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Notes on practice
Generalised arguments, written from experience without disclosing it. Each follows the same shape — the situation in general terms, the question, the move, what it produced, and what transfers. The last beat is why the page exists.
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2026 · 09A catalogue of faults is half an instrumentCatching a bad argument settles nothing. Arguing better is a short set of moves, and they can be taught2026 · 09Nobody in the room has to be wrongCollective work has failure modes of its own, and more minds do not cancel them2026 · 09A bias is a design briefAwareness is the weakest counter, and the product controls the conditions2026 · 09Ease of use is not ease of learningThe effort that feels like failure is the effort that teaches2026 · 09What design is, and how it gets practised in edtechDesign is a category of decision, not a layer added at the end2026 · 09A principle is not a findingA canon that cannot grade itself is a reading list2026 · 07A design system is not a component libraryComponents scale reuse; principles scale judgement2026 · 06A thinkpiece is a designed objectA writing genre with a job, an audience, and a failure mode2026 · 05Design for translationResearch → principles → tools → changed practice
Three finished notes beat seven half-written ones. More will appear here when they are worth reading, not before.
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