The Design Office of Nick Sloggett
Do good work with good people.
Product designer since 2007 at Apple, Google, Uber and Rippling. Currently helping the trades industry apply AI.
Google Android
A smart display and a tablet, made into one Android device.
Rippling AI
An AI that can change a paycheck, and shows the change first.
Abbott Patient Controller
Your therapy’s range on screen: the limit shows before you reach it.
Uber Experimentation
Every launch at Uber, measured, and one step from undone.
Delta
A flight attendant’s day, in order.
Uber Studio
The whole marketplace, simulated from an engineer’s desk.
Scan anything
Ask any label. The answer marks the lines it came from.
Standing questions
An empty chat that shows your answers instead of suggesting prompts.
Pull over an agent
Pull the grabber on the edge and the agent lands where you type.
The trade in the island
A level alert you can trade from, in the Dynamic Island.
Call the desk
A call that writes the trip while you talk.
Broader roles need a sharper bar
When roles get broader, the standard has to get explicit.
The reader that can’t ask
The taste you didn’t write down, the agent won’t have.
A new surface inherits the rules
Which promises live in the chat window, and which in the platform?
The hardware didn’t last
The device is the part people photograph.
Design systems at scale
What a design system can enforce, and what it can only influence.
Time sovereignty
My calendar, designed like a product.
The default designer now builds
The mockup was always a workaround.
Taste is the bottleneck
When production is free, judgment is the scarce input.
Org design is product design now
The constraint moved into the org chart.
AI needs receipts
Correct isn’t enough. People need to see why.
Busy software should breathe
Dense screens need rhythm, not padding.
Systems before screens
The best interaction work starts with rules and thresholds.
Designing for operators
What changes when your user is accountable for the outcome.
Legibility is not a setting
A visual language is a promise about reading.
A vibe is a prototype
Designers can build now. The risk is shipping the vibe.
The mandate memo
A mandate measures usage. Leaders have to measure judgment.
Founder mode, for design leaders
Be in the details. Don’t become the bottleneck.
Generated UI comes back as the average
Ask a model for a weather app and you get the weather app.
A new paradigm still has to tell the time
New interfaces are judged on the oldest jobs.
Design-led is about who decides
Design-led means design makes the call, whatever the titles say.
Efficiency came for the middle
The cuts found the work that couldn’t show what it changed.