systematize

your designs, turned into a working system.

a two-week design engineering sprint: your components, rebuilt as a coded, documented, reusable library — faithful to the design and ready for production.

from $10k · two weeks · remote

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who this is for

for designers, studios, and design-led teams whose files are ahead of their codebase: a mature design language with no engineering system behind it, shipped components drifting from the file, or an ai-assisted frontend that multiplied inconsistencies faster than anyone could standardize them.

this is a technical partnership. the design stays yours — i build the system that makes it real.

what you get
tokens
color, type, spacing, and motion extracted from your files and coded — wired to figma variables where the file supports it.
components
a reusable library in your stack, rebuilt faithful to the design: variants, states, accessibility.
playground
a storybook-style environment where every component and state is browsable in the browser.
docs
live usage documentation next to the components — props, variants, do and don't — not a dead pdf.
proof
one real flow assembled from the new system, pixel-faithful to your design.

delivered in your repo with a handoff walkthrough, so your team — or your client's team — can build with it the day after.

what this isn't

no speculative rebrand. no redesigning your product. no abstract component library disconnected from what's shipped. if it isn't designed yet, this isn't the package — that's a prototype or a sprint.

how it works
kickoff
30-minute call. design files, repo access, the flow that matters most.
week 1
audit of the design files and shipped components. tokens coded, foundations and first components in the playground.
week 2
component library completed, documentation written, proof flow assembled on the new system.
end
walkthrough and handoff. the system lives in your repo.
what it costs

from $10,000, fixed, paid up front. two weeks, one project at a time. continuation — more flows, more components, ongoing evolution — can be scoped as a sprint or fractional work.

why me

two decades building for the web at the line between design and engineering. work for modern treasury, vice, amazon, condé nast, pentagram. i've spent a career on the technical side of a designer's file.

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other engagement shapes

frontend build

from $5k/week · 1–3 weeks

finished design in code. one week for a page or flow; three for a sprint.

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prototype

$6–10k · 1–2 weeks

a deployed prototype — interface, core flows, a url.

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fractional design engineering

from $10k/month · two days a week

embedded with your team. two days a week, three if needed. three month minimum.

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