Design and engineering for the Compass Detroit event platforms. What it takes to ship six sites with six identities when the launch date is already in someone's calendar invite.
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The 2026 Michigan DevFest site is up at midevfest.com—Save the Date for November 13–14 at Little Caesars Global Resource Center—while we migrate hard-coded event data into Sanity, grow the partner roster, and prepare a separate venue announcement for the AI Hackathon.
A behind-the-scenes look at how we’re replacing hardcoded speaker data with a content system organizers can actually use — without fragile image links or thousand-line JavaScript files.
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A design system document may need the simplicity of a bundler
A design team in Figma, an engineering team new to components, and no agreement about what a component actually was. What I built at ICPSR and what it took to get it used.