Changed the button color. Company-wide. Twice.
Single-handedly convinced an entire organization that #2563EB was emotionally cold, then six weeks later that #3B82F6 was emotionally distant. Engineering shipped both. Nobody noticed either.
A Three-Hour Documentary Event
He does not write code. He composes it. He does not pick a color. He interrogates the soul of a hue until it confesses. This is the story of a man who looked at a perfectly fine button and whispered, "but what if 2px softer."
Career Highlights, Curated
Each one independently verified by Miles, the only witness.
Single-handedly convinced an entire organization that #2563EB was emotionally cold, then six weeks later that #3B82F6 was emotionally distant. Engineering shipped both. Nobody noticed either.
At The Browser Company he perfected a new-tab animation of breathtaking subtlety. Adoption: his own laptop and a hackathon judge who felt sorry for him.
An alignment issue invisible to the human eye, the design team, the QA team, and physics itself. Miles saw it from across the room. With the screen off.
Allegedly an engineering school 😤. Brings it up in standup. Brings it up at parties. Brought it up just now, somehow, through this card.
Three of the eleven were his parents — a statistical anomaly we have asked him not to explain again. Runtime: 94 minutes. Subject: light, and how it feels.
Holds the all-time franchise record for most sprints a feature has lived in 'one more polish pass.' The feature is doing great. It is not in production. It never will be.
Glowing Reviews
Quotes lovingly extracted from people who genuinely admire him and would also like a word.
"Miles once held up a release for a day because the loading spinner spun 'with the wrong intention.' I still think about it. I am also still not sure what it means."
"Brilliant guy. Truly. I just wish he'd open a PR that didn't have a 40-message thread about whether the corner radius should be 11px or 12px. It was 12px. It is always 12px, Miles."
"He showed me his documentary. It was 94 minutes of a window with light coming through it. I cried. Partly at the beauty. Mostly at the runtime."
"Working with Miles is like having a design conscience that lives in your Slack and never sleeps. The kerning haunts me now. I see it everywhere. I cannot unsee it. Thank you, I hate it, thank you."
"Max ships. Miles 'considers the shipping experience holistically.' Both are valuable! One of them is in production."
"I asked for a quick mockup. He delivered a 60-page design philosophy, a custom font, and a mood board scored to ambient music. The deadline was Tuesday. It is the future now."
The Complete Saga
Restored in 4K. Color graded by Miles. Approved by no one.
A young Miles arrives at UC Berkeley (allegedly an engineering school 😤) and discovers his life's calling: telling people their margins are uneven. They were not uneven. He felt that they were uneven. That was enough.
Joins Notion, a tool of staggering elegance used primarily to make untouched dashboards for personal goals. Here he masters the dark art of the empty state nobody will ever reach.
Six months perfecting a tab animation. The browser was gorgeous. It was poetry. It was also not the one you are reading this on, and we both know it.
The sentence no engineering team is ready to hear in a 1:1. The film exists. Eleven people have seen it. The math on the three parents remains unresolved.
A role officially defined as 'argues about border-radius values in PRs.' He accepted the title, the laptop sticker, and a sacred duty to never let a 4px shadow pass as an 8px shadow.
His rival Max considers him a 'Design Rival,' which is to say: while Max ships, Miles pixel-pushes. Two great talents, one repo, eternal balance. The button is, as of this morning, still not quite right.