i'm yafira, a design engineer and creative technologist building soft interfaces.
NYU ITP · electrocute-ui on npm · 22+ tools at tinytinker.tools · open hardware summit berlin fellow
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- p5.js
- Computational Text
- Figma
- Design Systems
- UX/UI
- Interaction Design
- Digital Accessibility
- Arduino
- Raspberry Pi
- Physical Computing
- E-Textiles
- Fabrication
featured work
electrocute-ui
Design system and React component library published on npm: 18 design tokens, 8 components, and a live documentation site. Designed, built, documented, and shipped end to end.
also
cache
A moodboard tool where you paste, drag, and style inspiration like you actually think. Create a patch, collect your stash, keep everything cached!
tinytinker.tools
A growing suite of free browser-based tools for makers, featuring utilities for electronics, programming, color, generative text, accessibility, print, and other creative workflows.
Lumi
Speculative migraine-detection wearable taken from research to a working prototype, spanning three hardware form factors and a companion app.
Spot Mapper
Real-time collaborative floor plan tool used by 150+ participants to claim exhibition spots at ITP Camp's showcase. Admin and viewer modes, token-based access, live sync, and handoff docs.
TinkerThread
A circuit simulator for e-textiles and soft electronics, so makers can test soft circuits before stitching them.
ml5.js contributions
Open source contributions to ml5.js: custom Docsify plugins for the documentation site, adding inline code explanations and copy-to-clipboard with a toast.
Equitable Syllabus Project
Redesigned and rebuilt the Equitable Syllabus Project's website for NYU ITP as lead developer, migrating to Next.js with a new information architecture.
AirSense
An indoor air quality sensor housed in a transparent, house-shaped acrylic enclosure with a color-coded display for at-a-glance readability, paired with a live web dashboard. Rebuilt from HTTP polling to an MQTT pub/sub pipeline to support real-time historical charting.
the soft computer
A textile-based computer: four haptic felt buttons, a capacitive fabric trackpad, an e-ink display, and generative text. Exhibited at ITP's thesis show and the Open Hardware Summit Berlin.
more projects
code(3)
Useless Machines
A digital archive of whimsical, conceptual, and defiant machines, built as a commissioned client project.
Print + Code
A documentation hub for computational craft: riso-printed generative animation, a plotter-drawn machine drawing series, a generative postage stamp system, and a soft-circuits zine.
Cute Technologies
A cute tech tools blog built with Next.js and the Notion API.
design(3)
Department of Lost Circuits
A generative system that creates Riso-printable stamps from obsolete electronics.
Seedling
A tool to help people develop their creativity, designed end-to-end from research through a high-fidelity prototype.
Cosmic Snax
A snack ordering app for a movie theater, taken from user flows through a high-fidelity prototype.
electronics(3)
ribbon_logic
A handheld poetry generator that creates generative text with Markov chains, built on an ESP32-S3 in CircuitPython.
PetalByte
A flower-shaped laser-cut USB drive and generative text device running a custom pygame file explorer on a Raspberry Pi.
Puffcast
A handmade craft foam controller for Philips Hue, inspired by soft foam novelty phones of the 80s-90s.
currently looking for design engineering & creative technologist roles
