Hi! 👋
I'm John-Henry
but most people call me JH.
I'm a Product and Engineering leader. Most recently I led Product, Design, and Engineering at Skedda. Prior to that, I was the first Product hire at User Interviews (acquired Jan 2026), responsible for Product and Design. At the moment I'm advising early stage teams, going down the AI rabbit hole on my own projects, and chasing my 3 kids around while I consider my next long term role. More about me →
Some things I've written, said, or made
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project
leaforster.com ⬀
A site for my wife's private therapy practice. Built in an hour with Claude Code – would have taken me two days not long ago.
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game
A flying game I built with my 6-year-old ⬀
My son Buckley designed the gameplay and levels. I (read Claude Code) wrote the code. Works on desktop, plays best with a Bluetooth controller.
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talk
User Research Trends: What's Changed and What Hasn't ⬀
Panel discussion hosted by NN/g on how user research practices are evolving – what's actually changed and what's just rebranded.
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writing
The Research Hub Story ⬀
How we built v1 of Research Hub – a 0→1 product launch at User Interviews to help researchers coordinate work with their own users.
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video
What it's like to work on Product at User Interviews ⬀
Candid interviews with my team at User Interviews about what they loved about the team – originally a recruiting tool, now a fun time capsule.
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writing
How to create good product outcomes ⬀
Lessons on writing the kind of outcomes product teams can actually own – avoid overly broad goals, one outcome per team, keep the metric simple.
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podcast
Awkward Silences ⬀
Co-created and co-hosted 134 episodes of the leading podcast on UX research – featuring great thinkers in the space, with 500k+ downloads.
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writing
Product Manager? What is that? ⬀
An attempt to articulate what a PM actually needs to do – make good decisions, keep the team moving, and keep the team motivated.
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project
jQuery sketchpad ⬀
A sketchpad I built while teaching myself to code. Felt like climbing a mountain then – would be a one-prompt afternoon today.
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project
Setting up AirSonos on a Raspberry Pi ⬀
Hacked a Raspberry Pi to AirPlay to Sonos speakers years before Sonos supported it natively. Taught me a lot about the command line, which comes in handy these days.