Lucas Santhiago Portfolio

This portfolio is built to the Human Interface Guidelines rather than to web convention: the 8pt grid, 17px body, 44px minimum target, inset grouped lists and spring physics are the iOS metrics, used as a design system. No phone mockups, no drawn bezels.

A scattered online presence made it hard to showcase product depth. This site centralizes projects, tech stack, and proof of execution.

It was a single-page app, which meant the initial HTML was an empty div: crawlers, Safari Reader and LLM crawlers saw nothing. Every route is now prerendered to static HTML. That cost the simplicity of one bundle and one entry point, and bought content that exists without JavaScript. For a site whose whole argument is content first, an empty document was not defensible.

Reading the HIG as a specification for a website, not as a theme. The tells that make an interface read as native are measurable — body size, target size, separator weight, spring constants — and most of them cost nothing to get right.