Play Testing

Side-projects where I stress-test AI models for art, music & micro-apps, show off new paintings and other general nonsense that's not "professional."

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Why I Built Systim: A Smarter Way to Explore My UX Design Leadership Work

Systim is a custom ChatGPT agent I created to help people explore my UX leadership experience in a smarter, more contextual way. It lets hiring managers, product leaders, and collaborators ask real questions — about projects, strategy, or challenges — and responds with insights drawn directly from my career in healthcare, telecom, SaaS, and more.

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No Amount of AI Slop Is Worth the Energy to Make It

My personal take on the tension between AI’s environmental cost and its creative potential — sparked by a real conversation with my daughter daughter. Thoughtful, candid, and grounded in practical design experience.

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AI in UX: Teaching the Next Generation of Designers at UW

AI isn’t a shortcut — it’s a multiplier. In my UW lecture, I showed how AI reshapes UX research and design, cutting overhead, deepening insights, and helping the next generation of designers think bigger and move faster.

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UX Pilot: AI as a Creative and Strategic Partner in UX

UX Pilot is a custom AI partner that pushes design thinking beyond templates. It accelerates ideation and research—turning raw data into insights and helping teams reach clarity and impact faster.

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String Theories: Human Heart, Algorithmic Mind

String Theories shows how AI fuels creativity through rapid iteration. Using tools like Suno.com, I turned late-night experiments into a music collection—proving that AI expands artistic possibility, rather than replacing it.

String Theories: Human Heart, Algorithmic Mind

Designing a Cohesive Artist System (That Still Lets You Shape-shift)

"If you write across multiple moods — or under multiple aliases — your catalog can feel scattered. We just built a compact system that keeps two distinct personas aligned under a single, cinematic thread…"

Designing a Cohesive Artist System (That Still Lets You Shape-shift)

Designing Sound with AI: The Art of Music Prompting

I’ve been experimenting with how to turn musical influences into AI-ready prompts. Instead of just naming bands or albums, I break down the sound — the instruments, rhythms, textures, and moods — and translate them into short, vivid descriptions. The result is part producer’s note, part poem: clear enough for the AI to follow, but still human and evocative. This is where I share those experiments and test how far the prompts can go.

I’ve been experimenting with how to turn musical influences into AI-ready prompts. Instead of just naming bands or albums, I break down the sound — the instruments, rhythms, textures, and moods — and translate them into short, vivid descriptions. The result is part producer’s note, part poem: clear enough for the AI to follow, but still human and evocative. This is where I share those experiments and test how far the prompts can go.

Using AI for music, images, video and creative inspiration

Every song paints pictures in the mind— and to accompany the new song A New Kind of Feeling, I wanted those pictures to move and embody the spirit and sense of the song. Not just a static album cover, not just abstract footage. I wanted the visuals to grow and shift with the music, breathing in sync with the lyrics.

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New AI-Co-Produced Music and Video Honoring Past Artists

Allen Ginsberg, the incredible Beat poet of the 1950s - 1990s had mentioned that he found the Romantic poet William Blake a muse and inspiration. This new song, "Ginsberg Talked To Blake" uses this theme as an analog for my long-time friendship with poet and writer, J.C. Coyle, based in Los Angeles, CA. His poetry and writing has always been a personal inspiration for me, and a great metaphor for my relationship with J.C.

Using Suno.ai, ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Krea.ai, Midjourney.com, Adobe Premiere and Garageband, I created this new music and accompanying video. Enjoy.

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Building Systim.ai: Human-inspired, AI-generated stuff

It started with an experiment: Could AI tools be used to create artwork that feels both beautifully crafted and genuinely unique? The answer, it turns out, is yes — and the Systim Etsy shop was born from that curiosity.

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