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Thoughts on design, engineering, and the space where they meet — from someone who works at both ends.
- Founding Designer vs. Product Designer: What Actually ChangesThe title difference sounds cosmetic. The job isn't. Notes on what actually changes when you go from a product designer on a team to the founding designer with no team yet.
- A Figma-to-React Workflow That Actually Survives Contact With CodeMost Figma-to-React advice stops at design tokens. Here's the workflow I actually use to take a file from Figma into a shipped React component — including the parts that never make it into the tutorial.
- Design Tokens That Survive Scale (And the Ones That Don't)Most token systems work fine at ten components and fall apart at two hundred. Here's what separates a token system that scales from one that turns into a second design system nobody asked for.
- The Design–Engineering Gap Is a Communication ProblemMost friction between designers and engineers doesn't come from tools or processes — it comes from talking past each other. Here's what I've learned shipping products at both ends of the spectrum.