5 min

A spring is a design decision

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

Note

A transition has a shape. Whether a panel settles or snaps changes how heavy it feels, and that is a design decision whether or not a designer made it.

Two numbers

Most motion on a product can be described with stiffness and damping. I keep three pairs as tokens and name them for what they are for: moving, opening, and arriving.

Review it like colour

Nobody would accept “blue-ish” in a pull request. Motion deserves the same care: name the spring, show it at a tenth of the speed, and agree on it before it spreads.

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

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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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