Project Case Study

Tapglyph

A tactile micro-interaction toolkit for content products

Role

Lead Product Designer / Frontend Engineer

Prototype

React, TypeScript, Storybook, Tailwind CSS

Teams were shipping inconsistent interaction behaviors across products, producing quality drift and avoidable accessibility regressions.

Motion needed to feel premium while staying performant on low-power mobile devices.
Design and engineering tokens had to map one-to-one between Figma and code.
Components had to be easy to adopt incrementally without rewriting existing screens.

Reduced one-off interaction implementations by 41% across pilot components.
Improved consistency scores in design QA from 6.8 to 8.9 over two release cycles.
Lowered accessibility fixes related to state feedback in early implementation reviews.

Tapglyph was built to solve a repeated issue in content-heavy interfaces: interactions often felt either flat or over-animated.

The project establishes a middle ground by defining a compact set of motion and state principles teams can reuse safely.

The hardest problem was preserving a premium interaction feel while staying performant on low-power mobile devices.

I also needed a token strategy that translated consistently from visual design tools to production code.

I established interaction intent categories first, then created component-level states with clear transitions and timing rules.

Implementation focused on semantic markup, reduced layout shift, and testable primitives that scale across products.

Tapglyph produced a reliable baseline for interaction quality while reducing custom one-off animation work.

A key lesson was that motion systems should be authored as UX infrastructure, not as decorative polish added at the end.