AI products, civic systems, and design tools — designed and shipped from Tokyo, in Japanese and English.
View workProduct work made for Japan's Digital Agency — public-sector digital services designed for clarity, accessibility, and trust at national scale.
A unified system for city staff and field contractors — bringing inspection, reporting, and approval workflows for public green infrastructure into one coherent product.
Digital experience for the Japanese market of a Finnish brand that makes pro plugins and gear for guitar and bass.
A business-oriented design system optimized for the Japanese market — typography, components, and documentation built for real product teams.
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 shipped always-on agents called dots, a shared workspace for them, GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra's price, a 300-token-per-second speed tier, and its own answer to Jev. Here's what actually launched, what it costs, and where I'd start.
Higgsfield just shipped Layers — an AI image editor that splits one flat image into real, editable layers. Swap the background, the object, even the text, and nothing else moves. Here's what it actually does, what it costs, and where it breaks.
TypeSafe AI came out of stealth with $40M and a model that can't write a sentence. Three days later it was the fastest-adopted model in Vercel's AI Gateway history. Here's what Jev actually does, what the benchmarks leave out, and the four places I'd put it first.
Cindy Zhu's full setup for a custom Claude skill that reverse-engineers viral short-form videos — install the skill, connect Apify so Claude pulls real transcripts and metrics itself, paste a week of saved reels, and get hook, structure, retention and cross-video pattern reports. Includes the complete paste-ready skill source.
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The ten-point checklist I run before shipping any interface — accessibility, performance, and the states everyone forgets.
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Get it freeI'm Mac Xiang, a Tokyo-based product designer and engineer. I design and build digital products end to end — currently AI products and a 3D editor for spatial storytelling, previously civic-tech systems, design systems, and consumer apps.
More about meI make videos about product design, AI tools, and building in public — process breakdowns, critiques, and the occasional build log.
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