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title: Interface Engineering: Design to Production React
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# INTERFACE ENGINEERING

You have a design you believe in. I build it without the quiet compromises that normally happen between a design file and a production branch.

## The problem this solves

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Designs degrade on the way to production, and rarely because anyone decided they should. A spacing scale gets approximated. A transition that was specified at four hundred milliseconds ends up at the library default of two hundred. An empty state nobody drew gets invented under deadline. Individually each is minor; together they're the difference between a product that feels considered and one that feels assembled.

## How I work through it

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I start by reading the design for the things it doesn't say, and I come back with a list: what this list looks like with one item, with a thousand, with a failed request, with a forty-character name where eight were drawn. That list is usually the most valuable artefact of the first week, and it's cheaper to answer those questions in a document than in a pull request.

Then I build in vertical slices. One complete screen, every state, on real data, before starting the second. It front-loads the unpleasant discoveries — that the API can't provide a field the design depends on, that the interaction needs a value the endpoint doesn't return — while there's still time to respond to them.

## What you get

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A production frontend with every state implemented, keyboard navigation and screen reader behaviour handled as part of the build rather than retrofitted, and a written record of the decisions made where the design was ambiguous. Plus the list of things I'd still change, which is never empty.

## Key facts

- Typical: 6 — 10 weeks
- Inputs: Design files, API access
- Output: Production frontend
- Stack: React / TS, usually

## Fit

- Good fit: Settled design, real API
- Bad fit: Design not started
- Duration: 6 — 10 weeks
- Handover: Docs + decision log

## Topics

REACT, TYPESCRIPT, STATE MACHINES, ACCESSIBILITY, COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE

## Image

![Array of dark translucent interface panels showing network topology, metrics and status tiles](https://www.hire-web-dev.com/assets/img/interface-engineering-translucent-ui-panels.jpg)