Notes on interfaces that feel calm.
I'm Mira Okafor, a design engineer in Lisbon. I build interfaces at the seam between design and code, and write about the small details that make software feel calm.
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Concentric corners, and other things your eye notices first
Why a card inside a card looks wrong when both share a radius, and the one-line rule that fixes nested surfaces.
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5 postsA motion budget for product UI
Spend animation on moments that happen once. Everything you touch a hundred times a day should feel instant.
MotionDesign9 min readOKLCH in practice: one hue, twelve jobs
Building a neutral and an accent ramp where every step has a role, and dark mode is more than the list reversed.
ColorCSS11 min readNumbers that don't wiggle
Tabular figures, fixed-width counters and the three places every dashboard forgets to use them.
Typography4 min readDesigning for an agent that asks permission
Approval cards, live plans and diffs: notes from a year of building interfaces for coding agents.
AIDesign13 min read
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