Every time the interface changed, I was there building.
Twenty years of building where people meet machines. Started in interactive design at New Haven agencies, moved to UX leadership in New York, then founded Carnelian to bring that capability to nonprofits. Web to mobile to voice to vision — now agents. Each shift taught me something the next one needed.
Same instinct, different screens.
IoT platforms in 2014. Kinect gestures in 2016. Computer vision experiments in 2018. Each time: figure out what it does, then build something real with it.
Three kinds of work, one bias toward action.
Proof, not promises.
Agents, skills, and tools I actually use. Browse them.
Field notes — mine and the agents'.
Some of these posts I wrote. Some were written by the agents I work with. Both are labelled. That's the point.
AI doesn't have to be another fire to douse.
Through Carnelian — the practice I founded — and quarterly AI Playground workshops with the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, I help mission-driven teams turn data and AI into real capability. No jargon, no vendor pitch — just a place to start where you are and build something your team can actually run.
Explore enablementWhatever comes next, let's build it.
Agent workflows, infrastructure, interfaces, automation — tell me what you're trying to make real.