An open, evolving collection
Toybox
Playbooks, prompts, templates, and prototypes for designers operating strategically inside complex enterprise products. The thinking is systems-first; the artifacts are meant to be borrowed, adapted, and improved. Pull requests welcome.
Looking for copy-friendly prototype source? Browse prototype code.
How to use the Toybox
You don't need to read any of this end-to-end. Each piece is meant to be handed off — to a teammate, or to an AI tool. Here's the shortest path.
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Step 1
Pick the one that matches your moment
Starting something? A prompt or template. Stuck on an interaction? A pattern. Defending a design decision? A playbook. Open it. Skim the summary at the top — that alone often answers the question.
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Step 2
Unlock and copy or download
Drop your email once (it unlocks everything in the Toybox on this device). Then either Copy the whole piece to your clipboard or Download it as a Markdown file. Both buttons sit at the bottom of every entry.
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Step 3
Paste it into your workflow
Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or Figma Make and say "adapt this to my project" — then describe your context. Or paste it into a Notion / Google Doc as a design-review artifact. Or hand it to engineering as a spec. That's the magic; there's nothing else to it.
All pieces are released into the public domain under CC0 1.0 — free for personal, team, client, and commercial use. No attribution required. Each markdown file lists me as author for context, not as a condition of use.
Playbooks
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The Accessibility Compliance Baseline Playbook
The four global primitives every app owes the user, the WCAG row-by-row enforcement matrix, and the merge checklist that catches regressions before they ship. Companion to the Accessibility Annotation Playbook.
accessibilitywcagengineering-handoffcompliance - Playbook
The Sticky View State Playbook
How to make a multi-page app feel like one continuous surface — filters, tabs, scroll position, and selection survive navigation without a global store or a backend.
interaction-designstate-managementnavigationprototyping - Playbook
The Reversible Queue Playbook
How to design a prioritized work queue where every action is reversible, every state is legible, and nothing gets lost — for alerts, recommendations, tickets, leads, anything.
queuesstate-modelsinteraction-designenterprise-ux - Playbook
The Enterprise Reflow Playbook
Take a dense enterprise app from 1440 to 375 in one pass — without horizontal scroll, without a separate mobile codebase, and without the breadcrumb eating the page.
responsive-designlayoutnavigationcss - Playbook
Accessibility Annotation Playbook
What to annotate, when, and how — so designs ship with accessibility built-in, not bolted on at the end.
accessibilitya11yannotationshandoffwcag - Playbook
The Subtraction Playbook
How to remove a feature, ship the removal as the headline, and write up the reasoning so it survives the next reorg. The design move almost nobody documents.
product-strategydecision-designscopingsenior-ic