Field Notes

The thinking
under the design.

Most design writing shows you the finished thing. These are the other half — the questions I ask before the first pixel, the moments where the real decision actually happens. The questions are the work. So this is where I show them.

No. 01 Color

Colors don’t mean anything alone.

Someone asks me to react to a color — a name, a hex, a single swatch — and I genuinely can’t. Not because I’m being difficult. Because the question is missing the only thing that makes a color mean anything.

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No. 02 Working Together

Don’t hand the inner critic a microphone.

A client brings you something they made — photos, words, a logo — and quietly braces for you to confirm what they already fear. The caring question makes it worse. Here’s the question I ask instead.

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New notes land when a moment is worth keeping. If one of these made you feel something about your own brand — come say hello. The conversation is my favorite part. 💜