Phillip Lovelace

Hi, I'm Phillip.

I'm a Senior UX Developer with over two decades of experience building design systems, engineering UX at scale, and developing accessible, intuitive interfaces with clean, semantic code. I live somewhere between design and code, turning ideas into accessible, token-driven component systems with clean, semantic markup.

My work spans CSS architecture, web components, design tokens, accessibility, SEO, performance optimization, and more recently, AI tooling and MCP development. I care about the whole picture: the design system that keeps teams aligned and the production code that ships to users.

I'm based in Southern California with my wife and two sons. When I'm not flippin' pixels, I'm probably on a sideline or in some bleachers yelling things that definitely aren't helping.


Skills & Expertise

  • Design Systems
  • UI Components
  • UX Engineering
  • Frontend Development
  • Responsive Design
  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript
  • Accessibility
  • CSS Architecture
  • Web Performance
  • SEO
  • Web Components
  • UI Design
  • Prototyping
  • Figma
  • AI Tooling
  • MCP Development
  • DevOps
  • Systems Thinking
  • Kindness
  • Curiosity
  • Empathy
  • Human

Want to chat? Get in touch or check out my portfolio.

Latest Posts, Quotes, Links & Ramblings

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Find Me in the Atmosphere

This weekend, I wired my website into the AT Protocol. It took an afternoon and one stubbornly old config file, and now my writing lives on the network itself.

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“It’s interesting how AI is good at the things I don’t understand, but is somehow dogshit at the things I’m good at…”

– Anonymous
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AI fills the gaps. Just not at depth

Last month, a Cloudflare engineer used AI to rebuild a major open-source project in under a week. Cost about $1,100. It shipped to production. Around the same time, a different Cloudflare team used AI to fork another project and silently stripped out the security protections the original maintainers had spent years adding. That also shipped.…