<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Flora May dela Cruz — Writing</title><description>Notes from Flora May dela Cruz on product design, AI, accessibility, and refusing to ship things.</description><link>https://www.floramaydc.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Three Labels, Six Surfaces</title><link>https://www.floramaydc.com/writing/three-labels-six-surfaces/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.floramaydc.com/writing/three-labels-six-surfaces/</guid><description>The smallest interaction rule I have, and the one I find myself repeating in every bulk-action review.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>interaction-design</category><category>patterns</category><category>bulk-actions</category></item><item><title>The Feature I Keep Refusing to Ship</title><link>https://www.floramaydc.com/writing/the-feature-i-keep-refusing-to-ship/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.floramaydc.com/writing/the-feature-i-keep-refusing-to-ship/</guid><description>A note on subtraction — why I write up the features a product pointedly does not have, and why the next reorg is the reason.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>product-strategy</category><category>decision-design</category><category>senior-ic</category></item><item><title>Notes from the Reversible Queue</title><link>https://www.floramaydc.com/writing/notes-from-the-reversible-queue/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.floramaydc.com/writing/notes-from-the-reversible-queue/</guid><description>Why I keep writing the same state machine into every enterprise product, and why Undo is the feature I argue hardest to keep.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>queues</category><category>state-models</category><category>interaction-design</category></item><item><title>Hello, Toybox</title><link>https://www.floramaydc.com/writing/hello-toybox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.floramaydc.com/writing/hello-toybox/</guid><description>Why I&apos;m building a Toybox in public — and what I hope it becomes.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>meta</category><category>toybox</category></item></channel></rss>