Uses

The tools, apps, frameworks, and hardware I use day to day for design, web, mobile, macOS, and AI workflow work.

Design

Figma My primary environment for UI design, polished prototypes, component specs, and most of the visual work I ship.
Design Systems How I keep visuals and behavior consistent across screens, platforms, and engineers.
UI Components I think in reusable building blocks: composable, documented, and resilient to design changes.
Material Design My reference language whenever I’m designing for Android or Material-flavored web products.
Human Interface Guidelines The equivalent reference for anything I’m designing on iOS, iPadOS, or macOS.
Human-Centered Design The lens I bring to every project: start from the user’s context, not the feature list.
User Research Interviews and contextual inquiry to understand who I’m actually designing for before I touch a canvas.
Usability Testing Structured tasks with metrics like success rate, completion time, errors, and ease ratings to guide iteration.
Typography Picking and pairing typefaces is the fastest way to make an interface feel intentional.
Color Theory Palettes, hierarchy, and accessibility-aware contrast.

Python My main language for backend services, data work, and quick scripts.
Swift + SwiftUI What I reach for whenever I’m building native macOS or iOS apps.
JavaScript The glue for everything browser-based. Most of my web work still starts here.
TypeScript What I reach for once a JS project grows past a single screen and I want the compiler to catch my mistakes.
React My primary web UI library. The component model just clicks for me as a designer.
React Native What I use for mobile apps that need one codebase across iOS and Android.
HTML & CSS The fundamentals; still the most underrated skills in front-end.
Tailwind CSS My default styling layer on new web projects. Utility classes keep iteration fast.
C / C++ What I drop down to whenever I’m working closer to the hardware.

Git Version control on every project I touch.
GitHub Where my code, releases, and CI live, including signed and notarized macOS distribution workflows.
Firebase My go-to for auth and live data on quick mobile builds.
Expo The React Native tooling I rely on for builds, dev clients, and OTA updates.
Xcode The IDE for anything Swift, SwiftUI, or Apple-platform debugging.
RESTful APIs My default for service-to-service communication.
GraphQL What I prefer when the data shape varies a lot per screen and I want to pull only what I need.
SQL The language I use to query relational data day to day.
PostgreSQL My default relational store for anything beyond a prototype.
FastAPI The Python framework I use for APIs and quick backend prototypes.

Prompt Engineering Crafting and iterating prompts to get reliable, well-structured outputs from LLMs.
AI-Assisted Coding Pair-programming with models throughout the day, from refactors to scaffolding to exploring unfamiliar codebases.
OpenAI Codex What I reach for on code generation and quick experiments.
Claude Code My daily driver for AI-assisted coding inside the terminal.
RAG Systems How I ground LLM answers in private or domain-specific data when a product can’t rely on the model’s pre-training alone.
Dify The platform I use to build agent workflows and chain LLM calls without writing all the orchestration glue from scratch.
AI Agent Workflows Designing how multiple agents and tools collaborate to complete a task from start to finish.
Human-AI Interaction The design lens I bring to AI products: make model behavior legible, recoverable, and trustworthy.
Whisper / Speech-to-Text Whisper (and whisper.cpp for fully on-device, privacy-preserving transcription) is what I use whenever a product needs speech-to-text.