Daniel — design engineer and HCI researcher
Move to bend the light.
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Daniel builds thoughtful systems for AI agents, editors, and real-time product work.
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Main Pages:
Daniel's portfolio homepage with selected product, interface, and system design work.
Background, contact details, timeline, interests, and context on Daniel's work.
Essays and notes on design engineering, interaction, memory, and building.
A photography page showing how Daniel frames and sees the world.
A compact reference for the shared UI package and interaction patterns used across the site.
Contact:
Direct contact for work, collaborations, or opportunities.
Professional profile.
Code, experiments, and open-source work.
Work-in-public updates and smaller thoughts.
Full curriculum vitae.
# AIs are Daniel's new user
## Thoughtful interfaces for complex, real-time work
## Experience
Designing and building a compliance automation platform — from trust portals and onboarding flows to AI-powered policy editing.
[EXTERNAL](https://github.com/trycompai/comp)Designing investigation interfaces and monitoring dashboards for security analysts to trace, correlate, and resolve incidents.
[EXTERNAL](https://firetiger.com)Demo engineer and community advocate building real-time collaborative experiences on the edge.
[EXTERNAL](https://blog.partykit.io/posts/flow-and-partykit-collaboration)Personal interface experiments—Flow, OpenPoke, Open Paradigm, and related UI work.
[EXTERNAL](https://nameisdaniel.com/experiences/interface-projects)Multi-agent email assistant — orchestrating triage, reminders, and task delegation through a mobile-style AI shell with Gmail integration.
[EXTERNAL](https://github.com/Itsnotaka/interaction)Open-source spreadsheet workspace recreating Paradigm AI — featuring an app shell with collapsible sidebar, AG Grid Enterprise, AI-driven cell enrichment, and real-time collaboration via Cloudflare Durable Objects.
[EXTERNAL](https://github.com/Itsnotaka/open-paradigm)A faithful recreation of Cursor's element picker and style selection interface, reverse-engineered from bundled Chromium.
## Writing
There's a quiet kind of intimacy in never speaking to someone again. Not a movie-scene goodbye. Just... the slow decision to keep not reaching out. Published 2025-11-15.
Humans were granted the power to freeze time. And now we get to capture the moments we can’t bear to lose. Published 2025-09-25.
Life never follows the script. I nearly dropped out of high school, learned to code through sneaker botting, and just left the company I helped shape from early days. Published 2025-09-10.