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What is a Mobile Platform Engineer?
Most mobile developers never get the chance to touch platform engineering. These roles typically exist only at larger companies that have reached the scale where developer productivity becomes a bottleneck rather than feature delivery. Because platform engineering roles are still relatively rare, most developers don't really understand what the work involves or whether it might be right for them.…
6 Mistakes That Slow Down Mobile Feature Development
Most feature development slowdowns stem from fundamental thinking mistakes rather than technical knowledge gaps. Learn the six critical architectural thinking traps that consistently slow down mobile development and how to avoid them.
What is Mobile System Design?
What is Mobile System Design? Learn how system design applies to modern mobile apps, why it matters, and what makes it different from backend system design.
Reducing the Friction Between Designers and Developers
Practical tips for improving designer–developer collaboration and reducing the frustration that comes from late-stage design changes.
How to Prepare for a Mobile System Design Interview
A practical guide with resources for mobile engineers preparing for mobile system design interviews.
Why a Design System Matters to Developers
As a developer, it's tempting to ignore design systems and just build from handoffs. But a good system isn't just for designers; It helps developers work faster, make better decisions, and build polished UIs together with design.
Advice to My Younger Self
Reflections from 25 years of building software and 15 years in mobile. Lessons on reusable code, developer mindsets, third-party dependencies, and staying focused on what really matters.
Structuring Spacing for Scalable Mobile UIs
Why structuring spacing matters in mobile UI design, how to define spacing primitives and semantics, and why this matters for scalable, maintainable views.
Key Lessons When Moving Towards a Modular Codebase
Learn key lessons to translate a monolithic codebase into a modular one.
Elegantly Handling Transitive Dependencies
Sometimes we end up with Dependency A that has Dependency B that has Dependency C. But A may not know about C. This article explains how to handle that without relying on fancy frameworks.
Designing a declarative API
To fit the declarative realm, we can get fancy and design a declarative API. Let's go over some techniques to add to your tool belt.
What if your feature was a Command Line Tool?
When working with UI, it can sometimes be ambiguous where to place business logic. By imagining our features as a Command Line Tool, this can become quite clear.
The power of self-sufficient features
Imagine features capable of functioning independently, without relying on their parent too much, if at all. They can handle their tasks autonomously, with no need to be micromanaged by an ancestor class.
Deliver reusable components without making them reusable
Reusability and duplication are tough to balance. What if I told you that, sometimes, you don't have to?
Uh oh, you picked the wrong UI architecture
Discover why UI architectures are less important than it might seem.
Shift-left testing approaches
In this article, we'll figure out approaches to get stronger integration tests early in the development journey.
Receiving designs as a developer
In this article, you will read about how to get more out of designs, and figure out ways to deliver features faster.