I've spent years designing products used by millions. Most recently — agents and AI experiences at a large telecom — right as the AI era was arriving.
From inside that moment, I kept noticing the same thing. AI is still hard to use. In many places. In small ways and big ones. The smarter the model gets, the more visible the gap becomes.
That bothered me — not as a complaint, as a question I couldn't put down. What can a designer contribute toward a future that's almost here? I can't solve everything. But one piece — that, I can try.
So I started. From this moment — May 2026 — toward the slightly-near future. I'm a designer; designing the future is the work.
Context Grammar is what came out. Eight tokens that give AI a structured way to understand not just what someone said, but who they are when they said it. Some — physical state, social exposure, form factor — phones and smart devices can sense today. Some — cognitive load, what's really at stake — they can't, yet. I want to be honest about that.
But the future these tokens point toward — AI that fits the way people actually live, where humans can trust AI and AI can earn that trust — I believe in it. And I want to contribute one piece toward it.
This is my best attempt, so far.