Utopia.app is a design and coding environment for React projects that runs entirely in the browser. It combines a code editor and design tool, with full two-way synchronization between design and code.
I worked as a Creative Technologist, designing the UI and writing the React/TypeScript/CSS interpreters they were coupled to. I set goalposts by designing the kinds of beautiful, physically-based interactions we wanted to make easy in the app, and built roadmaps to achieve them.
Founder Malte Nuhn showing off how Utopia has evolved inside Shopify. (I left before the acquisition, but the core has remained the same.)
Utopia was acquired by Shopify and is currently being integrated into their Hydrogen shop-building platform.
The Utopia logo I designed, affectionately referred to as the "Smiangle". The first of many smiley face logos.