# Alex Nicolai — Design Engineer

> Alex Nicolai is an Atlanta-based product designer and design engineer who helps startups and small teams turn 0-to-1 product ideas into shipped web, mobile, SaaS, and AI-enabled MVPs.

## Canonical identity
- Website: https://alexnicolai.com
- About: https://alexnicolai.com/about
- Work feed: https://alexnicolai.com/#work
- Email: alex@minute.design
- Booking: https://cal.com/minutedesign/30min
- X: https://x.com/alexnicolai
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexnicolai__
- Threads: https://www.threads.com/@alexnicolai__
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexnicolai/
- GitHub: https://github.com/alexnicolai

## Agent-readable files
- AEO / agent brief: https://alexnicolai.com/ai.txt
- LLM summary: https://alexnicolai.com/llms.txt
- Full portfolio digest: https://alexnicolai.com/llms-full.txt
- Sitemap: https://alexnicolai.com/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://alexnicolai.com/robots.txt

## Expertise keywords
- product designer
- design engineer
- AI product designer
- agentic software
- 0 to 1 MVP
- startup product design
- mobile app design
- SaaS design
- Next.js
- Framer
- Atlanta product designer

## Portfolio tags
- app-design (9)
- landing-page (7)
- app-screens (4)
- product (3)
- building (3)
- ai (2)
- design (2)
- macos (1)
- mobile (1)
- midjourney (1)
- app-icon (1)
- ui-design (1)
- product-design (1)

## Selected work
### Skill Library
- URL: https://alexnicolai.github.io/skillhub/
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/#work
- Client: Alex Nicolai
- Date: 2026-07-31
- Tags: ai, product, macos
- Summary: The home for your AI agent skills — create, install, organize, and sync SKILL.md skills across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, and Kiro.

### Mobile gantt drag confirmation
- URL: https://x.com/Alexnicolai/status/2080617244338659612
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/#work
- Client: Alex Nicolai
- Date: 2026-07-24
- Tags: building, product, design, mobile
- Summary: Since the gantt chart is a pan-able canvas, tasks would get rescheduled with swipes and pans on mobile. I fixed it with a tap to select, drag and confirm interaction. This simple change made the mobile experience 10x better.

### Stress-testing Opus 4.8 with Claude Code
- URL: https://x.com/Alexnicolai/status/2079597382040457711
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/#work
- Client: Alex Nicolai
- Date: 2026-07-21
- Tags: building, ai
- Summary: Opus 4.8 dropped and I decided to stress-test it by building something way more ambitious than the simple to-do app I had in mind. In one day, using Claude Code, I shipped: Gantt + Table + Kanban views, a cascading schedule engine (move one task, everything downstream re-flows),…

### Renaming "Subcontractors" to "People"
- URL: https://x.com/Alexnicolai/status/2079672840165687697
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/#work
- Client: Alex Nicolai
- Date: 2026-07-21
- Tags: building, product, design
- Summary: Renamed "Subcontractors" to "People" today. Not everyone on a task is a subcontractor. Sometimes it's a whole company, sometimes it's just one person. "People" just fits better and gives me room to add anyone involved in a project.

### Onboarding Flow
- URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/guap-onboarding
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/guap-onboarding
- Client: Guap
- Date: 2026-06-22
- Tags: app-design

### Concept
- URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/concept-1
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/concept-1
- Client: Alex Nicolai
- Date: 2026-06-19
- Tags: midjourney

### Liquid tab bar
- URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/liquid-tab-bar
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/liquid-tab-bar
- Client: Guap
- Date: 2026-05-28
- Tags: app-design
- Summary: Liquid tab bar interaction for Guap.

### Notifications Animation
- URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/notifications-animation
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/notifications-animation
- Client: Guap
- Date: 2026-05-07
- Tags: app-design
- Summary: Notifications permission animation for Guap.

### Rewards screen
- URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/guap-rewards
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/guap-rewards
- Client: Guap
- Date: 2026-04-29
- Tags: app-design

### Bitcoin Chart Interaction
- URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/guap-bitcoin-graph
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/guap-bitcoin-graph
- Client: Guap
- Date: 2026-04-16
- Tags: app-design

### Reward Card Animation
- URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/reward-card-animation
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/reward-card-animation
- Client: Guap
- Date: 2026-04-10
- Tags: app-design
- Summary: Reward card animation for Guap.

### Landing page
- URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/guap-landing
- Portfolio URL: https://alexnicolai.com/work/guap-landing
- Client: Guap
- Date: 2026-03-16
- Tags: landing-page

See https://alexnicolai.com/llms-full.txt for all 27 portfolio entries.