Creating experiences through engineering, design, product, & branding.
Always curious and always a student. An idealist and loyal to my intuition (for better or worse), but always playing within the bounds of what is practical. Designing to remove (uneeded) friction from the world and making space for joy where it's needed.
Inspired by great and beautiful things; and currently in the pursuit of it. Right now committed to creating things I wish existed.
When I’m not hunched over a screen, I’m biking, hooping (go Celtics!), taking siestas, and eating siopao.
Bringing Technology from Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) to Life
In the movie, Joaquin Phoenix works for a company that writes letters on behalf of customers. He uses software that creates letters upon dictation, where each stroke of each word's letter is rendered real-time like with an invisible human hand. This is my best attempt in replicating that.
It is based off of this repo, an implementation of Alex Graves' "Generating Sequences with Recurrent Neural Networks." The local model accepts text, embeds it, and then samples the next generated pen movement via an MDN to build a coordinate path, which is then converted into SVG strokes on the page.
The app is fully local, built with Svelte, Typescript, and SCSS.
Re-Imagining What Language Learning Software Should Be
The state of language learning software today sucks. From dopamine slop machines built for shareholders that is more akin to video games than for education, to boring, out-dated apps. So, I built my own.
Tracking Literally Anything
I just needed a way to track improvement and PRs from workouts and runs. Apps dedicated for running and workouts were simply too heavy and bloated for this. So I used Notion, Google Sheets, but the friction was too much. So I built LogKit, an all-in-one counter, tally tracker that works with every unit of measurement.
This was the first app I published to the app store. It was a lot of work but very exciting, introducing me into uncharted territory like marketing, business, branding, graphic design, and a deeper understanding of user psychology in digital spaces.
Aligning to Health & Fitness
Utility app branded to be a health & fitness app, aligning with established giants like Strava & NRC. Bright lime gradient and a slanted capital L for a sense of forward momentum, activity, and urgency. Highlighting multifunctionality and utility.