Catherine

Back in February, I prototyped this feature and other novel ones like visual representations of trains of thought, a multipane chat interface, and an infinite canvas chat. I wrote about my process and the history of these interfaces here: catherinedavodi.com/branch-chat-wr…!

We had an incredible April at Harvey. - Net new ARR is up 6x YoY - We’re about to break 50% DAU/MAU - Our average user now spends 12 hours a month using Harvey Job's not finished.

@conconconling @neo cowork-maxxing @0xaadilm

sunday @neo

Excited to share what I've been working on! I designed and led Harvey's new document drafting agent from zero to GA. It now powers docx editing across all Harvey's products. Grateful to work with awesome teammates across our Embedded Experience and Assistant teams!

@0xaadilm This is amazing!

full thoughts here! catherinedavodi.com/language-effic…

Language has long served as the primary interface for human communication, but it is not a transparent pipeline for meaning. It is a lossy, leaky conduit that compresses rich cognitive states into narrow symbolic forms. And the failure starts earlier than we think. The leaky conduit, it turns out, leaks in both directions: before the thought leaves your mind, and again before it reaches someone else's. Most times, there is no "pristine" idea that exists before the act of speaking. Language is not just a delivery mechanism, it is an active tool that refines and shapes the partially-formed idea as we express it. So we aren't just losing meaning in transmission. We're also constrained in how clearly we can form the thought in the first place. And now we are constrained by how efficiently to prompt our AI’s. A critical question designers and researchers must understand isn't how to bypass language. It's how to design interfaces that help us use it more fully.

@0AnthonyTafoya0 😎🌊

@0catd This post really flows

ripples in water!

@jocelynjshen Wow this is awesome and so interesting!! Congratulations!

Excited to share our #CHI2026 paper “Texterial: A Text-as-Material Interaction Paradigm for LLM-Mediated Writing” (done during internship at Microsoft Research) We imagine interacting with LLMs by treating text as a material like plants/clay. 📃arxiv.org/pdf/2603.00452 🧵[1/n]

@Flomerboy @nateparrott Love this series! Design has increasingly become about figuring out the best way to communicate your thoughts to a model. The participatory design point also really resonated. Understanding user psychology & how models are built matters more than ever. Excited for the next post!

AI Design Field Guide Interview #2 - @nateparrott !! Includes some 🌶️ like "there's no way that people are actually going to be designing software in the future in a tool like Figma"

I referenced @floguo when discussing the need for interfaces that move beyond text to overcome the limits of language.

Read it here: catherinedavodi.com/language-effic…

The way we think has already been shaped by strangers' design decisions. I wrote about how chat interfaces are the new 'water we swim in,' hiding how meaning gets lost every time we compress a thought into a text box. We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us. Read below👇

read it here! catherinedavodi.com/layered-ai-wri…

New design experiment I made for a layered ai chat interface! The current "wall-of-text" output makes information hard to process, so I built an interface that layers responses into collapsible sections. Read the full blog post on my site.

@ycombinator @gru_space Go Skyler! 🌌☄️

🌕 @gru_space is building durable space habitats so humans can one day live on the Moon and Mars. Its first missions will mine lunar regolith to construct a long-term pressurized habitat on the Moon for commercial space tourism — a hotel on the Moon. Congrats on the launch @skyler_chan_! ycombinator.com/launches/P9g-g…

@skyler_chan_ @ycombinator Congrats!!

Day 1 of @ycombinator W26

@SoamDesai @Bungmint_ @LilJeffR @CalHacks cool stuff!

@0xaadilm Thanks!

@0catd Awesome blog post!

Back in February, I prototyped this feature and other novel ones like visual representations of trains of thought, a multipane chat interface, and an infinite canvas chat. I wrote about my process and the history of these interfaces here: catherinedavodi.com/branch-chat-wr…!