Tools
Artifacts from my work on cognitive architecture for design. Some are usable right now. Some are still being written up. All of them came from real projects, not thought experiments.
A four-phase pipeline that forces AI to collide your problem with a domain that has nothing to do with it. That collision is where the non-obvious idea lives. Paste a problem, watch it run.
Claude builds, ChatGPT tears it apart, on purpose. Four critic roles, YAML-configured, no shared memory, so neither one can get comfortable.
The CLAUDE.md, the checklist, and nineteen failure modes I've written down because I kept walking into them. This is the review I run on myself.
Three questions I answer before any new screen. What state is the person in before they arrive, and can this interface survive it?
A four-stage pipeline that won't let AI (or me) render until the screen hierarchy is earned, not copied off the last thing that looked like it. No cargo-culting the field order.
Six creative modes, one hard gate. An externalized executive function built around how my ADHD brain actually produces good work.
A Figma plugin that exports your design system as a spec AI coding tools will actually read, instead of guessing. Building it in the open.
Downloadable versions (system prompts, YAML configs, skill files) are rolling out as the articles ship. If you want one specific, email me at stapleycreative@gmail.com.