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Designer who builds. Builder who designs.

DESIGNTHATSHIPS 

25 years of shipped product, from the Kindle in your hand to the trucks on the road. Now I pair with AI agents to take a design from Figma to a working Next.js front-end and the MySQL behind it, fast.

“The rarest of designer leaders. A force multiplier.”

Rob Christensen — Product Leader, AI + Devices. Worked with Dion at Amazon & Samsung
SAMSUNG/AMAZON/BOSE/INTUIT/ELECTRONIC ARTS/ROMEO POWER/BATTLE MOTORS/
Tempo · Run · Golf · Ride / iOS + Android

Tempo Tunes

My app builds playlists that match your pace. Set a tempo yourself, or let it work one out. Run turns a distance and a goal time into your stride. Golf times your swing so impact lands on the beat. Ride reads a bike ride you recorded and changes tempo where the trail does. Every playlist pulls from an owned database of 2.1+ million verified-BPM tracks, growing every minute. Free, and live in both stores right now.

2.1M+verified tracks4ways in90+genres
Read the case study →
Tempo Tunes app screens: a Bell tempo curve on the Tempo, Run, Golf, Ride switch, a mountain bike ride drawn as tempo, the shelf of playlists
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Shipping product at scale

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Production case studies, live now

F500

Samsung · Amazon · Bose · Intuit

Selected Work / Live in production

The Work.

Six production case studies, all live right now. The full stories, specs, and the 3D shop are one tap away.

Services / How we engage

Designer who builds.
Builder who designs.

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UI/UX Design

Design systems, interaction design, and motion, documented all the way through handoff. I start from first principles and the work holds up when other people have to build on it.

  • →Design systems & tokens
  • →Interaction & motion design
  • →Figma → dev handoff specs
  • →Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)

UI Design (37) · Interaction (31) · UX (31) · Visual (16)

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Front-End Engineering

Fast, instrumented front-ends in Next.js or React, with motion built in as a system from day one. I treat Lighthouse 95+ as the floor.

  • →Next.js / React build
  • →Framer Motion + scroll choreography
  • →Performance budgets & Core Web Vitals
  • →Component libraries

Shipped React/TS at Battle Motors, Fortris, EA

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Front-End + Live Data

I build fast front-ends and the live data they run on. battlemotors.com is mine front to back: the React UI and the MySQL behind truck inventory and dealers, built with agentic AI. When a project needs the data layer, I can build that too.

  • →MySQL-backed sites
  • →Live inventory & dealer data
  • →Admin & dealer dashboards
  • →API integration

battlemotors.com front-end + MySQL, built with agentic AI

About / The operator

25 years of
shipped product.

I currently lead design at Battle Motors. Before that: Samsung, Amazon Lab126 on the Kindle, Bose, Intuit, and Romeo Power. I've owned the product story, the design system, and the front-end, wired to the live data and APIs behind it.

UI Design37Interaction31UX Design31Visual16Motion12Art Direction11Research10Front-end9MySQL7Typography8