Mobile System Design

Apr 18, 2025

Advice to My Younger Self

Reflections from 25 years of building software and 15 years in mobile. Lessons on reusable code, developer mindsets, third-party dependencies, and staying focused on what really matters.

Apr 06, 2025

Structuring Spacing for Scalable Mobile UIs

Why structuring spacing matters in mobile UI design, how to define spacing primitives and semantics, and why this matters for scalable, maintainable views.

Aug 12, 2024

Key Lessons When Moving Towards a Modular Codebase

Learn key lessons to translate a monolithic codebase into a modular one.

Jun 17, 2024

Elegantly Handling Transitive Dependencies

Sometimes we end up with Dependency A that has Dependency B that has Dependency C. But A may not know about C. This article explains how to handle that without relying on fancy frameworks.

Designing a declarative API

What if your feature was a Command Line Tool?

The power of self-sufficient features

Deliver reusable components without making them reusable

Uh oh, you picked the wrong UI architecture

Shift-left testing approaches

Receiving designs as a developer