NorthboundRemy Okada
Stack & Process

The tools, and how I work.

A deliberate, modern stack and a process built around fixed scope, weekly preview deploys, and a performance budget we hold to.

The toolkit

A stack chosen for speed & longevity.

Lightweight, well-supported, and the kind of code your next developer will thank me for.

FrameworkReactComponent UI, 19+
FrameworkNext.jsApp Router, SSG/ISR/RSC
LanguageTypeScriptStrict, end-to-end types
MotionGSAPScroll & timeline motion
StylingTailwind / CSSDesign tokens, no bloat
No-codeWebflowWhen the team should own it
Headless CMSSanity / ContentfulStructured content
CommerceShopify HydrogenHeadless storefronts
HostingVercelEdge, previews, analytics
DesignFigmaDesign → code, faithfully
TestingPlaywrightE2E + visual regression
AccessibilityWCAG 2.2AA, keyboard-first
The process

Five steps, no surprises.

Every engagement runs the same shape — so you always know where we are and what comes next.

Discovery

A kickoff to understand the goal, the audience, the brand, and the metric that matters. We agree on scope and a performance budget up front.

A written scope, timeline & fixed quote

Design

Design in Figma — or building faithfully from your designer’s work. We prototype the key interactions early so nothing surprises us in code.

Approved designs & interaction specs

Build

The part I love. Hand-built, typed, accessible front-end with motion, against the performance budget, shown to you in preview deploys as it grows.

A staging site you can click through weekly

Launch

QA across devices, a final Core Web Vitals pass, SEO and analytics, then a careful go-live. No drama, no downtime.

A live, fast, measured site

Support

A handoff walkthrough, documentation, and the code in your repo. Then optional care — a retainer or just being on call when you need me.

Clean handoff & ongoing support, your call
The performance budget

Fast isn’t an afterthought. It’s a number.

On every project we agree a performance budget up front — a target Lighthouse score, a Largest Contentful Paint, a cap on JavaScript. Then we build to it. If a feature would blow the budget, we talk about it before it ships, not after.

The result is the kind of site that feels instant on a real phone, ranks better, and converts more — without sacrificing the motion and polish that make it memorable. The medium is the message: this site is built to the same standard.

Have something to build?

Let’s ship something fast.

Tell me what you want to build and I’ll come back with scope, a timeline, and a fixed quote. You work directly with the person writing the code.

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