I'm most interested in giving names to things that we see, but that don't acknowledge as belonging to any one person. I've been writing about Consequence Design for nearly a decade.
Most of my work has lived in this middleware for decades. From building large-scale sites from the ground up, working on migration, leading teams & bringing people together, I'm the person you call to make technology legible and understandable, without sacrificing technical depth or legibility. Most of my work sits somewhere between information architecture, service design, and front-end development. I find the idea that designers can't care about strategy revolting, and spend a lot of my time trying to amplify the ways that we can be involved in reimagining tech.
I like staying busy.
You can find me writing, building tools, and occasionally hosting events that sit between critical tech, civic life, and culture.
- 🏙️ Started Portland Digital Corps, taking local technologists & building things in a short-term sprint format
- Organized Design For The Public 24, a two-day conference for people who care about building for others
- 🎳 Built a session-based skeeball rating system: skeeboard.com
- 🏛️ Spent 7 years with the 18F team, helping transform federal digital services
- 🧩 Contributing to the Agent Experience thinking about how to shape the way AI agents will engage with the world around them
- 🌍 find.ronbronson.com – my everything page
- 🌀 Bluesky – where I think out loud
- 📚 Literal – what I’m reading
- 💽 Record Club – what I’m listening to (on vinyl)