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Notes from inside the work.

Not a blog. A running record of the decisions, constraints and tradeoffs behind what we ship — written by the people who shipped it.

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Performance

The 400ms rule

01

Every interaction has a budget. We break down how we hold interfaces under 400ms from tap to painted state — and what we cut to get there.

6 min read

Systems

Design systems that survive contact

02

Most systems die in month four. The ones that live are the ones with fewer tokens, stricter naming and a single owner.

8 min read

Mobile

Native feel without native cost

03

Gesture physics, optimistic state and offline first. A teardown of the details that make a cross-platform app read as native.

5 min read

Search

Structure beats volume

04

Why a clean entity graph and honest internal linking outrank a content mill — with the audit checklist we run on every engagement.

7 min read

120+

Products shipped

0.4s

Median interaction

11

Years compounding