Uses

The hardware and software I reach for every day. Designer who builds, engineer who thinks in pixels.

Hardware

  • MacBook Pro 14″—M-series chip. The battery life means I can design and build in cafes without hunting for a plug.
  • iPad + Apple Pencil—Sketching flows, rough wireframes, and the occasional note. Slower than typing, which is the point.
  • LG 27″ 4K Display—More canvas for Figma. Enough resolution that I can spot 1px misalignments that no user will ever notice.

Design

  • Figma—Where most work starts. Components, tokens, prototypes. I spend more time here than anywhere else.
  • Framer—For when a static prototype isn't enough and I need real interaction without writing a full app.
  • Raycast—Launcher, clipboard manager, colour picker. Cuts the friction between idea and execution.

Code

  • Cursor—VS Code with AI built in. Useful for the engineering side where I'm still learning idioms.
  • Warp—The only terminal I've used that feels like it was designed by someone who cares.
  • GitHub—Version control, obviously. Also where I track what I'm building and learning.

Fonts

  • Geist—Vercel's system font. Neutral enough for interfaces, characterful enough that it doesn't feel generic.
  • Söhne—My go-to for editorial work. The textures underneath 'objectivity' that Akzidenz always had.
  • Commit Mono—Monospace for code. Readable, a little characterful, not distracting.

Productivity

  • Linear—Issue tracking done right. Fast, opinionated, and the design is so good it's embarrassing for everything else.
  • Notion—Long-form notes, research, and the occasional doc that needs to look presentable.
  • Arc—Browser. Spaces keep client work and personal browsing from bleeding into each other.