LABS & NOTES

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Small tools for design, code and AI.

Skills, checkers and templates I’m building in public so other designers can inspect, adapt and reuse the work.

DEBORA LABS / PUBLIC REPO

Reusable workflows for design systems, Storybook, accessibility and agent-ready product work.

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LAB INDEX

Notes I’m still testing.

Writing, builds and experiments from the workbench.

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Experiment · September 2026 · 4 min read

Can you trust an agent before it reaches production?

A focused evaluation loop for replaying support conversations, reviewing failure modes and turning human feedback into the next agent version.

AI agents · Evaluation · Human feedback
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Experiment · August 2026 · 4 min read

What changed is not why.

A decision-handover dashboard, grounded in a product-team problem I encountered while building a framework at TAP.

Product design · Operational UX · Interaction design
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Experiment · August 2026 · 4 min read

Before you publish an n8n agent, replay how its behaviour would change.

A live n8n-backed experiment for reviewing prompt, memory, model and tool changes against representative conversations.

n8n · AI agents · Developer tools
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Experiment · August 2026 · 4 min read

Parallel isn’t always safe.

A decision surface for the moment parallel AI tasks stop being isolated work and need to converge into one change a developer can trust.

Agentic UX · Developer tools · Interaction design
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Build · August 2026 · 3 min read

A clearer way to browse remote technology roles.

A public, source-aware view of remote opportunities across product, UX/UI, research, design systems, engineering, data, platform and developer experience.

Public utility · Developer tools · Data products
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Experiment · August 2026 · 4 min read

When should a costly AI batch keep running?

A capacity decision model, with a separate real telemetry path that makes signal source and freshness inspectable.

AI infrastructure · Observability · Product design
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Experiment · August 2026 · 5 min read

Metrics are not decisions: reading design-system health from real signals.

An independent experiment in making repository activity, checks and maintenance signals legible enough to act on. The demo reads public GitHub data.

Data visualisation · Observability · Design systems
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Field note · August 2026 · 6 min read

Your design system doesn’t need more components. It needs better evidence.

A practical way to find repeated decisions, separate useful variation from drift and decide what a design system should actually own.

Design systems · Auditing · Governance
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Build · August 2026 · 7 min read

How I made Storybook the source of truth — not Figma.

A code-first workflow where component APIs, states, accessibility and documentation live next to what actually ships.

Storybook · Component APIs · Design systems
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Build · August 2026 · 9 min read

How to build a Figma plugin that imports component APIs from code.

A practical bridge that reads TypeScript props, variants, defaults and token references instead of rebuilding coded components by hand.

Figma plugins · TypeScript · Design engineering
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Build · August 2026 · 8 min read

How to build an agent without starting with a chat box

A practical guide to the rules, boundaries and feedback loops that make an agent useful in a real product.

Agentic UX · Product systems · Prototyping
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Experiment · August 2026 · 7 min read

The smallest useful accessibility pipeline I could build.

A practical baseline for catching component accessibility problems in Storybook before they become product debt.

Accessibility · Storybook · Testing
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