FRONTEND DEVELOPER

Studio Context

Studio Neu is a design-led agency working primarily with cultural institutions, fashion brands, and architecture firms. The technical brief for most projects is: make the design director's vision work in a browser, without compromise.

That framing produces interesting engineering problems. The gap between a Figma file from a serious art director and what a standard component library will do is substantial. Most of the work was closing that gap.

Selected Projects

Museum Digital Archive

Interactive catalogue for a contemporary art museum. The challenge was building a browsing interface for 4,000+ catalogue entries that felt designed rather than database-generated. Solution: a custom masonry layout engine with variable aspect ratio handling, infinite scroll with predictive prefetching, and a full-text search index built at deploy time.

E-commerce Platform Rebuild

Full Shopify rebuild for a mid-size fashion brand. The previous implementation used a commercial theme; the new one is entirely custom. Built a product configurator with real-time 3D preview using Three.js — customers can rotate and inspect the product with custom colour and material selections applied.

Architecture Portfolio

WebGL-accelerated project showcase for an architectural practice. Spatial navigation metaphor: the interface is structured as a floor plan, and users navigate between projects by moving through a rendered space. GSAP handles the transition choreography.

What I Learned

Working inside a studio where the creative director makes the final call on everything forces a particular discipline: you learn to solve technical problems without making them visible. The constraints are real (browsers, performance budgets, device compatibility) but the user should never see them.