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Made by hand. Rendered by machine.

Built by someone who can
actually build the system.

The portrait beside these words is thirteen thousand dots of the photo's own color. Run your cursor through him. Then scroll: the dots scatter, and the studio's field scatters in through them, the wave, the lattice, the helix. A person, amplified by the machine.

Designer and UI engineer since 2013. Agency years, certified Shopify and Magento ecommerce, two-plus years at Apple on the AskApple team. Based in Weston, Florida, in English and Spanish. The person you'll talk to, and the final set of eyes on everything that ships.

10+ years

designing and building for the web

Apple

2+ years as a UI Engineer on the AskApple team

The road here

Ten years of making.

  1. 2013

    Design roots

    Logos, print, and WordPress sites for local businesses at Contour Graphics.

  2. 2014

    First studio

    Founded The Good Life Designs: full websites, brand identities, and marketing material, end to end, for small businesses.

  3. 2015

    The agency years

    Design, product photography, and conversion-focused builds at Adgo, working alongside SEO and paid-search specialists.

  4. 2017

    E-commerce at scale

    Shopify Plus and Magento builds at Gauge Interactive. Certified on both platforms. Built an interactive catalog app running on 55-inch touchscreens in retail stores across the US.

  5. 2019

    Independent, again

    Three years with The Monroe Institute. When COVID closed their retreat campus, we built and launched their virtual retreat platform in about six weeks. Plus Shopify Plus builds for brands like SNOW.

  6. 2022

    Apple

    UI Engineer on the AskApple team. Frontend work on the chat customers use to reach Apple, plus internal tools built with Vue.js, MongoDB, and REST APIs.

  7. Today

    Handmade Digital

    Handmade Digital, based in Weston, Florida. All of the above, now applied to AI automation and custom business tools for small businesses across South Florida and beyond, alongside the websites, stores, and brands the studio has always built.

What we work with

  • Vue.js & Nuxt
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Shopify & Shopify Plus
  • REST APIs & webhooks
  • MongoDB & Firebase
  • WordPress
  • Design systems
  • Brand & identity design
  • Product photography
  • SEO foundations
  • AI automations & agents
  • AI integrations
  • English & Español

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