Workshop
Things I've made, systems I've untangled, and patterns I've learned to notice.
I get curious about things. How they work, why they don't, what got lost along the way, and what happens if you look at the problem a little differently. Sometimes that turns into a website. Sometimes it's something else entirely.
On the Bench
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Still noticingIn Progress
Vendor Performance Scorecard
A vendor scorecard is a constitutional rule system for supplier relationships. Buchanan on accountability made visible.
Supply Chain · Google Sheets
Finished Work
Each piece is tagged by the kind of attention it took:
place, continuity, connection, practice, encounter, time, boundaries and uncertainty.
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Attention to Place
Austin Commute Affordability Calculator
A route’s timetable isn’t the same as when the bus actually reaches you.
Transportation · Austin, Texas(opens in a new tab) -
Attention to Practice
Central Texas Food Bank - Warehouse Operations
The physical workflow reveals things the formal system doesn’t.
Nonprofit · Austin, Texas -
Attention to Place
SWPS Experience Recording
A digital system has to make sense in relation to the physical, public space it serves.
Public Media · Austin, Texas -
Attention to Uncertainty
Safety Stock & Reorder Point Calculator
A buffer is a model admitting what it doesn't know.
Supply Chain · Google Sheets -
Attention to Boundaries
ABC Inventory Segmentation Dashboard
Uniform rules feel like rigor, but on an uneven catalog they're just misallocated attention.
Supply Chain · Google Sheets + Looker Studio -
Attention to Connection
The Congressional Hunger Center - Digital Platform Redesign
Information becomes more useful when its relationships are visible.
Nonprofit · Washington, D.C. -
Attention to Encounter
LBJ Liberty & Justice For All Award
An archive isn’t just stored information; it’s an experience of discovery.
Nonprofit · Austin, Texas -
Attention to Time
LBJ Summit on Race in America
Information can become obsolete without becoming false.
Nonprofit · Austin, Texas -
Attention to Practice
Parelli Natural Horsemanship — Audition System
Important knowledge lives in people’s workarounds and accumulated habits.
Education · Pagosa Springs, Colorado -
Attention to Boundaries
Clear CGI Room Configurator
The parts that change and the parts that hold need to be kept apart.
Interior Design · West Yorkshire, United Kingdom -
Attention to Boundaries
MIT Innovation ONE
Systems can keep their own ways of working and still connect.
Higher Education · Cambridge, Massachusetts -
Attention to Continuity
The Ministry of Architecture (formerly Archinia)
Institutional knowledge can outlive the infrastructure holding it.
Architecture · Santa Fe, New Mexico