenAI says Astra has produced ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The mathematicians around its earlier breakthrough are already showing us what the news means for time, attention, authorship, and mathematical culture.
I can tell ChatGPT and Claude how I want them to write hundreds of times. The correction feels like teaching, but the product keeps restoring a stronger voice underneath mine.
ChatGPT custom instructions writing style
AI makes the first version of a website almost effortless. The harder work begins later, when every reasonable edit risks making the product forget why it looks and behaves the way it does.
How to Become Legible Without Becoming Smaller
Job applications ask a complicated person to become a recognizable candidate. Building a business offers more authorship, but the market still demands a shape it can understand.
Every change I make to an AI draft teaches the system something about what I mean by quality. The published article shows what survived, but the edit history may reveal more about my voice than the final text alone.
The Beatles built Apple Corps when being a band could no longer contain their ambitions. I keep wondering whether HAAM is becoming the same kind of umbrella, and how to build one without turning it into an expensive collection of unfinished ideas.
Music festivals sell a temporary world where identity loosens, strangers feel intimate, and freedom arrives with a closing time.
My GDPR Rights Were Trapped Inside a Broken Dropdown
SoundCloud gave me a legal right, a dedicated request form, and a dropdown that made the right impossible to exercise.
Retailers are entering AI assistants to preserve their taste, but every successful integration teaches shoppers to begin somewhere other than the store.
My Breakthrough Salary Is Someone Else's Peanuts
What happens when the income that means rescue in one life becomes merely adequate in the expensive city where the opportunity exists?
AI can generate answers instantly. The harder skill is staying inside uncertainty long enough to discover what is actually true.
At the opening of the Estonian National Museum, a former Soviet runway became a national metaphor for memory, reinvention and a country still learning how to take off.
The Business of Making People Compete to Work
Vibe Jam, ETHGlobal, Kaggle, Topcoder, InnoCentive, HeroX and XPRIZE all turn uncertain problems into competitions where the crowd absorbs much of the risk of experimentation.
Healthcare Only Exists When Insurance Can Read It
A therapy session can happen and help a patient, yet remain financially unreal until it has been translated into the codes, evidence and permissions an insurer accepts.
Many businesses make money from something slightly different from what they appear to sell. The visible product is often the mechanism that accumulates the real asset.
The Fastest Machines in History Are Stuck Waiting
The AI race looks like a competition for more GPUs, but some of the fastest machines in history are still limited by memory, coordination and waiting.
A modern device is a coordinated organization of CPUs, GPUs, neural processors, signal processors and tiny controllers. Software design increasingly means deciding which machine receives each part of the work.
Interaction design has strong tools for screens, flows and journeys. Interaction sequence maps can expose the hidden choreography of users, interfaces, sensors, services, AI and human recovery.
sequence diagrams for interaction design
The Real Test of AI Code Is the Next Prompt
Coding agents can complete the current task while making the next one harder. New long-horizon benchmarks reveal what happens when AI has to inherit its own decisions.
AI Slop Is the Factory. Brainrot Is the Product.
Brainrot is an attention format. AI slop is a production system. Generative AI did not invent our appetite for repetitive nonsense, but it industrialized the supply and gave recommendation algorithms an infinite field of cultural experiments.
AI Slop Is the Factory Brainrot Is the Product
In comics, visual novels, memes, explainers, and serialized AI media, the image can be imperfect because its real job is to carry us toward the next panel.
A screen shows the product for a moment. A URL preserves its objects, state, position and history, making the experience shareable, revisitable and legible to people, browsers and agents.
Estonia Has the Health Record. It Needs More Measurements.
Estonia already has a national health record and a population biobank. The next infrastructure problem is producing clinically useful measurements often enough for the system to see change.
Estonia Has the Health Record It Needs More Measurements
Your STI Test Could Unlock a Dating Profile
Dating profiles reveal almost everything except the information that becomes relevant when two people decide to become intimate. Laboratory-verified health data could become a reciprocal permission layer instead of another static badge.
AI does not merely inherit an organization’s confused files, labels and policies. It turns that confusion into answers, decisions and actions.
The Work Takes the Shape of the Tools I Have Access To
I looked through my GitHub, inbox, Drive, and Slack to see what tools HAAM actually uses. The result was less a toolkit than an operating system that keeps turning different ideas into similar forms.
the work takes the shape of the tools I have access to
The Checkout Robot Accused Me Before I Started Shopping
A self-checkout machine mistook an empty shopping bag for an unscanned product because it had already decided the setup phase was over. The error reveals how automation turns ordinary human variation into exception work.
My Screenshots Know About the Life I Almost Lived
Photographs record the life I lived. Screenshots preserve the larger field of possibilities around it: unfinished intentions, recurring obsessions, abandoned futures and the changing shape of my attention.
The hidden job market includes work companies have not yet named. Missing would analyse organisations, identify absent capabilities, design the role and find the person who can build it.
A pillow is a small argument between filling, fabric, seams and gravity. Learning to draw one means learning to see the invisible forces beneath a visible form.
Why Can’t a Food Delivery App Tell Me What Dinner Costs?
Professor Octo compares four food delivery checkouts and discovers that the final screen is part receipt, part sales funnel, and part negotiation over what dinner is allowed to cost.
Wolt Bolt Food Uber Eats foodpanda comparison
Why Can’t a Food Delivery App Tell Me What Dinner Costs
Two AIs Fought Over Who Gets to Apply for My Job
One AI carefully tailored my application. Another appeared on top of the form, ready to submit its own version without asking. Job hunting has become a fight between competing agents.
What Does a Spa Body Scanner Have in Common With a Horoscope App?
Midjourney is building a science-based ultrasound body scanner and has bought an astrology app. AI is creating companies that no longer need one industry, one product logic, or even one standard of truth.
Why Is AI Making Me Think About Business Strategy?
AI has made execution so easy that the harder questions arrive first: who needs this, why now, what deserves to be built and which future is worth committing to.
Why Is AI Making Me Think About Business Strategy
What Kind of Worker Is AI Allowed to Become?
Asana, ClickUp, Linear, Notion, Atlassian, Microsoft and monday.com are not building the same AI teammate. Their interfaces are quietly deciding whether AI becomes a colleague, delegate, automation, specialist network or outside worker.
What Kind of Worker Is AI Allowed to Become
AI agents become economically consequential when they can hold a budget, purchase tools, hire other agents and commit scarce resources. The wallet turns software from a tool into a customer, employer and tiny organization.
The Shopping List Is Becoming a Constitution
A grocery agent does not merely build a basket. It turns budget, values, substitutions and commercial loyalties into a permission system that decides what becomes visible and whose interests the software serves.
Language models can reason through difficult problems and still corrupt a string while copying it. The failure reveals where AI products need deterministic software, visible provenance and a harness around the model.
frontier language models struggle to copy
deterministic software around language models
My grandmother called every day. My mother's phone never rang. Both were telling the truth. An iPad in another city reveals how invisible routing makes software write stories about other people's intentions.
invisible call routing interaction design
AI Is Digging Up the Projects We Left Behind
AI may be more interesting as a way to reopen old films, code, research, manuscripts and archives than as another machine for making new things.
Spotify is exploring whether years of historical data need another home, or simply a better address.
AI is not only automating work. It is beginning to automate making itself, one of the oldest ways humans experience agency, growth, belonging, and meaning.
I connected an old hard drive and asked what was on it. The computer could answer almost everything except what had happened.
Eleven terabytes can hold thousands of possible films. Storage alone does not decide which one is true.
A solitary editor sits inside a vast cyberpunk archive built from hard drives, film strips, and thousands of suspended frames.
A licensed analyst report looks like content. In the interface it becomes a machine for turning anonymous research into qualified demand.
Growingannanas looks like a fitness creator. Look closer and she is a vertically integrated global gym whose building, instructor, billboard and membership funnel have been compressed into one person.
The Institution That Only Exists During the Opening
Art Week Estonia and Tallinn Biennial were my clients. Their dormant websites reveal a global cultural system that funds visible editions more readily than the institutions required to keep producing them.
Apple can now generate a Safari extension from a description. The stranger shift is that useful software no longer needs a market, a name, or a reason to become a permanent product.
What K-Drama Clips Taught Me About Arbitrage
A YouTube channel reached around 60 million views by repackaging scenes other people made. It made me wonder where online arbitrage ends and a durable company begins.
What if every continuing interest had a small app that could absorb what I learn, survive my attention moving elsewhere, and occasionally reveal that one forgotten bet had become valuable?
We keep trying to increase intelligence, speed, and output while overlooking the narrower resource that decides what becomes real: the human ability to keep returning to something.
information abundance attention scarcity
The Product Died. The Growth Hacker Won.
Nikita Bier built two apps that reached number one, sold them to Facebook and Discord, and watched both disappear within months. The more interesting product may have been the public proof that he could manufacture growth.
I knew NCKU as buildings, paths, studios, and cafeterias. Mapping the books behind every department revealed more than a hundred incompatible ways of deciding what reality is.
National Cheng Kung University departments
how academic disciplines shape perception
AI can now generate one hundred working apps faster than a single product can find one hundred paying users. The challenge reveals that software has become cheap enough to function as a draft.
Codex could build the iOS app, but App Store Connect exposed the creation step only through a contextual modal. One missing click stopped the entire automated workflow.
Claude Design Can Touch the Canvas, but Not the Product
Claude Design can import a codebase, use a real design system, and sync with Claude Code. Yet Anthropic still treats the moment a design becomes software as a handoff.
The AI Was Easy. Understanding the Company Was Hard
Operational AI is making software companies rediscover the bespoke human work they spent years trying to avoid: entering messy organisations, mapping real processes, and staying responsible until the system actually works.
The Person Who Decides What Counts as Work
Senior consulting roles such as Transformation Lead do more than sell or deliver projects. They turn organisational uncertainty into a problem, a budget and work for everyone else.
A Finnish directory of software companies becomes more interesting when read backwards: not as a list of vendors, but as a map of problems organisations were willing to pay to solve.
A Good Building Can Still Make a Bad City
New developments can contain competent buildings and still produce weak streets, disconnected routes, dead ground floors, and places that do not add up to a city.
real estate development project thinking
I kept photographing animals at the edge of European cities. Geneva treated sheep as ecological infrastructure, Viimsi preserved them as heritage, Portugal barely explained its horse, and Tartu now presents an old relationship as urban innovation.
Your DNA Is Finished, but the Product Cannot Be
I uploaded my DNA once. Genomelink and YourRoots show how a fixed biological file becomes an endless product of traits, ancestors, maps, hints, and unfinished identity.
Why apps acknowledge the tap but hide what happens next, and how silent interfaces transfer operational uncertainty from companies to users.
AI has made implementation cheap enough that code is no longer my main bottleneck. The harder limit is deciding what a product should do and which ideas deserve to exist.
implementation is no longer the bottleneck
Learned helplessness is usually treated as a problem inside a person. What changes when interfaces, institutions, and opaque feedback loops help produce it?
Two camps of version numbering, one App Store rejection, and the quiet story every release tells. What happens when a marketing version is a promise only memory enforces.
The Interface That Wants You to Touch It
A Japanese puzzle box in Grace turns curiosity into a trap, and reveals the difference between a difficult interface, a dark pattern, and a system that quietly uses the person using it.
Vercel's Fluid Compute setting looks like a binary preference, but it is really a pricing and execution decision made under uncertainty. What would it mean for cloud interfaces to explain consequences instead of only exposing controls?
I Have Been Going to Viljandi Folk Since I Was a Kid
Viljandi Folk was changing my hometown, my behaviour, and my sense of what a temporary world could be long before I had the language to call any of it design.
A bag of Rimi tomatoes led from an Estonian supermarket to Western Sahara, desert groundwater, European courts, refugee camps, and a specific test of what Green Filter should reveal.
Duolingo, Snapchat, Apple Fitness, Strava, Finch, Shopee, GitHub, and other apps use similar streak interfaces to create very different forms of discipline, care, obligation, identity, and commercial repetition.
What If the Places I Lived Became Games?
Argentina, São Tomé, and Taiwan were not backgrounds to the same life. Each place changed the rules, what I noticed, and who I could become there.
AI Knows Visual Styles We Barely Have Names For
The interesting part of AI graphic design is not its ability to imitate Bauhaus or Brutalism. It is what happens when obscure visual languages collide.
The Blockchain Survived. The Product Didn't.
Web3 promised that assets and protocols could outlive companies. The shutdowns revealed that permanent data cannot preserve interfaces, maintenance, understanding, or care.
The Most Dangerous Interface Is the One That Says Everything Worked
Medical software becomes dangerous not only when it crashes, but when it quietly accepts an action, hides a failure, and lets clinicians continue with false confidence.
AI has made production cheap enough that the scarce act is no longer creation, but choosing what deserves to enter a product, a company, or a life.
When AI makes publishing almost frictionless, the difficult question is no longer whether another essay can be produced. It is whether the thought needed to become public at all.
The Smart City Breaks Between the Systems
Cities already have sensors, apps, data, and infrastructure. The harder problem is what happens in the gaps where no department, vendor, or interface owns the complete experience.
Seventy-One Labs, Seventy-One Different Futures
A map of AI labs starts as a comparison of models and headcounts, then turns into a question about which parts of knowledge, work, culture, science, and physical reality each institution wants to own.
Google separated Antigravity from Antigravity IDE because direct manipulation and delegation are not merely two modes of the same interface. They create different distances between the user, the work, and responsibility for the result.
The World Runs on Companies You Have Never Heard Of
Why obscure industries, ugly operational software, and the hidden systems beneath ordinary life may be more interesting than another polished consumer app.
AI Can Make the Screenshot. The Game Is Somewhere Behind It.
AI can already generate beautiful frames, moving scenes, explorable environments, and usable 3D assets. The harder problem is building the persistent systems, art direction, game feel, and judgement behind them.
What an old Amtrak trip, Taiwan High Speed Rail, and Acela reveal about the difference between upgrading a component and redesigning the system around it.
The Prototype Has Become Too Cheap to Trust
What happens when UX Pilot, Figma Make, v0, Lovable, Replit, Cursor, and Codex let an idea acquire all the external signs of a product before it has survived an argument.
UX Pilot Figma Make v0 Lovable comparison
The Interface Arrived Before the Institution
What Venezuela's citizen-built earthquake tools reveal about AI, emergency infrastructure, and software that acquires public responsibility before it has governance.
temporary software public responsibility
Why Companies Build Myths Around Ordinary Things
An interactive Lacoste factory led me into the stranger question of why companies spend so much effort turning shoes, shirts, computers, cars, and even water into symbolic worlds.
why companies create interactive brand experiences
The Data Warehouse Is Becoming an Operator
How AI turns Snowflake and similar data platforms from places that answer questions into systems that detect problems, prepare actions, and verify outcomes.
Every Event App Has a Different Theory of Why We Leave the House
Eventbrite, Meetup, Resident Advisor, DICE, Luma, Partiful, Posh, and Somo are not merely listing events. Each one has a different theory of how discovery becomes commitment.
The Coding Assistant Is Becoming the Development System
Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Zed, GitHub Copilot, JetBrains Air, HumanLayer, Devin Desktop, and the shift from AI IDEs to agent orchestration systems.
The Design System Under the Design System
How Linear, Vercel, Supabase, CodeSandbox, Liveblocks, Cal.com, and Node.js use Radix Primitives, and why accessible infrastructure still creates architectural trade-offs.
Cal AI, Shazam, Loom, PhotoRoom, Otter, and Splitwise reveal a simple product pattern: replace a behavior people avoid with one obvious action.
Generative UI is not one thing. From generated choices to composed dashboards and temporary mini-apps, AI is beginning to create the interface required by each task.
Attio's home screen is clean, legible, and easy to scan. Yet onboarding can still fail when the product shows its system before it produces one useful result.
Designing Dating Apps That Make Trying Feel Safer Than Avoiding
Dating apps mediate rejection, vulnerability, and self-worth. Eight UX principles show how to reduce emotional risk without removing the courage that connection requires.
Some products create belonging by making fluency earned. Snapchat, Discord, Twitch, and other insider interfaces turn gestures, rituals, and hidden meanings into culture.
A/B testing is more than optimization. It gives organizations a cheap way to discover where taste, hierarchy, and metrics disagree with reality.
A faded V&A Dundee receipt records the exhibition I entered. Memory kept something else: Scotland's shipbuilding history and the attempt to turn waves into power.
When You Have No Money, the World Becomes Smaller
Having no money shrinks more than a bank balance. It compresses time, movement, social life, and the sense that another future is available.
AI-generated software is shortening the organizational queue between noticing a need and building a tool, while moving hidden product decisions closer to the requester.
Why Does LinkedIn Keep Pushing Puzzle-Solving as a Skill?
LinkedIn Games turn a casual daily puzzle into professional self-improvement. The deeper product is a retention loop designed through identity, timing, and institutional meaning.
I Want to Work Somewhere the Work Is Already Necessary
AI-generated work is creating a particular exhaustion: having to explain, every day, why human judgment, expertise, maintenance, and responsibility still matter.
The Best Products Aren’t Apps. They’re Cities.
A simple attempt to store a laptop, go for a run, and shower after arriving by ferry reveals how cities behave like products, with trust, transitions, and friction shaping the whole experience.
The Browser Is Becoming the Agent’s Body
Chrome DevTools for agents marks the shift from AI that writes software to AI that can observe, test, and correct what it made.
Why a new category of app blockers asks us to earn Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube through squats, steps, and deliberately reintroduced friction.
apps that block social media until exercise
The Lesson Is Cheap. The Sequence Is the Product.
When AI can generate and reformat a polished lesson in seconds, the scarce part of learning becomes deciding what should happen next.
A Garmin watch that can measure almost everything still cannot understand an interruption. What a missing pause state reveals about feature accumulation, product models, and AI-era usability debt.
As AI agents begin acting inside companies, technical capability is no longer enough. Their real fit appears in the choices they make when instructions are incomplete and values conflict.
What the early history of mobile money reveals about workarounds, product discovery, and the unfinished behaviors that become tomorrow's infrastructure.
The AI Future Is Becoming a Land-Use Problem
The AI race is moving from models and chips into planning approvals, electricity grids, water systems, and the local politics of where intelligence is allowed to live.
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Learning a University Through Its Equations
A personal attempt to remember mathematics by mapping the equations of physics, medicine, engineering, design, computing, and other fields onto the departments of NCKU.
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Why writing, prototypes, and small experiments can reveal ideas that planning alone cannot, and how unfinished work can become a method.
Writing does not merely record what we have learned. A raw draft makes thought visible, tests ideas, creates connections, and helps understanding take shape.
Luxury museums, open AI models, and private wealth services all point to the same shift: value is moving from the thing being sold into the system surrounding it.
AI has made software cheap enough to become a draft: a working question, experiment, or argument that can encounter reality before it becomes a product.
Large language models do not need to invent from nothing to contribute to innovation. Their real value may be expanding the field of drafts that people can notice, test, and develop.
Scientific Expeditions Are Raw Drafts of Knowledge
Scientific expeditions reveal knowledge before it becomes polished: uncertain, physical, tool-shaped, and open to being revised by reality.
A proposal for a Raw Drafts recommendation system that rewards curiosity, return visits, intellectual movement, and creation rather than raw engagement.
The Infinite Canvas Is No Longer the Hard Part
AI can now generate a convincing real-time board quickly. The product-management challenge is preserving meaning as ideas become designs, tasks, and commitments across systems.
How Estonia uses strategic foresight in public policy, and why its work with signals, scenarios, and preparedness feels familiar inside Raw Drafts.
AI coding makes it reasonable to build small, temporary tools around a single creative problem, then discard them when the work is done.
I Asked for a Drawing Teacher and Got a Poster
I wanted one small drawing lesson at a time. The first response showed me the whole path instead.
A personal audit of the gaps that keep showing up across my projects: selling, focus, repetition, measurement, and deciding which skills deserve more time.
How walkability, transit, third places, safety, and repeated encounters shape who gets to meet, date, and build a relationship.
How streets, public services, data, culture, and infrastructure turn urban planning into an everyday experience.
The Island Inside Other People's Gardens
Taiwan built an open digital democracy while much of its everyday public life moved into privately governed platforms.
What Japan's one-month AI startups reveal about the difference between building a model, deploying a product, and changing an organization.
Every Interface Contains a Business Model
How business goals become buttons, defaults, friction, notifications, and everyday user behaviour.
The Further You Go in UX, the Less It Looks Like UX
What fourteen University of Washington speakers reveal about where influence, compensation, and professional value migrate as UX careers advance.
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How Chinese beauty brands compress celebrity loyalty, collectibility, scarcity, social participation, and sales attribution into one retail object.
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The Biggest Stories in the World Are Not Always in English
What words such as jeonse, akiya, turistificación, pedestrian hell, and xiancheng reveal about the systems global media leaves out.
Six Works That Explain Why the Road Goes South
A painting, a radio documentary, two songs, a planning study, and an architecture project reveal how the Great Lakes became a maritime highway, a road barrier, and a southern urban corridor.
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Doing Meaningful Work When Most of It Goes Nowhere
The 80/20 rule tells us where results come from. It says much less about how to live through the other 80 percent, especially when meaningful work becomes exhausting, invisible, or impossible to measure.
AI can identify a pattern, draft a note, or flag a patient. Healthcare reveals how much product work begins after the model produces its answer.
The Algorithm Thinks Your Past Is Your Personality
Personalization predicts the future from behavioral history, then arranges the environment so the prediction becomes increasingly true. What would it mean to design recommendation systems for change, surprise, and the person someone wants to become?
Coding-agent harnesses regulate how software changes. Product-assurance harnesses regulate whether the changed product still keeps its promises to users, operators, buyers, and regulators.
What Happens When Software Starts Making Decisions
I used to think software helped people carry out decisions. Once it begins interpreting situations and acting for an organization, product design starts to look much more like policy and management.
Digital Product Assurance Is the Evidence Behind Trust
Product assurance connects a product's promises to traceable evidence. For digital products, that evidence must include security, reliability, performance, accessibility, UX, and real-world outcomes.
How human physiology, art history, ergonomics, physical objects, and digital systems show that size shapes how people reach, lift, read, trust, carry, and live with products.
Around ETHSeoul and BUIDL Asia, Seoul became a dense field site for zero-knowledge systems, Ethereum scaling, builder culture, and the social life of infrastructure.
GreenChill: Public Goods Need a Public Place
A reconstructed field note from GreenChill in Yoyogi Park, where a DAO TOKYO side event turned public-goods theory into an open, low-pressure gathering under the sky.
How Companies Actually Do Data-Driven Design
What Netflix thumbnails, Duolingo streaks, Booking.com experiments, Spotify learning rates, Uber metrics, Airbnb guardrails, and Google's 41 shades of blue reveal about designing with data.
What Cointelegraph's missing articles, front-end compromise, and search collapse reveal about website security, digital preservation, and operational trust.
How Pinterest, Xiaohongshu, Are.na, Behance, Cosmos, and other visual platforms shape design inspiration, cultural awareness, taste, and creative sameness.
Before the Games: Fashion, Mountains, and Power at Montagna Milano
A field note from Milan Men’s Fashion Week 2026, where Vogue, GQ, and K-Way turned alpine culture into a public conversation weeks before the Winter Olympics.
What Sketch, Flinto, InVision, Figma, Framer, film, research, and twenty years of building taught me about design tools, judgment, and keeping an idea alive through implementation.
Yellow Blue Bus: An Emotional Translation Experiment at LOVEHACK Minsk
A personal archive note on continuing Yellow Blue Bus at LOVEHACK in Minsk in July 2018 after the idea first emerged and was prototyped at Garage48 Visual Hackathon 2018.
Mapping Waste Before the Cleanup: State of the Map 2018 in Milan
A personal archive note from State of the Map 2018, where Kris Haamer and Kadri Maripuu presented MapIt: Global Trash Hunt and treated OpenStreetMap as coordination infrastructure for World Cleanup Day.
A corrected archive note from Garage48 Hardware & Arts Riga 2018, where our team built Digital AID / Grandma, a physical medication-support device, and I built its web layer.
After Nostalgia: Korea's Passage from Y2K to Y3K
Korean fashion and pop culture moved from replaying the early internet to constructing post-human worlds. The next phase will join futurism with heritage, craft, climate adaptation, and emotionally expressive technology.
Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 and the Work of Making Local Data Legible
A first-person field note from Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 at National Taipei University, where Wikidata Taiwan gathered people around the theme of local data and the public work required to keep it useful.
GAIC Hangzhou 2026: AI Was Becoming an Industry of Workflows
A field note from an AI industry event in Hangzhou, where engineering design, electronic contracts, machine memory, and comic-drama production showed AI moving beyond the chat window.
A field note from September 2025, when a developer training at 42 Paris turned blockchain from market language into questions of accounts, permissions, payments, assets, and interface responsibility.
Slush 2016 and the Architecture of Ambition
A personal archive note from Helsinki on attending Slush 2016 and seeing how a student-built event turned Nordic ambition into shared infrastructure.
The Water Fountain Exists, but the System Does Not Let You Reach It
The V&A East Storehouse opened its collection to public requests, but the strike by the workers delivering that access reveals where friction, power, and bodily cost moved behind the interface.
Planet began in my inbox as a small satellite startup. Eleven years later, it has become part of how forests, borders, wars, disasters, and physical change are remembered.
At Expo 2025 Osaka, the queues, QR codes, pavilion lotteries, smartphone dependence, and brief human encounters revealed as much about future society as the exhibitions did.
A field note from my participation in the Waste ID team at Hack for Sweden 2019, where we prototyped a QR-based identity layer for discarded products.
Design Shanghai 2026: The Building Was Part of the Exhibition
A professional visitor field note from Design Shanghai's return to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, where architecture, craft, materials, global brands, and the city itself formed one design system.
MongoDB Europe 2018 and the Infrastructure Behind a Global Day of Action
A personal archive note from MongoDB Europe at Old Billingsgate in London, when work on World Cleanup Day made database reliability a practical product concern.
Web Summit 2016 and the Week Lisbon Became a Technology Capital
A personal archive note from the first Lisbon edition of Web Summit, reconstructed from my 2016 Instagram post, calendar, and the city-wide network that formed around the conference.
Every Coding Agent Needs a Regression Agent
AI can produce the next version of a product in minutes. Teams now need agents that remember what the previous version promised and detect when code, interfaces, performance, accessibility, data, or user journeys quietly move backward.
Verified revenue does not tell us what to build. It tells us where to look for the next product constraint.
A market overview of the platforms turning the internet into a universal workshop, and the missing layer between making an artifact and delivering a complete real-world outcome.
Life-centered design expands responsibility beyond the immediate user to communities, other species, ecosystems, infrastructure, and people who will inherit the consequences.
How neuroscience uses films to study attention, memory, emotion, narrative, and shared experience, from fMRI and eye tracking to the CognitiveNeuro&Movies group at NCKU.
YODEX, the Design City I Could Only Visit
As a master's student at NCKU, I could not exhibit at Taipei's YODEX. Walking through it several times instead taught me to see design education as a temporary city, a public ritual, and a living system.
AI-generated tables of Estonian and Finnish design companies reveal not one design market, but an ecology shaped by directories, activity codes, procurement, software, symbolic capital, and invisible labour.
Every designed thing negotiates forces, matter, energy, light, sound, heat, and human movement. Physics does not sit outside design as a constraint. It becomes part of the experience.
Who gets to tell, adapt, translate, profit from, or refuse a story? A framework for local storytelling, cultural appropriation, intersectionality, and ethical worldbuilding.
The Storyworld Is Older Than the Franchise
A global history of storyworlds, from clay tablets and living cosmologies to shadow puppets, comics, games, participatory fandom, and AI-generated worlds.
The AI Drama Director Is Not a Prompt Engineer
China's AI microdrama boom is revealing a new creative profession. The director no longer controls only actors and cameras, but models, continuity, compute, selection, rights, and the economics of every generated take.
AI is moving beyond the empty chat box. The durable product is the system that gathers context, generates instructions, evaluates results, controls permissions, and turns answers into work.
Motion for UX: Designing Time, Change, and Attention
A practical guide to using motion as interaction design: preserving continuity, confirming actions, directing attention, pacing information, and respecting reduced-motion preferences.
Buildspace and the Feeling That You Could Make Something Good
A personal archive note on Buildspace, the community that treated your own idea as the curriculum, what survives from my participation in 2022, and what HAAM can learn from it.
The Return of the Room: Why Companies Are Investing in Physical Events Again
AI has made digital content abundant. Physical presence is becoming scarce, memorable, and strategically valuable. What TEDxSãoTomé, hackathons, World Cleanup Day, and current event data reveal about the return of the room.
Asia's Fastest-Growing Local Media Publications Are Becoming Something Else
From Japanese business video to Filipino community platforms, Asia's emerging media winners are replacing the traditional publication with video, membership, events, and market intelligence.
The ZK Layer Was Also a Social Layer in Seoul
A Seoul field note from ETH Seoul: cryptography talks, proof systems, censorship-resistance slides, POAP rituals, prize moments, and the city context around a technical community.
The archive keeps returning to the same theme: the technical layer is visible only because a social layer turns proofs, slides, rooms, rituals, and shared jokes into a community people can enter.
A speaker at ETH Seoul standing in front of a slide that reads A group of engineers in the cryptography world.
Notes from Tainan on why products, interfaces, places, and campaigns need cultural roots before they can carry meaning.
How cultural mapping can turn places, stories, routes, archives, and audiences into a living urban interface.
Why belonging, reflection, conversation, and play should be treated as interaction design requirements.
Field observations from CiE 2026 in Hangzhou on how Chinese beauty brands connect research, packaging, manufacturing, commerce, and consumer experience.
A product launch presentation at CiE 2026. The format made technical claims, media capture, and buyer attention part of the same commercial moment.
A CiE 2026 presentation stage in Hangzhou with cameras, audience members, and product evidence shown on large screens.
Why adaptive products should ask about changing user intent instead of turning historical behavior into a permanent judgment.
Lessons from the World Cleanup app about open-source afterlives, public-interest technology, and designing responsible endings.
One Website, Four Kinds of Quality: Lessons From Viirus Theatre
A case-study view of web quality across accessibility, performance, privacy, and environmental impact.
Designing Spaces Where Mistakes Are Cheap
How psychological safety, prototypes, and reversible decisions help people and product teams learn faster.
What greetings, silence, and personal space reveal about cross-cultural interaction design.
A practical argument for generative UI with stable rules, accessible fallbacks, and meaningful user control.
Innovation Comes From People Closest to the Pain
Why appropriate technology begins with local knowledge, interoperability, and power—not imported novelty.
What waste maps, sensors, and Taiwan's garbage-truck applications teach us about making public systems legible.
A broader philosophy of maintenance across software, health, buildings, communities, and relationships.
Swimmable Cities Need a Public Interface
A proposal for turning fragmented water-quality data and urban swimming initiatives into an understandable public service.
A proposal for using film, interaction, and local voices to reveal the living worlds contained inside works of art.
How interfaces distribute knowledge, aggregate consumer demand, and influence environmental market standards.
Designing Sustainability Tools for Busy People
Why climate-aware users still struggle to act, and how better interfaces can turn complex environmental data into practical everyday decisions.
Localization Is Not Translation: Language, Culture, and Network Win Markets
A practical view of localization that goes beyond translation to include cultural fluency, local trust, and the relationships that make products land in new markets.
When Distribution Beats Product: Audience Lessons From Elsa Figueira
A founder-led essay on audience empathy, channel fit, and why the right distribution model can outperform the more ambitious product build.
AI Search Visibility in 2026: Technical and Content Strategies That Matter
How to make a website understandable to search engines, AI answer systems, and people without turning it into a content machine.
Community-Led Innovation: How Ideas, Bounties, and Hackathons Accelerate Product Learning
A practical note on turning community energy into shared learning without treating contributors as free research infrastructure.
Internal Tools for High-Leverage Teams: Reduce Busywork, Increase Focus
Why the quiet tools behind a team often decide whether people can think clearly, act responsibly, and do their best work.
Design Systems That Ship Faster: From Pattern Library to Product Velocity
A practical view of design systems as shared infrastructure for trust, accessibility, speed, and calmer product work.
Platform Localization for Global Growth: Beyond Simple Translation
Why entering a new market means learning its trust signals, platform habits, language rhythms, and ordinary user expectations.
How to Build a CRO + UX Experimentation System That Compounds
A field note on replacing random optimization tricks with a learning loop that respects users and still improves conversion.
Accessibility as a Growth Advantage: A Practical WCAG Roadmap
Why accessibility is not decoration or compliance theatre, but the condition that lets more people participate in a digital service.
The AI-Powered Web Experience Playbook for Modern Product Teams
A practical note on turning AI from a feature announcement into a web experience people can understand, trust, and actually use.
WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taipei: Accessibility Is Interaction Design at Event Scale
A field note from WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taipei on how conferences, captions, venue design, food, movement, and open-source community become interaction design.
WordCamp Asia 2024 at Taipei International Convention Center made the interface visible at several scales: a stage, a screen, live captions, a city, and a community trying to coordinate itself.
A WordCamp Asia 2024 plenary stage in Taipei with a large projected slide, bilingual captions, and the #WCAsia sign in front.
A backdated opinion note from years of hackathons, Product Hunt links, startup communities, and event-led learning on what these rooms are actually good for.
From World Cleanup Day and open waste maps to Green Filter, a backdated archive note on sustainability as an interaction-design problem.
A personal archive note on Sao Tome, Lusophone Africa, cultural infrastructure, film, music, diplomacy, and why some places keep shaping the work.
Data Visualization Was the Humane Part of AI
An opinionated archive note on why the old data-visualization habit of making complexity visible should be treated as essential AI design, not a decorative afterthought.
Interaction Design Before AI Ate the Interface
An archive note from years of UX, accessibility, HCI, and product-craft links on why AI interfaces still need older interaction-design discipline.
A first-person field note from AI Frontiers 2017 in Santa Clara, before applied deep learning had fully settled into everyday product interfaces.
AI Frontiers 2017 framed the topic as applied deep learning. The room already felt practical: researchers, engineers, founders, and product people were trying to work out what this technology would become outside papers and demos.
A speaker on stage at AI Frontiers 2017 in Santa Clara, with the event backdrop and audience visible.
A backdated archive note on film, transmedia, documentary, and why stories are not content sitting on top of products but one of the ways people enter systems.