Portfolio, Erik Smith
Portfolio of Erik Smith, Design Engineer & UX Designer. One interactive world per project: Transit Pulse AX (real-time transit app), Eris (local multi-agent AI), Alcove (interior-design copilot), homemade Electron dev tools, and five years of IKEA US design strategy.
Client & IKEA work
- Web Design: A local dirty-soda brand and its online shop, designed and built end to end.
- Set Design: Lead interior designer on national IKEA US commercials.
- Design Strategy: Five years of interior design strategy at IKEA US.
- Walkthrough: Web design for small brands, from first sketch to a launch you can run yourself.
Products
- Transit Pulse AX: Real-time community transit for Philadelphia, built from 5 rider interviews up.
- Alcove: Education-first interior-design copilot. Taste quiz to a shoppable, budgeted room.
- Eris: Fully local, always-on AI persona on a Mac Mini M4 Pro.
Dev tools & playground
- Ignus: An AI image-generation forge and image-to-3D pipeline across two machines.
- NitrousToken: Real-time token-quota gauges for every AI service, in the menu bar.
- Kallisti: Local-first job tracker with AI fit scoring on trajectory, not keywords.
- QRitty Cat: A custom QR-code generator with a corral of pixel cats.
- Visual Effects: When I see an effect in the wild that would earn its keep on a client’s site, it goes in here. 75 live in the drawer now, each badged with the project that shipped it.
- Knowledge Vault: Every article I've logged, distilled to a summary and a plainer title.
- Vocabulary: Words I actually use, defined plainly and sorted into planet squadrons.
Game
- Roster Select: A D&D campaign run like a video game. 22 characters, real 5e sheets.
Erik Smith, Design Engineer & UX Designer