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Two granted US design patents from my work at Adobe.
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Full case privateAn audit counted 1,450+ violations. Singularity is one code-first system with 305 components and 945 tokens. Marketing used it to rebuild OneMain homepage layouts.
Code-first · Eli Lilly is the Figma-first counterpart
Full case privateA federated token architecture across 50+ applications. Application teams adopted it and now build fewer one-off component variants.
Figma-first · Singularity at OneMain is the code-first counterpart
Full case privateSix advisor personas, five fidelities and three devices made about 5,400 combinations. 123 automated tests checked rendering and export correctness across them.
Full case privateThe product could not stop shipping. I moved the system from Sketch to Figma and code one surface at a time: TV, then mobile and tablet, websites, internal tools and an AI-assisted prototyping platform. 2021 to 2023.
Singularity and the Lilly system are a pair: one started in code, the other in Figma. Both end in parity.
Four things I do, in the order they usually happen.
For engineers: the component library and the sound sets.
Token architecture, theme layers, usage rules, documentation. 945 tokens across 7 styles, one source of truth.
Production components, Figma libraries, parity checks. 305 components, each with matching Figma and code states.
Component contracts, prompt guardrails, an audit step. 1,450+ violations caught before they shipped.
Governance, intake, roadmap, team rituals. Adoption and review quality, measured per component.
305 components, 945 tokens, 1,450+ violations caught
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