Kurzgedacht: Opinions are features
Most note-taking apps fail because they try to be everything. I built Kurzgedacht with opinions about how notes should work: transient focus, clean attachments, forgiving search.
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(Alles) Paletti: The details you feel
Color tools are everywhere. Most work. Few feel good. (Alles) Paletti is an experiment in SwiftUI animation, haptics, and visual polish on iOS.
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Why some interactions cannot stay in Figma
Figma explains structure, but it struggles with behavior. I prototype on device to understand pacing, resistance, timing, and to save engineering time. For the things you only feel when the app compiled.
Continue readingMicrosoft Todo: Naming shapes the product
The language we use in meetings shapes what we build. Call it a "list," and you get a list. Call it "collaboration," and you might build a system.
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Tempra Ora: Complexity hides in simple tools
I built a stopwatch to understand the constraints of time. It forced trade-offs on precision, trust, and platform limits that most apps ignore.
Continue readingGitHub Mobile: When intuition fails against data
I pushed back on forking repositories on GitHub Mobile. I thought it was too complex. Users proved me wrong, and that changed how I evaluate feature requests.
Continue readingGitHub Mobile: Designing for the "Regular Tuesday": Signal vs. Noise
Notifications are usually noise. We designed a system that reduces that noise without breaking trust. Most of the work was in the edge cases.
Continue readingWunderlist: The "Upgrade": Designing a sunset
Shutting down a beloved product for millions of users is mostly a trust problem. The goal wasn't just simple migration into the new app, it was making sure people felt their data and history were treated with respect.
Continue readingGitHub Mobile: Translating complex workflows to mobile
Code review is heavy work. I worked with engineering to break it into smaller, mobile-first steps without losing the context that makes reviews safe.
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