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Essays, tips, and tutorials on design engineering, React, and building great products.
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Outcome Engineering: The Discipline of Building What Actually Matters
Most engineers build features. Outcome engineers build results. The distinction sounds small but changes everything about how you approach a problem.
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What Building My Portfolio Taught Me About Product Thinking
A portfolio is just a product with one user. Here's what building mine taught me about design decisions, scope, and shipping things that aren't perfect.
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Animation That Works: Making Interfaces Feel Alive
Most UI animation is decoration. The best animation is communication. Here's how I think about motion in product interfaces and what separates good animation from noise.
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The Design Engineer's Toolkit: Tools I Actually Use
A honest look at the tools, libraries, and workflows that make up my daily design engineering practice — what works, what doesn't, and why.
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From Figma to Code: How I Close the Design–Engineering Gap
The handoff between design and engineering is where quality goes to die. Here's the workflow I use to keep intent intact from the first frame to the final commit.
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What Building Mobile Apps Taught Me About Constraints
Mobile development forces decisions that web development lets you defer. Working under those constraints changed how I approach every product I build.
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