Writing — essays on design engineering, shipping, and process by Syauqi Zaidan.

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Writing · drafts & notes

Notes from a
shipping brain.

Things I'm thinking about while shipping. Drafts, opinions, the occasional rant about toolchains. Selected reading on the tools these essays touch: Next.js docs, React docs, Tailwind CSS docs.

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framer, as a production tool

What I've learned shipping HitPay's product pages on Framer for a year and a half. The strengths, the limits, and the moves you only learn the hard way.

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·7 min

the portfolio I actually finished

Every designer I know has a half-built portfolio site. Here is how I got mine to a public URL by stopping short of perfect on purpose.

#meta#process#shipping
·4 min

the cats built the studio

Mochi naps on the keyboard, Kopi judges every PR, Susu owns the radiator. Notes on co-working with four cats and why my deadlines feel calmer for it.

#personal#studio#cats
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draw before you code

Why I still start every new feature on paper. A short defence of low-fidelity in the year that everyone has access to magic.

#design#process#sketching