Thiago Oliveira

Design Engineer

Crafting interfaces at the intersection of design and engineering. I share techniques, experiments, and the details that make digital products feel right.

Recent Work

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Crafting Smooth Page Transitions

tutorialApr 10

A deep dive into building performant, elegant page transitions using Framer Motion and Next.js App Router.

Design Tokens That Scale

snippetApr 5

How to architect CSS custom properties for a design system that works across light mode, dark mode, and beyond.

Rethinking Hover States

case studyMar 28

Why most hover effects feel cheap, and how to design interactions that communicate hierarchy and affordance.