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<h3>Parlance is a design-to-code contract platform designed to ensure consistency and quality across your entire design system. It meticulously audits design files, code, live products, and native applications against your established UI contracts, glossaries, design tokens, and critical accessibility standards. This comprehensive approach prevents design and code from drifting apart, maintaining a unified and high-quality user experience.</h3><ul><li>UI Contracts: Define the precise structure, properties, and states for every component, ensuring all surfaces adhere to these definitions.</li><li>Drift Detection: Instantly identify discrepancies between design, code, live, and native implementations. Issues are tagged by severity, clearly showing the expected token versus the actual value, making fixes straightforward.</li><li>Glossaries &amp; Tokens: Establish a single, shared vocabulary for design elements like color, spacing, typography, and motion, directly sourced from your design tokens.</li><li>Severity Triage: Prioritize issues from critical to minor, ensuring that release-blocking problems are addressed first, while less urgent matters can be scheduled for later.</li><li>Accessibility Standards: Audits are conducted against essential standards including WCAG 2.2, WAI-ARIA 1.2, HTML, CSS, Section 508, and EN 301 549, providing concrete evidence for each check.</li><li>Multi-Platform Support: Define tokens once and translate them into the specific declarations needed for various frameworks across web, iOS, and Android. Parlance supports over 18 framework targets.</li><li>Seamless Integration: Parlance offers extensions for Figma, VS Code, Xcode, and browser integration, fitting directly into your existing workflow.</li><li>Automated Audits: Continuously checks for issues like color contrast, missing alt text, incorrect spacing tokens, and more, providing a solid foundation for quality assurance.</li><li>Evidence Capture: Every audit generates detailed evidence, including severity, location, and expected vs. actual values, crucial for designers, engineers, and auditors.</li></ul>Parlance helps maintain design integrity and accessibility, ensuring your product remains consistent and user-friendly across all platforms.

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<h3>Pacer &amp; Pacer Coach: Seamless Nutrition and Fitness Tracking</h3>Pacer is designed as a calm and intuitive protein and calorie tracker for individuals managing their nutrition and progress. It simplifies the process of logging meals and monitoring key metrics like protein intake, calorie balance, and eating windows. The app integrates seamlessly with Apple Watch to automatically track activity, feeding into the calorie balance calculation. Pacer presents daily progress with clear, easy-to-understand visuals, such as a calorie balance gauge and color-coded rings for macronutrient adherence. Weight trends are displayed over time, offering a realistic view of progress without the pressure of daily fluctuations.Pacer Coach is the dedicated companion app for trainers and coaches. It allows them to set personalized daily protein and calorie targets for each client, which are then directly reflected in the client's Pacer app. Coaches can monitor their entire roster of clients from a single view, with clients automatically sorted by their adherence status (On track, Steady, Needs attention, At risk). This enables coaches to provide timely and targeted guidance, preventing clients from drifting off track. The system emphasizes a shared plan, ensuring that what the coach sets is precisely what the member sees and tracks against.<ul><li>For Members (Pacer):<ul><li>Track protein, calories, and daily progress with a calm interface.</li><li>Visualize daily standing with clear calorie balance and protein targets.</li><li>Monitor eating windows and daily habits with a simple checklist.</li><li>View weight trends and adherence over weeks for a realistic progress overview.</li><li>Integrates with Apple Watch for automatic activity tracking.</li></ul></li><li>For Coaches (Pacer Coach):<ul><li>Program and assign daily protein &amp; calorie targets per client.</li><li>Monitor client adherence and attention states at a glance.</li><li>Review weekly adherence, workouts planned vs. done, and add check-in notes.</li><li>Manage an entire roster from one view, with clients sorted by attention needed.</li></ul></li></ul>Both applications operate on a single shared plan, creating a cohesive experience between coach and client. The system is built with privacy in mind, with native apps storing data in the user's private iCloud. A free nutrition calculator is available now, with iPhone and Mac apps for both Pacer and Pacer Coach currently in development.

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Scence is a screen printing kit for the everyday user.

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This was live brief given to us by the Valletta 2018 Foundation where me and my classmates in the BA Degree in Graphic Design and Interactive Media had to create an architectural projection mapping. After 2 and a half months of hard work, this was the final product. I was in charge of 2D graphical design