Most of this came from helping companies design and ship things that actually had to work, not just look good.
Websites. Product interfaces. Internal tools. AI workflows. Early-stage systems where design, product thinking, and implementation were all tangled together.
That combination is becoming more important now.
As companies start deploying AI agents, the hard part won’t only be building them.
It will be designing the systems around them:
Evals.
Human handoffs.
Governance.
Observability.
Identity and permissions.
Cost controls.
Interfaces people can actually trust and operate.
That’s the direction I’m increasingly interested in, both personally and through NextGrid:
Still designing products.
Still building websites.
Just moving deeper into the systems behind them.
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Still can't believe we're writing this.
Huge thanks to every client who trusted us, and to team Contra for building a place where independent creatives can actually grow.
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Engaging website for a New York–based architecture and construction studio, balancing bold typography, immersive imagery and a minimal editorial layout.
The dark framing on the edges is such a clever visual trick! It actually fools the eye and makes the whole presentation look like a 3D physical object. Brilliant depth!