04 / Writing
An archive of writing.
An archive of 16 posts on frontend architecture, FinTech, accessibility, design systems, and the human parts of senior engineering. Latest on Medium.
2026
2026-05-11I Used to Think Accessibility Was Mostly a UX Concern — Until I Moved to the UKHow relocating from India to the UK changed the way I think about frontend engineering, React architecture, and product compliance.Accessibility8 min2026-04-23From UI to Decision SystemsSix years of watching, one year of building. Notes on the shift from interface design to decision architecture.Architecture6 min2026-04-06From Signals to Decisions: Why Most Trading Recommendations FailThere's no shortage of trading signals today. The shortage is in the reasoning behind them.FinTech4 min2026-03-20From Upload to Payment: Designing a High-Performance React Workflow EngineWe were building a finance automation platform for a U.S.-based vendor system. Here is what we learned shipping it.FinTech4 min2026-03-05Not Everything Needs to Be Real-Time: A Practical Approach to Frontend in FinTechWhen I first started working on trading platforms — especially those dealing with US securities — I assumed one thing.FinTech4 min2026-02-24I Optimized Pixels. I Ignored People.For years, I thought I understood UI. Then I started watching people use what I had built.Design Systems3 min2026-02-17Your AI-Generated Frontend Looks Perfect — Until Users Touch ItRecently I reviewed a product that was built almost entirely by AI within a few days. Then real users arrived.AI/UX4 min2026-02-13The Web Isn't a Set of Pages Anymore — It's a Runtime SystemWhy thinking of the web as discrete pages limits how we architect, ship, and reason about frontend products.Architecture6 min2026-02-06Why Most Frontend Apps Collapse After 2 YearsArchitectural drift is silent. By the time you notice it, the codebase is already past the point of cheap recovery.Architecture4 min2026-02-03The Small Decisions That Matter: Micro-Interactions I Shipped While Building a Trading PlatformThe interactions users never notice when they work — and never forgive when they do not.FinTech3 min2026-01-31From Webpack to Vite: How My Frontend Tooling Evolved Across Real Fintech & Trading ProductsFive years of build-tool decisions across production FinTech codebases. What changed, what stayed, what I would do differently.Tooling3 min
2025
2025-10-07The Invisible Mirror: How Bias Shapes the Way We Design (and How I Learned to See It)Design decisions reflect the designer. A note on assumptions, blind spots, and the slow work of seeing them.Design Systems3 min2025-10-04Journey from APIs to KPIsFor the past five years, I have lived in the world of front-end engineering. My days have been filled with building interfaces — then I started measuring them.Career5 min2025-01-01The Future of AI in UI/UX: Exploring Locofy.aiArtificial Intelligence is revolutionizing various industries, and User Experience design is no exception. A close look at one tool reshaping the workflow.AI/UX5 min
2024
2024-07-28Essential Usability Heuristics for Designing Effective Large Data Processing SolutionsDeveloping large data processing solutions for web or desktop applications comes with unique challenges. As a UX/UI designer, here is what I learned.Design Systems6 min2024-06-16Embracing Multiple Roles: The Life of a Generalist UX Designer in a Small CompanyWhat it actually looks like to be the only designer in the room — and the trade-offs you make along the way.Career4 min
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