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Notes fromthe workshop.
Engineering write-ups, design teardowns, and short essays from the studio. No newsletter, no popup.
Shipping a sub-50ms trading UI on an L2
Order books, optimistic state, and the small infrastructure choices that buy you 30ms back. A teardown of the Zentus exchange workstation.
One design system, two information densities
How we built a multi-surface fintech platform on a shared system — and why the density difference matters more than the color.
Going multi-tenant: schemas vs. row-level security
We migrated a single-tenant ops console into a multi-tenant SaaS. Here's why we ended up with hybrid isolation and how the audit team reacted.
Smooth scroll, ScrollTrigger, and the RAF that ties them
Lenis hands off to GSAP, GSAP hands off to ScrollTrigger. Get the order wrong and pinned sections go sideways. Get it right and your site feels expensive.
Brand as product surface
Logos are cheap. The real brand work is the hundred component decisions a customer touches every day. A short field guide.
Tokenomics is mostly UX debt
Most token mechanisms fail because nobody can read them. A pattern library for explaining staking, vesting, and governance without a whiteboard.