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Here Lies Average – Gutted for Parts.

Jessica · 08/25/2025 ·

We Gutted It for Parts.

A war cry for builders who are done pretending “good enough” is acceptable. This is what it means to design like your credibility depends on it—because it does.

☠️ RIP to the Half-Baked

Let’s be clear: I don’t ship vibes. I ship systems.

Design? It’s not your footer. It’s the full stack:

  • The object model
  • The data integrity
  • The UI flow
  • The NFRs that actually mean something in prod
  • The total experience across edge cases you didn’t even think of

Design is how it all works. Not just how it looks.

And when it doesn’t work, I don’t write a ticket. I gut it. I rewire the damn architecture until it’s clean, elegant, and fast.


🧰 I’ve Seen the Damage

  • Fragile UI built on bad assumptions
  • APIs duct-taped together with hope and deadlines
  • Logic that only runs right when the stars align
  • Dev teams who never read the NFRs

This is not acceptable. And it’s not uncommon.


🧠 Vicious Clarity: I Don’t Build to Please. I Build to Perform.

People say they want “user-centered design.” Cool. But what they really need is system-aligned impact that doesn’t collapse under load or disappear in a funding round.

I don’t design for the wishlist.
I design for the workflow.
For the decisions.
For the mission.

That means I listen deeper. Past the wants. Past the politics. Down to the actual needs — the things that support:

  • 📊 Revenue-critical decisions
  • 🧠 Operational clarity
  • ⚙️ System-level stability
  • 🧭 Strategic direction

Pretty slides don’t keep your systems alive.
Your org doesn’t run on mockups.
It runs on architecture, flow, logic, and alignment. And that’s where I operate.

If you want someone to say yes to every feature request?
Keep looking.

If you want someone to rip out the noise, build what matters, and deliver systems that don’t break when it counts?
I’m already at the whiteboard.


⚔️ Leveraging Technology to Crush the Competition

This isn’t about tech for tech’s sake. This is about strategic, targeted, deliberate advantage.

Whether it’s for internal systems or customer-facing products, here’s what leveraging tech really means:

  • 🚀 Faster workflows that shrink decision time and kill lag
  • 🧱 Stronger infrastructure that scales with growth, not stress fractures
  • 🔎 Clarity-first design that reveals insight, not just interface
  • 🎯 Alignment with mission-critical objectives — not just UX polish
  • 🔐 Tighter control over data, flow, and performance

The competition is out there shipping “good enough.” You don’t have to be like them.

You can out-think them. Out-build them. Out-deliver them.

If you build smart, you win.

And that’s exactly what I do.


💀 So Yeah, Here Lies Average

We stripped it for what little it had that worked. We learned from it. We left the rest behind.

And then we shipped something better.


If you’re ready to do the same—build smarter, ship better, and stop making excuses—I’m over here with a blowtorch and a clean Git history.

Vibes Data integrity, Full stack, Half-baked, NFRs, object model

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