ACCESSIBILITY • AI • UX • EDUCATION • STORYTELLING

I design accessible systems for people navigating complex information.

I’m Jay — an accessibility and UX specialist with a background in education, disability inclusion, and AI evaluation. I help make digital products, learning tools, and creative systems clearer, more usable, and more equitable.

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UX systems for access, mobility, and daily life

Fiction, illustration, and small worlds

OPEN NOTEBOOK

New talks, essays, drawings, prototypes, and strange little drafts in progress.

Work, studies, fragments

A studio practice across access, AI, interfaces, teaching, illustration, and fiction.

ACCESSIBILITY / UX

Designing for the messy middle of access.

Research, interface decisions, and design-system details for products that need to work in real bodies, real contexts, and real constraints.

AI / PRODUCT

Tools should say what they know — and what they don’t.

I shape AI interfaces around judgment, handoff, uncertainty, and repair. The goal is not magic. It is trust you can inspect.

Interface notes, model limits, consent moments, and product language.

Illustration and fiction project artwork

TEACHING / ILLUSTRATION / FICTION

Work gets better when it leaves room for people.

Workshops, critiques, essays, tiny stories, and drawings — all ways of making complicated things easier to hold.

WRITING / BOOKS / NOTES

Words for the work, and worlds outside it.

SPEAKING

Talks and workshops on access, AI, critique, and making better decisions with imperfect information.

Essay

Accessibility is a design material

A short argument for treating access like structure, not polish.

Talk

AI needs better seams

Where the interface should slow down, explain itself, or hand the wheel back.

Fiction

Tiny stories about power, memory, and machines

Small speculative pieces that let the serious work breathe a little.

STUDIO NOTE

Quiet rigor. A little mischief. No theater.

I came to design through access work, teaching, and a long curiosity about how people make sense of tools. That history keeps the work grounded.

Some days I’m mapping a product’s accessibility debt. Some days I’m sketching a character, shaping a workshop, or arguing with a sentence until it behaves.

Access before applause

Systems with texture

AI that earns attention

Stories as research

CONTACT

Bring me something thorny, useful, strange, or worth making kinder.

For product direction, accessibility work, talks, workshops, illustration, and writing projects.

j.sykes.iness@gmail.com