A few things I believe, written down so you can disagree.

Design is the act of making decisions easier for someone else. Every screen is a small kindness or a small inconvenience; very little of it is neutral. I try to err on the side of kindness, and to be specific about who I am being kind to.

Accessibility is not a feature — it's a posture. Designing for the edge of human experience tends to produce work that is better at the center, too. The ramp in front of the building helps the cane-user, the parent with the stroller, and the kid with the skateboard. Universal design is just thoughtful design, told from a different angle.

Restraint is the floor, not the ceiling. There is room — always — for one detail that surprises the reader. A drop cap. A footnote that opens like a door. A weight axis that swings on hover. The whole point is to feel a little more awake afterward.

And distance from the ship kills good design. I've built the ring, the glove, the glasses, and the little sites they'd live on — not because I love writing code, but because a real thing in someone's hand tells you the truth faster than any Figma file. I'll take shipped & honest over polished & hypothetical, every time.