Uxtopian

Human + Thinking + AI
× Design

Fifteen years of design leadership at enterprises, upstarts, startups and agencies. Building the orgs that turn craft into compounding revenue. AI products that sharpen the user's POV.

PeopleThe meaning problem nobody's building for
BusinessWhere the tools are needed
ProcessWhat I'm building to fill the gap

Meta · Mailchimp · IBM · Kustomer · Gladly

Ideas

June 9, 2026

So you want to be a builder, eh?

Teams that already have a shared language get the velocity AI promises. Teams that run on handoffs usually don't. Shared language has to come before shared action. Skip it and AI just makes the old confusion faster.

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“He didn’t just make things look better — he changed how the team thought about the problem.”

DD

David Drucker

Founding Engineer, Kustomer

The tools are early. The thinking isn't.

Building AI tools for the human side of work — looking for partners, collaborators, and organizations that take this problem seriously.

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