Scenic designers are already systems designers.

Brandon PT Davis

I understand the problem before I open the code.

I’m a scenic designer and educator who has always been drawn to technology, automation, and better workflows. During graduate school at UC Irvine, even preparing a model for a 3D printer meant repeatedly translating architectural scale into millimeters. It was a tiny frustration—but exactly the kind that follows a designer through an entire career.

The same pattern appears everywhere: research images lose their sources, project archives become folder mazes, portfolios are rebuilt from scratch, and familiar calculations break concentration. AI did not give me that expertise. It lowered the technical barrier between recognizing those problems and building the tools I had been waiting for.

This site documents that work honestly: what is available now, what is still in development, and what I learn as the apps move toward iPhone and macOS.