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Designing for emotional reality

Author and advisor working at the intersection of technology, intimacy, and power.

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Active Systems

Selected work—real systems, real users, built with emotional precision.

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Rocketch

Order and calm for family law—an AI assistant designed to reduce friction, anxiety, and overload in emotionally sensitive journeys.

Active product · Founder & designer

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ven.plus

A live operational directory reducing uncertainty around Venezuela through contextual, date-aware intelligence.

Context infrastructure · Founder

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SeductHub

An AI-powered commerce and creator platform exploring emotional UX, intimacy, and trust in adult wellness.

Ongoing lab · Founder

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TabooTemp

An experimental AI role-play and companion platform exploring desire, power, secrecy, and consent through narrative-driven intimacy.

Experimental platform · Founder

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The Intimacy Code

A book for those who still believe technology can feel. It explores the space between our devices—where attention becomes touch and language becomes a design decision.

Not self-help—an act of remembering that feeling deeply is a form of intelligence. Part manifesto, part field guide, written for the ones who want warmth without noise.

You’ll get
a new vocabulary
You’ll notice
attention patterns
You’ll leave with
gentle clarity

Best for readers, product teams, and creators working in sensitive spaces—where tone, trust, and desire are part of the UX.

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Experiences

I help teams and creators translate desire into design—quiet, precise, unforgettable. Choose an experience, or invite me to craft one for your world.

Best fit for product teams, founders, creators, and communities building in sensitive spaces (where tone, trust, and language matter).

What teams leave with
Clarity
a shared language for tone, consent, and trust
Tools
rituals + templates your team can reuse immediately
Momentum
a sharper narrative and a cleaner emotional UX roadmap

Workshops — Emotional Technology

3–6 hours · team immersion
  • Design rituals that increase felt presence in products
  • Build “soft UX” patterns for intimacy & consent
  • Translate desire into ethical, testable interfaces
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Keynotes — The Intimacy Code

30–60 min · thought-provocation
  • Why touch is the new metric
  • AI companions & the future of belonging
  • Soft rebellion: designing for tenderness
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Consulting — Private Lab

Advisory sprints · 2–8 weeks
  • Audit of product language & emotional UX
  • Positioning, story architecture, voice systems
  • Prototype reviews with live narrative edits
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Not sure which format fits? Tell me about your team, your product, and the feeling you want your users to remember.

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Journal

Field notes on intimacy, design, and the quiet revolutions between them.

Short essays that translate emotion into design language—without turning life into optimization.

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Intimacy & Presence
attention, feeling, tenderness
Emotional UX
trust, consent, tone
AI & Belonging
companionship, ethics, interfaces