Steven Neamonitakis · Design Engineer I research the problem, design the system, and build it.

I work across product design and front-end engineering, from early research to the tools teams use in production. Most recently I built Arbor at Linktree, bringing more than ten micro-frontends onto one version of the design system. Before that, Design Director at thoughtbot.

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Work

Arbor

Senior software engineer who led the build of Linktree’s design system, where “primary button” meant three things until every surface shared one token set.

CloseKnit

I designed and built the web intake and its design system, working around clinical questions we couldn’t rewrite.

Groups

Research shaped a recovery-care platform. I designed the staff experience and built a design system shared by web and mobile.

Poppy Flowers

I facilitated a one-week sprint that changed a quiz’s job: prepare people for a florist, rather than replace the conversation.

Splice

Splice’s first full-time designer, working across product and front-end code as the company grew from session backup to Sounds and Rent-to-Own.

Writing

Series · 6 parts

The Proof

What earlier proofs can teach us about making type read well, and how to check those decisions on a changing page.

Start with Part 1
  1. 01The invisible seam
  2. 5 more parts to come

Series · 5 parts

Building Arbor

How shared decisions reach designers, engineers, and agents through research, migration tools, documentation, and checks.

Start with Part 1
  1. 01Structure, not house style
  2. 02Evidence you can argue with
  3. 03Meeting people where they work
  4. 04One front door, several sources
  5. 05The guidance needs testing too

All writing