software · pictures · objects

dare to imagine

Jack Li builds software, shoots after dark, and is starting to make objects. Everything he finishes lives here, under one name.

watch the reel01:24 · shot at dusk

Design System — the component library retinting itself, then a token traced and changed — design system

Last Frame — a host building one invite end to end, from postcard to finished card — last frame

Traintopia — a runthrough of the live map, the trip planner and the ride-along — traintopia

nightfall

the index

media

+ 42 frames from this reel

component libraryevent apptransit appcar magazinefilmprintcomponent libraryevent apptransit appcar magazinefilmprintcomponent libraryevent apptransit appcar magazinefilmprintcomponent libraryevent apptransit appcar magazinefilmprint

01 coding

Design System

A front-end component library that measures itself — business and ops metrics wired in at the component, styling you can swap without touching one, and AI workflows reading its own docs.

metrics at the component
hot-swappable theming
ai workflows over its own docs

Enter the library Docs

one contract, six themes

what one token reaches

drag a hue, the system follows

find a part, read its contract

120+ components documented

chapter 02 · coding

Last Frame

An event app that puts the night in everyone’s hands. RSVP invites, a live projector wall of photos as they land, itinerary, carpool, potluck — and one shared set of filters so the whole evening looks like one evening.

the preview00:58

Open Last Frame

Last Frame — the invite studio, a postcard face the host is still choosing a cover for — the postcard

Last Frame — a guest’s phone shooting the room on a numbered roll — the camera

Last Frame — the shared album, every guest’s frames of the night in one grid — the album

Last Frame — the projector wall, an edge-to-edge mosaic of every photo taken — the wall

Last Frame — three screens at the venue and the host’s phone driving all of them — the room

Last Frame — the host console, counting guests, rolls and photos as they arrive — the console

03 coding — built with my brother

Traintopia

Real-time NYC subway and bus tracking, native. Live vehicles on a 3D map, service alerts, multi-modal trip planning, and a ride-along mode that tells you when to get off. My brother built it over a summer without an internship; I brought the research, the design reviews, the 3D modeling, and the performance work.

live vehicles on a 3D map
multi-modal trip planning
ride-along tells you when to get off

Open Traintopia

live 3D map

riding a bus

trip planner

ride-along

service alerts

04 photography

Nightfall

A car magazine by subscription — chosen cars, chosen locations, photographed in the twenty minutes after sunset.

Subscribe Issue 03

cover shot — car at blue hour

detail, vertical

location

interior

drag to pan — 24 frames in issue 03

Everything else, unsorted

the index — 2019–2026

night street

ui capture

portrait, vertical

04 live · 06 next

Everything finished ends up here eventually.

print / object

detail

video still

event crowd

wide landscape

texture

studio

on set

in development

Media

Film and long-form on how it all gets made.

in development

Goods

Physical objects. Print first.

in development

Plate Hunter

In development. More soon.

in development

Chatter

In development. More soon.

in development

Marbles

In development. More soon.

in development

Mixtapes

In development. More soon.

dare to imagine with me.

[email protected] 929 355 0241

nyc / dc — northeast