Dylan Smith
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pixel-perfect interfaces. Building reusable and scalable systems for the people who use them.
Intro
“You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”
— James Clear
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Small details compound over large surfaces to make a big difference.
Solutions over tools
Work backwards from the blue-sky result. Systems support the solution, not the other way around.
Be kind to your future self
Document the why and leave clever breadcrumbs.
Outcomes
Designed & shipped end-to-end, from token architecture to WCAG-compliant components.
pages of documentation authored
across design, development, and data engineering
Cut from 3 months to 2 weeks across 12+ concurrent projects by standardizing project structure and building a custom Python CLI package.
Work
SmartAdvocate UI Refresh
Sole designer & developer on the site-wide UI refresh — first design system at the company, shipped into a legacy ASP.NET / DevExpress codebase with no regressions.
Bank Reconciliation
Bringing the experience of reconciling bank statements into the 21st century.
RapidPay
Two-panel design with a guided workflow for processing payments, replacing a disjointed legacy multi-step experience.
rarebrew.gg
A desktop-first PWA deckbuilder for Magic: The Gathering Commander — custom component library on design tokens, Recharts visualizations, Scryfall + EDHREC data layer.