PERP GO

Two people. One engineer, one designer. The AI workflow had been part of how the team operated for months before this project started — so the question was never whether to use it, but how to use it well.

For me that meant wireframes as briefing material: screenshots handed to an agent with a direction and a constraint, not passed to a developer for spec. It kept alignment fast between two people working in parallel, and shifted the polish work to where it mattered — closer to launch, when the decisions were real.

Opass had strong opinions about architecture. Hexagonal, clean separation, business logic kept well away from the React layer. I didn't arrive knowing why that mattered. I left understanding it. Working next to someone who cares deeply about the quality of things you can't see is its own kind of design education.

The Apple App Store review process is a special kind of patience test when you're trading financial products. Every submission is a negotiation you're not invited to. You learn to read the rejection reasons carefully and say nothing.

The project was eventually open-sourced under CC BY 4.0 — years of work handed to the community when the team moved on. There's something right about that ending. Nothing about it was wasted.