David Demaree

Founder, Principal Design Engineer, and Lapsed Product Manager

I build web experiences & systems at Bits&Letters, the boutique digital agency I founded in 2024. Before B&L, for about a decade I led design-centric product teams at big companies including Google, Adobe, and Stripe, and before that I built websites and apps at agencies and in-house.

I’m a published author, international speaker, and TechCrunch once credited me with inventing the phrase “cognitive overhead.”

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Latest additions to my blog

  • Bazzite is the Linux You Should Use

    This post is for anyone who, like me, is curious about the whole Linux thing — especially the whole Linux-on-a-Framework-Laptop thing that’s in vogue among programmers — but don’t know where to start, and don’t know your Fedoras from your Arches. This is not meant to be a blanket statement about which Linux distro is…

  • Okay Doomer

    Okay Doomer

    What If… the last few years of the MCU had been heading toward Robert Downey, Jr. coming back all along, and it all didn’t feel so thirsty?