https://cheviszhou.com/writing Chevis Zhou is a product design engineer (design technologist, technical product designer, UX engineer). He builds the pipeline a product comes out of, then ships that product's interface to production. en-us https://cheviszhou.com/writing/framer-to-code https://cheviszhou.com/writing/framer-to-code Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Framer approved me as an expert in April 2025. Within a year TasteLed had moved to code, because the canvas had no file a machine could write into. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/coordination-was-the-ceiling https://cheviszhou.com/writing/coordination-was-the-ceiling Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The first work I handed to AI was the record-keeping around design: status, handovers, the second copy of everything. That was the ceiling on how much I could carry. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/typography-five-faces-to-two https://cheviszhou.com/writing/typography-five-faces-to-two Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT This site launched wearing someone else's five-face type system. Six prototype rounds later it ships two families, and the swaps that broke short headlines are gone. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/taste-is-perishable https://cheviszhou.com/writing/taste-is-perishable Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The advice going around tells designers to hand over 100% of execution and keep only their taste. I've run most of that experiment for a year, and the last part is where it breaks. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/two-logo-systems https://cheviszhou.com/writing/two-logo-systems Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A client changed their mind about a finished logo. Swapping the drawing took an afternoon. Fixing everything the old drawing had been deciding took a lot longer. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/learning-to-direct-ai https://cheviszhou.com/writing/learning-to-direct-ai Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A designer with no CS background now ships production React. The method is a five-stage loop, and no stage closes until it hands over an artifact I can judge. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/claude-code-vs-cursor https://cheviszhou.com/writing/claude-code-vs-cursor Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Cursor resolves a clicked element straight to its source line; Claude Code has to go looking. That one mechanical difference decides which tool gets which job. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/mentor-buddies-onboarding-redesign https://cheviszhou.com/writing/mentor-buddies-onboarding-redesign Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Mentor Buddies lost 98% of new users before their first mentor. The redesign's highest-leverage move was letting them skip the profile form entirely. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/building-this-portfolio https://cheviszhou.com/writing/building-this-portfolio Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A portfolio has no client, no deadline, no scope ceiling. So I manufactured all three, with AI as the engineering partner. https://cheviszhou.com/writing/read-the-homework https://cheviszhou.com/writing/read-the-homework Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT In February I predicted I could redo two months of design-system work in a week with AI. I was wrong in a way worth writing down: the gain was judgment, not speed.