Josh Whitehead
Designer who builds AI products end to end, with agents in the loop.
Fifteen years shipping product. First designer to Head of Design twice, both companies acquired. Former Marine Corps combat photographer. Cincinnati, Ohio.
A model grounded on this site answers. Press ⌘K anywhere to jump or ask.
- This week
- SignalScan is live, with AI Mirror grown out of the Portrait build. OLO is in Mac beta, Weaver and StoryMode are up. Mastery is Dead is out in paperback; The Ten is being written.
Building
- OLO — A little presence for the work between windows.olomode.com
- Weaver — Your channel remembers, and it writes.useweaver.app
- StoryMode — Never played it. Still want the story?playstorymode.app
- SignalScan — Know who you're meeting before you walk in.signalscan.app
- A model in your browser — A language model running on your GPU through WebGPU.Live model
- Ask my portfolio — A live Claude, grounded in the real text of this site, that answers questions about my work.Live model
Open source
Writing
- What the builds taught me about models — Six things I now believe about building with language models, each one learned by shipping something on this site and watching it fail first.2026
- Sixteen days in Whitehead City — What happened when I pointed an agent at my own portfolio and asked for a game: eight directions, thirty-six commits, one playable city, and the reasons I shelved it.2026
- Do I still care about this? — How I used my product design skills to build something weird, honest, and fully mine — and in the process, reconnected with why I started designing in the first place.2025