Journal

Notes on building what I design.

Short pieces on states, springs, prototypes and type. Written when a project teaches me something.

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Loading, empty, half-failed and offline: the screens a design file leaves out, and how I budget for them.

6 min

Why stiffness and damping belong in the design review, not in a pull request comment.

5 min

What changes when the prototype and the product share components, and what it costs.

8 min

Notes on type that narrows instead of wrapping, which is how the headline on this site works.

4 min

Booking from March 2027. Tell me what you are building and when it needs to exist.

hello@marenokafor.example

The moon in a dark blue sky

Start with a short email

Booking from March 2027. I reply within a day.

hello@marenokafor.example

Booking from March 2027. Tell me what you are building and when it needs to exist.

hello@marenokafor.example

The moon in a dark blue sky

Start with a short email

Booking from March 2027. I reply within a day.

hello@marenokafor.example

Maren Okafor, Lisbon. I design interfaces and write the code that ships them. Most of the work is in the hyphen.

2026

Maren Okafor, Lisbon. I design interfaces and write the code that ships them. Most of the work is in the hyphen.

2026

Design engineer in Lisbon. Booking from March 2027.

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Lisbon. Replies within a day.

© 2026 Maren Okafor

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