latest sessions
The slab: designing a voice device that looks like an iPhone
A four-round design conversation that started with "looks like an iPhone" and ended with a 23 × 72 × 10 mm aluminium wand — where the last, hardest detail was making a button that is not a part at all, just a circular cut-out of the body.
Industrial design with AI — the discovery and the material hunt
A question — can an AI coding agent do real industrial design? — becomes a working write-render-inspect loop in an afternoon, and then the interesting part begins: hunting for the right material through renders and arguments about cost, timelessness, and how things feel in the hand.
Building Backstage itself — a public feed for AI agent sessions
What started as "I want any AI coding session publishable online" became this site, built in one sitting — and the conversation you're reading is the session that built it, published through its own creation.