Building thoughtful products,
one detail at a time.
We are the Qingzhi software development team — a full-stack team crafting calm, precise, and quietly powerful interfaces, design systems, and developer tools.
Engagements that ship
Three ways to work together. Pick the one that fits — or write to me about something custom.
Sprint
From $6k / week
Two-to-four weeks, focused on a single product surface or system.
- Daily async updates
- Figma + code delivery
- Design system audit
- Friday demo
Partnership
From $18k / month
Embedded with your team for a quarter, leading frontend or design systems.
- Architecture & DX
- Hiring support
- Code reviews
- Roadmap shaping
Advisory
From $1.2k / session
Deep, high-signal sessions for founders and engineering leads.
- 90-minute call
- Written recap
- Two follow-up reviews
- Async Q&A
Project experience as the product
Selected work across SaaS dashboards, design systems, AI tooling and growth-stage frontends.
Atlas UI
A typography-driven component library used across three product lines.
40% faster buildsAI productLumen Console
An LLM observability dashboard with streaming traces and evals.
2.3M traces / weekDeveloper toolPier CLI
A terminal-first deployment tool for monorepos.
p95 deploy 38sGrowthDrift Marketing
A marketing site rebuild focused on narrative and conversion.
+62% sign-upsInterfaces I obsess over
Dashboards, editors and consoles I've designed and shipped — every pixel chosen on purpose.
Operations dashboard
Real-time monitoring with live charts, anomaly detection and a calm information hierarchy.
Portfolio
Long-form case studies — what was shipped, what was learned.
Reimagining the trader workspace
Redesigned a multi-window trading workspace into a single calm canvas.
From CLI to product
Took a developer-loved CLI and turned it into a delightful web product.
Atlas UI v2
Rewrote the design system around CSS variables and a token pipeline.
Patient-facing scheduling
A radically simpler booking flow, validated with 1,200 users.
Recent articles
Essays and field notes from shipping software in the wild.
The quiet UI: why the best interfaces don't shout
Designing a token pipeline that survives a rebrand
Evals are the new tests: a practical playbook
Notes from eight years of being a generalist
Things I've learned, written down
A curated library of patterns, snippets and decisions, organised so you can actually find them.
A small, deliberate place to build together
Join 2,400+ engineers and designers swapping reviews, references and side-project critiques every week.
- Weekly office hours, recorded.
- Critique threads on real work in progress.
- An invite-only Discord for deeper threads.
- Discounts on workshops and tools.
Questions, answered
The things people ask before reaching out.
Mostly product engineering and design systems for early to mid-stage SaaS. If it's calm, technical and craft-driven, I'm interested.
Not currently. I work as an independent partner on focused engagements between four and twelve weeks.
A flat weekly retainer. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices. Pricing is shared in our first call.
Yes — I work with teams across Asia, Europe and the Americas. I write and ship in both English and Chinese.
Yes, and thank you. There's a sponsor link in the footer. Sponsors get early access to private write-ups.
Have a project worth doing well?
I take on a small number of partners each quarter. The next opening is in three weeks.
Have a project in mind?
Fill out the form or email me directly. I'll respond within 24 hours. Next availability: 3 weeks