Think first.
AI makes building products easy. Designing the right experience still requires product design craft.
Hi! I'm Michael. I make things. These are my notes on designing + building with AI.
From capture to inference
Why a vault of linked markdown notes and an enterprise knowledge graph are the same shape. And why I built Unicron, a Mac app that turns notes into action items and pushes them through to done.
I built a career coach out of markdown files
A Claude Code-powered second brain that functions as a persistent life and career coach, and tells you what you're avoiding.
How to get your site cited by AI: A GEO field guide
AEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) require different signals than traditional SEO. Here's what I actually did to get konigi.com visible to AI systems and what the limits of that work are.
How to research a company's UX in 30 minutes before your next interview
A repeatable workflow for pulling real UX sentiment about any company's product, turning it into talking points, and walking into the interview as a peer instead of a candidate. Worked example with a real company. Includes a downloadable Claude skill.
Claude Design has the incumbents scrambling
Anthropic shipped Claude Design a month after Google's Stitch 2.0. Everyone's watching Figma. The tools that should actually be nervous are Lovable, Bolt, and everything in that lane.
Terminal-first AI pair programmer. My primary building environment.
↗ KlaritaA design brief and specification builder that walks you through discovery, problem and solution exploration to generate a build-ready spec, step by step.
↗ MotivistMotivist is a goal tracking and motivation app.
↗ UnicronMac-only personal knowledge management app that uses Claude as its engine to organize a plain-markdown vault. Includes daily briefs, task management, a note library, and a graph view.
↗ UX Sentiment ResearchClaude skill that pulls UX sentiment and friction patterns for any product and turns them into interview-ready talking points. Good for design interview prep and competitive analysis.
↗ Vibe Security SkillAn agent skill that audits AI-generated code for common security holes coding assistants introduce, like hardcoded secrets, missing row-level security, and tokens in localStorage. Loads only the checks that fit your stack.
↗A CLI proxy that filters and compresses the output of common dev commands before it reaches an AI coding assistant, cutting LLM token use by 60-90%.
↗ TauriFramework for building small, fast, secure cross-platform apps with any web frontend and a Rust backend. Targets Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS from one codebase.
↗ UnicronMac-only personal knowledge management app that uses Claude as its engine to organize a plain-markdown vault. Includes daily briefs, task management, a note library, and a graph view.
↗ UI Skills for Design EngineersA curated directory of UI skills for design engineers covering accessibility, motion, and frontend craft, with copy-ready install commands.
↗ html.to.designConverts any website into fully editable Figma designs without building each element from scratch.
↗ ImpeccableThe design language that makes your AI harness better at design.
↗Branding Showcase & Interviews
learning CSS-TricksA Website About Making Websites
learning CodropsWeb Design Experiments & Tutorials
agency HORT / Eike KönigBerlin / Techno Culture & Design as Act
Discovery RecentCurated Website Design Gallery
jobs Remote JobsRemote Jobs, Design Filter