HAAM Index / Systems
Long-form analysis of industries, platforms, public infrastructure, cultural systems, and the business models beneath visible experiences.
Reader promise: every system is mapped across its actors, incentives, interfaces, data, and consequences, not treated as an isolated trend.
July 7, 2026 · 16 min read
How characters, storyworlds, cultural assets, and licensing systems can create new product categories, from fictional-character fragrance to spaces, rituals, services, and communities.
July 7, 2026 · 11 min read
A reconstructed field note on regional ecosystem bridging, public goods, DeSci, identity, market infrastructure, and the social layer connecting a citywide Web3 week.
July 4, 2026 · 15 min read
How digital assets become measurable signals, how automation turns those signals into business intelligence, and how funnels connect design decisions to business outcomes.
July 4, 2026 · 16 min read
What NCKU's architecture studios, industrial design classes, and ICID taught me about treating every digital product as an intervention in a place with history.
July 4, 2026 · 12 min read
From grids and motion to probability, optimization, and AI, design turns mathematical relationships into things humans can see, use, and trust.
July 4, 2026 · 14 min read
Why familiar dramatic ideas can remain deeply attractive, and what narrative design shares with interaction design.
July 2, 2026 · 12 min read
A reconstructed field note on workouts, AI agents, tokenized bao, crypto comedy, event overload, and Hong Kong as the interface connecting it all.
July 1, 2026 · 15 min read
Mariana Lin shaped Siri's character, Apple engineered its prosody, and OpenAI protects its timing. Together, they show why voice interfaces are written, synthesized, and networked at once.
July 1, 2026 · 13 min read
A first-person retrospective on AI Frontiers 2017, where assistants, video understanding, self-driving cars, and applied deep learning revealed interface problems AI still has not solved.
July 1, 2026 · 17 min read
How vertical drama compresses classical storytelling into hooks, emotional spikes, cliffhangers, retention metrics, and purchase decisions.
July 1, 2026 · 14 min read
Remote design roles increasingly expect functional prototyping, coding agents, AI media workflows, and design engineering. Here is what the new stack is actually for.
July 1, 2026 · 18 min read
What I learned after scanning years of Taiwanese receipts: a national system connecting tax enforcement, retail data, lotteries, private apps, and privacy.
June 30, 2026 · 12 min read
How mobile fiction combines storytelling, interface design, paid acquisition, payments, localization, and AI into one tightly engineered system.
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