Tony Merriweather

Hello

I work across product, design and systems to make complex experiences feel simple and human.

Apple

Kaiser Permanente

KIPP Foundation

Kira

Lazarus AI

Microsoft

+ more

Apple

Kaiser Permanente

KIPP Foundation

Kira

Lazarus AI

Microsoft

+ more

Tony Merriweather

Work

iOS 16

Onboarding experience for iOS 16 making iPhone setup faster and more user friendly.

(Locked) Rikai

An interactive environment designed to showcase, test and demo, RikAI, a multimodal large language model built for accurate document understanding and multimodal reasoning.

(Locked) Kira 2.0

An AI powered learning platform that helps teachers create lessons and helps students learn through interactive tools inside a single classroom system.

Lab

Musium 1.0

An interactive music exploration platform where you start with any song and discover related tracks through connected recommendations.

Constell 1.0 (In Progress)

An upcoming visual workspace for organizing ideas, notes and references where connections between them form a living, navigable constellation.

Apple Life

A concept build that brings shared moments across Apple apps like Photos, Music and Fitness into one unified, everyday experience.

Thoughts

Be Intentionally Human

Technology makes communication easier.
But it also makes it thinner.

Send the voice note.
Write the real message.
Leave the human trace.

A quick reaction is efficient.

But a thoughtful response is meaningful.

The future will be filled with automation.

Which means the small acts of humanity will matter even more.

Authencity is Expensive

Most people say they want originality.

But the world around us rewards imitation.

Copying is safer.

It helps you belong.

It avoids friction.

Authenticity does the opposite.

It risks silence.

Misunderstanding.

Sometimes rejection.

But over time, something strange happens.

The only voices people remember are the ones that refused to sound like everyone else.

Utility Beats Beauty

Designers love beauty.

Users love usefulness.

There’s a difference.

Many beautifully designed products fail.

Meanwhile, rough tools
terminal interfaces
command lines
spread everywhere overnight.

Why?

Because they just work.

Good design is alignment between the tool and the task people are already trying to complete.

Utility spreads.
Beauty follows later.

AI Should Live Inside Workflows

Most AI products begin with the model,

That’s backwards.

People do not wake up wanting to use AI.
They wake up wanting to finish something.

Write the email.
Ship the code.
Review the document.

The best AI tools do not ask you to leave your workflow.

They quietly sit inside it.

Intelligence shouldn't feel like a destination you travel to but a natural extension of the work.

Don't Outsource Thinking

AI can generate answers quickly.
But speed is not the same thing as understanding.

If we only prompt machines and stop wrestling with ideas ourselves,

something important disappears.

The tool becomes smarter.
The human becomes passive.

AI should amplify thinking,

not replace it for you.

Control What You Can

Some people spend most of their time studying things they cannot influence.

Politics.
Conspiracies.
Other people.

Awareness is healthy
but obsession is not.

This is the trap lots of folks fall into.

They understand the world deeply
but control almost none of the things they think about.

Pay attention to the world.

But spend your energy where your actions actually matter.

Explorations

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