About Better By Redesign

Experiments in getting everyday life to run a little more like a well-designed system and a little less like a browser with 47 tabs open.

This little character shows up across the project as a reminder that experiments can be playful, not perfect.

What this space is for

Better By Redesign is a running log of small experiments in making life easier to operate. The focus isn’t on becoming a productivity robot; it’s on building tiny systems that quietly remove friction from the background tasks that eat time and attention.

Each experiment starts with an annoying, repeating problem: laundry piles, grocery chaos, scattered notes, overstuffed inboxes, or the feeling that the boring parts of life are running the show. From there, the goal is to design a lighter way of handling it — sometimes with automation, sometimes with simple checklists, and sometimes with “good enough” shortcuts.

What you’ll find here

• Stories of real experiments: what was tried, what broke, and what quietly started working.
• Systems that focus on being maintainable in real life, not just photogenic on a mood board.
• Templates, routines, and small scripts that turn repeat tasks into something closer to autopilot.
• Reflections on the mental load: how it feels when background noise is reduced, even a little.

A few guiding ideas

This project assumes that life is already complicated enough, so any system worth keeping should be:

• Lightweight: easy to start, easy to pause, and easy to pick back up after a messy week.
• Forgiving: designed with the expectation that things will be forgotten, rescheduled, or ignored.
• Stackable: small wins that can layer together over time instead of “fixing everything” at once.

About the person behind the experiments

The human running these experiments is someone who likes systems, dislikes clutter, and lives in the tension between ambitious ideas and very normal chaos. The goal is not to pretend everything is under control, but to document what happens when curiosity, trial-and-error, and a bit of automation are pointed at everyday problems.

If any of this feels familiar — the half-finished planners, the forgotten apps, the recurring sense that things could be smoother — this space is meant to feel like a lab you are welcome to borrow from.

Contact details, personal information, and external links are intentionally kept minimal here. The focus is on the experiments themselves and on ideas you can adapt to your own life.

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