Why I'm Starting This Blog
Writing to learn — why I'm publishing my course notes and personal thoughts in public.
I’ve been going through Eric Kennedy’s Learn UI Design course for a few weeks now. It’s excellent. Dense with ideas, tightly reasoned, full of frameworks.
The problem is that video knowledge evaporates.
I can watch a lesson, understand it completely in the moment, and then sit down to design something three days later and find the insight has gone fuzzy. This is completely normal — it’s how memory works. You need to retrieve and use knowledge to make it stick.
Writing notes forces that retrieval. Turning a 40-minute lesson into structured Markdown makes me grapple with which ideas were actually central, what the structure was, and how the pieces fit together. It’s slower. It’s more effortful. That’s the point.
Publishing them publicly adds another layer: I have to be clear enough that a stranger could follow. That standard is higher than “I understand this,” and it’s closer to “I can teach this.”
So this blog has two sections:
Notes — structured course notes from courses I’m taking. Currently: Learn UI Design. Written in my own words, with the instructor’s key quotes preserved where the phrasing matters.
Thoughts — personal essays. Whatever I’m thinking about at the intersection of design, development, and learning.
Both are for me. But maybe they’ll be useful to you too.