Blog

Sharing case studies and tutorials to show how I tackle challenges and build solutions as a design engineer.

How I Built My ZX Spectrum-Inspired Website
Case study11 Fev 2025

How I Built My ZX Spectrum-Inspired Website

In this post, I’ll share how I built my personal website inspired by the ZX Spectrum.

Xata website deep dive v.2024
Case study23 Mar 2024

Xata website deep dive v.2024

Showcasing the details of the makeover of the Xata website as we move to our new serverless Postgres offering.

Using Next.js to improve speed and efficiency at Xata
Case study09 Nov 2023

Using Next.js to improve speed and efficiency at Xata

Discover how Xata utilizes Next.js to enhance speed and efficiency.

Bulding Elastic UI
Case study02 Set 2022

Bulding Elastic UI

Most of the work as a designer at Elastic UI consists of maintaining, evangelizing, enhancing, and adding new components. I have been working on the Elastic UI team for 3 years now and I have been able to work on a lot of different components.

How to create a drooling cat animation
Tutorial27 Jul 2022

How to create a drooling cat animation

This is a very simple drooling cat animation created with React, Emotion, and Figma.

A timeslider for Elastic Maps
Case study10 Ago 2021

A timeslider for Elastic Maps

During my time as the primary designer for for Elastic Maps, I had the opportunity to design a feature that had been eagerly anticipated by the GIS community - the Timeslider.

Designing and building a Markdown Editor
Case study20 Mai 2020

Designing and building a Markdown Editor

At Elastic, we needed a component that would allow writing technical content. This content could contain code, images, attached files, or even embeddable components.

A Segmentation tool to communicate with cinema audiences
Case study14 Jun 2019

A Segmentation tool to communicate with cinema audiences

As a solution to the issue of mass communication in cinema marketing, my team at Showtime Analytics created a segmentation tool that allows marketers to segment audiences based on their demographics, habits, and interests.