Journal

Field writing, not recap posts

Short essays from the studio. Each one is meant to change how you read a funnel the next morning, not to pad a content calendar.

Person using a smartphone for a digital transaction

Where Thai fintech apps lose users between OTP and first transfer

The drop is often logged as “abandoned onboarding.” The clock, the SMS rail, and the second device tell a different story.

12 March 2026 · 9 min

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Team meeting with laptops open

A drop-off is not a delayed conversion

PromptPay, bank approval, and payday cycles make “lost” look permanent when it is only slow. How to report the difference without sounding defensive.

2 February 2026 · 7 min

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Laptop on a desk in a working studio

Reading heatmaps without inventing intent

Hot zones are not motives. A sampling rule that keeps replay and heatmap work from becoming folklore.

18 December 2025 · 8 min

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Hands planning on paper next to a laptop

An event dictionary that survives a redesign

Visual systems move. Names should not. A contract you can hand to design and engineering before the next release train.

9 November 2025 · 10 min

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