Twenty years of UX design and front-end engineering, now run as an AI-amplified practice. I design the system, art-direct the world, and build the product that holds both.
Open to design systems, product, and frontend engineering roles — and creative technologist work
More about me
Now · Product operating model
Foundry Series · Self-initiated personal project
None of these houses exist. I invent each one around a craft that does and set it in the country that craft comes from: a Black Forest clock house, a Cremona violin bench, a barong workshop in Laguna. The part I keep coming back to is picturing the person inside — hours gone, absorbed in it. 22 so far, with more countries to come. Websites are what I know how to make; working with AI is what let me make them about the things I love.
The amplification
I wanted to build every one of them, and there is only one of me. Working with agents is how a workshop of one gets to 22 — and I love it. Not for the speed. For the reach: a thing I am curious about on a Tuesday can be a finished, running site by the weekend.
No two of these share a colour, a typeface, or a single token value — a Murano furnace has no business looking like a log yard in Numedal. What they do share is the schema those tokens are written in, the pipeline that compiles them, a critique loop, and an accessibility floor none of them is allowed to fall through. The system is the structure, never the surface.
This is the part I did not see coming. I have wanted to work at this range my whole career, and now I can. I direct agents across research, art direction, implementation, and critique, and the constraints live in writing — a design doctrine per world, a contrast contract, asset budgets, a review pass — so speed never becomes the thing deciding how the work looks. I frame the problem, set the rules, look at the evidence, and throw away most of what comes back.
It is the same relationship a knife maker has with a good hammer. The tool does not make the judgment; it makes the judgment possible. What is new is that a curiosity I would once have let go now gets built instead — and that is the most fun I have had making things.
Applied design system · White-label product
Design systems · AI-assisted workflow
I use AI to accelerate the design system process without losing structure, consistency, or judgment. My workflow covers context gathering, foundation extraction, token definition, component building, documentation, and validation.
Read the workflowReads the codebase, brand material, and precedentI decide what constrains the work and what to ignore
Extracts scale, rhythm, and ratioI set what the product must protect
Proposes the DTCG model and aliasesI name them and fix the contract
Builds against the token contractI review states, keyboard, and long content
Checks Figma, Storybook, and production for driftI confirm each finding in the running UI
Working note · 18 Jul 2026
“A system should leave room for fingerprints.”
Design system
I believe in design systems. Rather than just talking about them, here’s a quick demo of how a governed, token-driven design system keeps components and styles in sync and lets one source of truth drive the entire theme. Every card below is generated from that source, and the component list is checked against the stylesheets at build time — so none of it can describe a system this site does not have. Try re-skinning the site live in the , or open the full system — the ten-step type scale, and the four breakpoints that a build check will fail the site for going outside of.
Colour · 6 semantic
background.canvasbackground.surfacetext.primarytext.secondarytext.accentborder.strongType scale · 10 steps
0.7rem0.8rem0.9rem1rem1.05–1.25rem1.25–1.65rem1.6–2.5rem2.25–3.75rem2.75–5.5rem3.25–8remSpacing · 12 steps
050 · 4100 · 8150 · 12200 · 16250 · 20300 · 24400 · 32500 · 40600 · 48800 · 641200 · 961500 · 120Components · 12 shared
Method
Open to new work
Most teams split design systems, product engineering, and art direction across three roles and then spend the rest of the project reconciling them. I have spent twenty years on that seam, and agents have made it something one person can now hold end to end.
If any of that is what you are hiring for, I would like to hear about it.
hello@angvince.com