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Design
Performance budgets are usually treated as an engineering concern applied after design is finished. That ordering is backwards, and it shows in the result.
Speed and polish get treated as opposites, but the fastest products we've worked on are also the most carefully designed. A few of the trade-offs we make deliberately instead of by accident.
Most sites don't need more motion. They need the motion they already have to mean something. A short list of rules we hold ourselves to before adding any animation.
Dark mode built as an afterthought usually looks like a filter over a light design. Treating both themes as first-class from the start produces something better than either alone.
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