Selected work / Nick Jensen

Useful ideas. Working products.

I work across product, design, and engineering. Here’s what that looks like in a real interface and a real workflow.

Lively IconsLive demo

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Heart

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Experience, with the evidence attached

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A product you can try.

Lively Icons shows the interface, implementation choices, and my role as creator and maintainer.

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A team workflow you can inspect.

My published account explains coordinating three engineering teams across two products, including what remains with people.

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A profile you can share.

Selected experience in product engineering, commerce architecture, and technical leadership, with supporting sources.

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Inside the work

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The shipped Lively Icons browser showing search, motion controls, and a grid of named icons
Shipped interface · captured October 16, 2026Open the live icon browser ↗

A library you can explore

Search, preview motion, and choose a format in the real product.

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A workflow you can evaluate

Follow the imagery pipeline from reference assets to human approval.

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01 / Source

Product + reference

Source photography, fabric swatches, and catalog attributes.

02 / Generate

Variant candidates

Render variations; prepare catalog copy and image descriptions.

03 / Review

A person decides

Check geometry, texture, seams, and color before approval.

04 / Publish

Approved assets only

Send approved images and content back to the catalog.

Workflow illustration based on the documented approach. Generated output samples and measured quality results are not published.

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From an interface detail to a production workflow.

Products and open source

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Local development
Encrypted secrets
Deployment
Workflow illustration

SecretStash

Creator and maintainer

CLI-first secrets manager for dev teams with end-to-end encryption.

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Persona
Browser session
Findings
Workflow illustration

User Testing for Claude

Creator and maintainer

Persona-based user testing tools for Claude Code, with a Chrome extension.

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Tech Debt Tycoon gameplay: an isometric startup office and engineering team panel

Tech Debt Tycoon

Creator

A startup management game about shipping features, growing a team, and keeping technical debt under control.

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Your next step

Start with what needs to work.

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