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Product design work, from rebuilding a smart-home app to the research sitting behind a single input field.
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Will iPhone Duo kill React Native?
React Native can match the iOS tab bar only by handing it to UIKit. iPhone Duo shows what that handoff costs, and coding agents have made the native alternative cheaper than it was.
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The “design engineer” role should go beyond front-end
A password checklist leads from user research through frontend architecture, server validation, persistent connections, and the BEAM.
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Screener Copilot
A Chrome extension that turns plain English into a live stock screen: how it works, with structured tool-use and on-device models, and an honest look at where it stops.
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T-Mobile Smart Home
How a bloated smart-home product became an award-winning consumer app: reorienting around everyday “stories”, a skunk-works team, and a full rebuild that won the Red Dot and iF Design awards.