Notes on design, systems, and the work.
My personal blog — the same writing I publish on Medium, kept here as well. Short, honest notes from building design systems for banking.
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May 2024
A wheelchair ramp on campus that looks too steep to be safe. Checking the recommended slope against the real one — measured with a phone — shows how far everyday spaces still fall short for wheelchair users.
Read → Design JourneyNegative Case
Dec 2022 · 3 min read
Good UX is not only the happy path. Through two login cases — wrong password, forgotten password, unregistered email — this piece explores designing error and edge states with clear feedback, and why overly specific error messages can become a security risk.
Read → Design JourneyF*ck Design System
May 2022 · 2 min read
When a design system itself makes Figma run out of memory. The hidden culprit: layers that are hidden still consume storage — and the fix is building proper variants and components instead of hiding layers away.
Read → Design JourneyProblema About Design System
Feb 2022 · 2 min read
Maintaining the design system of a very large project whose Figma file hit 100% memory — made harder because every sub-project kept its own system. The way out: merge them into one shared system, carefully, because a change to a shared component cascades everywhere.
Read → LearningPateron | 1st Internship Story
Jan 2021 · 1 min read
Notes from a first internship at Pateron Indonesia — where UI/UX turned out to be far more than attractive screens: user-centered design, design systems, grids, and responsive thinking. Good design, it turns out, is design that can actually be applied.
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