Case studies on Andy Gongea — Product Designer

Color Forklift

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

01 · The problem

Even steps in HSL don't look even to people.

A color scale looks simple: pick a base color, then generate lighter and darker steps. Most generators do that in HSL, and HSL isn’t perceptually uniform. Yellows wash out, blues turn muddy, and a 500 in one hue looks heavier than a 500 in another.

Iveeo

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

01 · The problem

Recording your screen shouldn't come with a list of conditions.

Recording a quick demo shouldn’t require choosing a subscription. Yet every option I looked at charged something: money, features, privacy or an account. I wrote the conditions down and designed the product to remove every one of them.

Snyk Code

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

01 · Launch

Two cultures, one product, in under five months.

DeepCode was a small, research-led startup. Snyk was an established scale-up with its own platform, patterns and customers. Merging the two was hard at times, and it paid off. We had to turn DeepCode’s engine into a product that felt native to Snyk, and we had one release window to do it.

Update Now

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Checking for outdated packages usually means leaving the editor: run a command, read a table, then edit version numbers by hand. Update Now puts that information in the manifest itself. A label above each dependency shows whether the update is a patch, minor or major change, so the risk is visible before you click. Clicking applies the update and keeps your ^ or ~ prefix.