Andrew Shiau is a frontend engineer who designs and builds.

Work

Stores Designer →

A design-system tool at Amazon that lets distributed teams build consistent shopping experiences — the through-line from Luthier.

Luthier →

Invented a no-code graphics-automation process at Amazon scale: a Figma widget that turns a design into a production template, no engineer required.

Powerpoint Pen Toolbox →

Redesigned PowerPoint's inking toolbox through 20+ rounds of functional prototyping and user tests — the data refuted the team’s first design.

Photography →

Shot with iPhones, a Fuji X100, and a Leica Q.

Recipes →

124 recipes and cooking essays — filed like a reference manual, not a blog. An agent files each entry against a fixed style guide; I do the cooking.

Aping →

An agent skill that writes in the Swiss style — Müller-Brockmann's grid. It built this site.

Explain →

A skill that turns something I figured out into an interactive explainer — a diagram and a quiz that check the idea landed.

Proofs →

A skill that renders every design option side by side, in the real system, so you pick by looking instead of imagining.

Colophon

Elsewhere github