Design Engineer — turning ideas into experiences
Hi, I’m Missaq. I design interfaces and then build them.
Design Engineer in Solothurn, Switzerland. Twenty years of doing both, which is rarer than it sounds — and the reason a design of mine is something you can open and argue with on the first day, not a picture of a plan.
Right nowTomatino
A Pomodoro timer for the Mac menu bar that switches your Focus mode and your music with you, and puts both back when the break starts.
I wrote it in Swift, which I did not know, because what I wanted was not possible any other way — apps on the App Store run sandboxed, and a sandbox cannot touch Focus or the Music app.
tomatino.app- Platform
- macOS 26+
- Written in
- Swift & SwiftUI
- Price
- Free
The short versionWhat I actually do
I draw the interface and then I build it. Keeping both in one pair of hands means the design is something you can touch and argue with on day one, rather than a picture of a plan that somebody else has to interpret.
Twenty years of it has made me stubborn about the parts nobody notices until they are missing: spacing that holds, a layout that survives a very long word, focus states that actually exist.
Lately I build a lot with Claude Code. It changes how fast an idea turns into something you can actually hold — which is the part I have always cared about.