Mateo Szymkowicz

Hero section for a tech company.

Designed a website for a nail studio. Not what most people expect to see in my portfolio. But the brief was exactly the kind I like: a solo operator with a strong personality, no design foundation, and a clear need to look more credible than the competition. The studio...

The fastest way to blow a deadline is to hand a developer a file they have to interpret. Interpretation is where time goes. A screen that looks finished but doesn't say what happens on tap. A flow with no error state. A component that exists on one screen and gets rebuilt...

Every time someone picks up their phone with nothing specific to do, TikTok wins. The dopamine is instant. No thinking, no effort, no decision. Just reward. That's the moment we're designing for. I'm building a product with a friend for exactly those low-energy gaps. And early...