Oct 12, 2025
Featured essaySoft UX: Designing for Presence
Rituals, consent patterns, and gentle friction that teach interfaces to feel.
Best read slowly, with coffee and quiet.
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The intimacy lab—where design learns to feel
I teach the art of emotional technology—uniting touch, psychology, and beautiful systems. For readers of The Intimacy Code, curious teams, and brands brave enough to whisper.
Minimalism. Warmth. Precision. Come closer.
Diego Sarmiento
Writer and product engineer exploring how technology shapes attention, intimacy, and the way we feel. Born in Venezuela, shaped across five countries, now based on Florida’s northeast coast.
I work with teams and founders on emotional UX: the craft of designing systems that build trust, communicate consent, and make people feel safe, seen, and understood—without turning life into optimization.
Through The Intimacy Code and the workshops it inspired, I teach practical rituals for kinder interfaces: language that lands, friction that protects, and design decisions that respect the nervous system.
Most ideas start barefoot—coffee, notebook, and the Atlantic breathing in the background.
Built products
Selected work—real systems, real users, built with emotional precision.
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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SeductHub
An AI-powered commerce and creator platform exploring emotional UX, intimacy, and trust in adult wellness.
Ongoing lab · 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.
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.
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.
Intimacy & Presence
attention, feeling, tenderness
Emotional UX
trust, consent, tone
AI & Belonging
companionship, ethics, interfaces
Sep 28, 2025
Companions & the Future of Belonging
Real loneliness, artificial lovers, and why intimacy metrics will outlast DAUs.
Best read late at night, when questions linger.
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Aug 30, 2025
Language That Touches
Voice systems and the craft of words that stay on the skin.
Best read aloud—or whispered, if you dare.
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Soft Heat Sessions
Short audiovisual rituals exploring presence, intimacy, and emotional design. Made to be listened to slowly—early mornings, late nights, or in between.
Best moments
early morning, late night
Tone
minimal, warm, precise
Focus
presence + emotional design
No algorithms. No urgency. Just atmosphere.
Selected sessions
A quiet series for nervous systems & product minds.
Think of these as small rooms: light, voice, pacing, and a sentence that lands. New pieces arrive when they’re ready.
Shorts40-min sessionsWhispers + text
Morning Reset
8–12 min • breath + attention
A gentle entry back into the body—before the day gets loud.
Late Night Decompression
10–15 min • softness + release
For the hour when the nervous system finally admits it’s tired.
Design That Listens
6–9 min • emotional UX
How small interface choices can hold (or bruise) the user.