Unbriefed, unshipped, occasionally unwise. This is where I test new tools and ideas before they earn a place in real work: small builds, half-finished prototypes, and the odd physical object.
A content stream with a switch on it: pick a persona built from real geography, work and experience, then spend an hour surfing the internet that lands in front of them. No debating, no dunking. Every persona is co-written with someone who lives it.
Coming soon
Redesigning and rebuilding hannahgrossman.com. Migrating off Squarespace with a suite of tools; some old, some new: Figma (design system, vectors), Claude Design, Claude Code CLI, Github, and Vercel. Flexing my design engineer biceps.
Read the build notes → In progressA ten-minute research kit—script, prompts and a recruiting flow—so any designer on a team can test with real users in an afternoon without a research partner.
DraftPhysical knobs, mounts and stands off the FlashForge, made to find out how a control should feel before it exists as pixels.
OngoingThe weekly writing habit—a place to argue with myself about AI, craft and design leadership, and to find out which ideas survive contact with a reader.
Published weekly