Isaac Sven Manzanarez

Isaac Sven Manzanarez

is a Designer, Builder, Rocket Shipper

Product designer & design engineer

Connecticut · NYC metro · open to South Florida

Looking for a founding design role. Available now.

Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase · Figma

Work

Western Casa · lead qualification · live

Leads arrive scored.

Role
Design + full-stack build
Stack
Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase
Status
Live with one paying client, second onboarding
Date
2025 – present

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rosa-morada.western.casa
K. ESTRADA · CENTURY 21 HEAVENLYWHATSAPP
FOR SALE · SANTA ROSA FUNDADORES Casa Rosa Morada IS THIS HOUSE FOR YOU?
2 BEDROOMS2 BATHS110 M²$4,640,000 MXN
BUYER MATCH QUIZ01 / 03
What is your budget?
Under
$2M$2–4M$4–6M$6M+
0 PRIORITYRoute now. Agent notified in under five seconds.
WhatsAppnow New contact · Just finished the quiz on Casa Rosa Morada…
01ListingBuyer lands. One call to action.
Pawmates · retention architecture

Bringing the Neighbourhood together.

Role
Product designer · founding member
Scope
6 surfaces · 30 specified screens
Shift
Downloads → density as north star
Surface
Neighbourhoods · cross-surface
Field
homeHoodId
Date
2021 – present

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Neighbourhoods · cross-surfacehomeHoodId

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  • FeedGlobal “For You” only
  • MapDevice GPS, city-wide pins
  • Lost PetsPosting works, no alert feed
  • NotificationsNo hood push. Channel dark.
  • Ad targetingNot locally targetable
  • SearchNo proximity boost
Pawmates · design system

A Design System that cannot go stale.

Role
Design systems
Deliverable
tokens.js · components · guideline
Method
Shipped-app drift audit
Tokens
colour · space · radius · type · elevation
Version
as-built v0.8
Date
2025 – 2026

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tokens.js · as-built v0.8colour · space · radius · type · elevation

Change a token. Watch it land.

Atomsshipped value ringed

colour.primary
radius.card
space.4
text.title

Components

Post Lost & Found

Screen

News Feed
HoodExploreLost
Sunny afternoon zoomiesMeadowvale Park

Materials

Meet the
hoodGet the app
Retention
T.purple across three sources

Tokens

CLRpurple#7828F0
SPCspace.28px
RADradius.pill100px
CLRred#EF4444
AaTYPtext.title15px
SPCspace.416px
CLRborder#E5E7EB
ELVshadow.blur4px
CLRpurpleLight#EFEAFE
RADradius.card16px
CLRdark#1A1A2E
AaTYPtext.chip12.5px
STRborder.width1px
SPCspace.312px
CLRgrey#6B7280
RADradius.image8px
ELVshadow.alpha.12
CLRredLight#FEF2F2
AaTYPtext.meta11.5px
CLRpurpleDark#5512C4
CLRgreyLight#F5F5F7

Components

Segmented control
For YouNeighbourhood
Composer chips
PhotoPlaceAlert
Status pills

Lost & FoundUrgent

Buttons
PrimarySecondaryGhost
Post card
🐶 Maria G.Luna
☕
New dog-friendly café on Dundas West 📍 Dundas West · 15m ago

♡ 47▢ 9

Bottom nav
Home Meet Chat Discover Profile

Hover a token to see what it governs. Hover a component to see what it is made of.

NODE · my own product

A browser shaped around research behaviour.

Role
Product owner and designer
Engineer
AI build partner, working from my specs
Shipped
Prototype to public beta in 11 days
Scale
111 commits · 22 end-to-end suites
Status
v0.9.0 public beta · Mac, Windows, Linux
Date
2026 · 10

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How deep-sea animals make their own light

Three out of four animals in the open ocean can produce light. Bioluminescence is the most common form of communication on the planet, and most of it happens where no sunlight reaches.

By Mara Velde · 14 min readBioluminescent jellyfish in dark water, lit from above

Every case in full

Lab

Open-source fixes, teardowns, motion work on my own browser, and concept work.

Dorsia Executive19 Oct 2026Concept · prototype

Dorsia Stakeholders in Sync

One shared brief that keeps the assistant, executive and venue in sync. Working prototype.

NODE · node_browser18 Oct 2026In main · unreleased

CSS cannot reach a native window

NODE's tabs are native Electron views. Two ways to animate them, prototyped side by side.

NODE · node_browser18 Oct 2026In main · unreleased

Every chip has to show where it went

Pinning a keyword reorders the row. Keyboard focus travels with it.

NODE · node_browser18 Oct 2026In main · unreleased

A log should read as it is written

The agent's newest step is revealed in fourteen even jumps, not a fade.

Cal.com · coss ui12 Oct 2026Merged · 15 Oct 2026

A guardrail that covered half the motion

Dialog and Toast kept moving under reduced motion. Measured it, fixed it, kept the fades.

Vercel · streamdown6 Oct 2026Open · not merged

Vercel Suite could not detect its own failure

RTL tests pass with every directional class stripped out.

Vercel1 Oct 2026

What will it cost? Or save?

Guarding against churn at the Vercel checkout.

Pawmates · pet ID2026 · 10

A card that carries a neighbourhood

A neighbourhood app only works once enough of one neighbourhood is on it.

Credal · actions-sdk28 Sep 2026Open · not merged

The medium the message is written on is the message,

When the format goes unstated, a wrong agentic guess is silent.

Autumn2026 · 09

Flag what went wrong in service, adjust policy later.

The software can mark what went wrong; human review decides the matter closed.

Maybern2026 · 09

Conversation now lives around the numbers, not on email threads.

Numbers can shift, at Maybern the conversation will shift with them.

Credal2026 · 09

Engineering prompt engineering.

Users inventing their own structure is the clearest sign a design intervention is missing.

Regbase2026 · 09

A semantic layer for regulatory consequence

Helping find real Alpha or Delta in the regulatory sphere.

Comp AI31 Aug 2026Open · not merged

A dark theme that did nothing

All thirty-three tokens in the dark block held their Light values.

Experience

Exp.
2025 – presentW.Inter Labs · product design & build ├─ Western Casa · lead-qualification SaaS └─ Casa Rosa Morada · Client: Century 21 Heavenly
2021 – presentPawmates · product designer ├─ Neighbourhoods · cross-surface architecture └─ Design system · tokens, components, guideline
2025 – 2026Rumbar · systems & operations consultant
2019 – presentCASA Hospitality Group · founder
Four venues; Casa Mezcal acquired by investors. Rumbar Mezcal (CT) operates today, now a hospitality systems and brand practice.
2022 – 2023Swave Studios · product design · 14 months, agency client work under a manager, engineering handoffs
2018 – 2023OCAD University · BDes (Hons), Industrial Design

Every figure, with the base it was measured on

Almanac

How the work gets run, what I keep while running it, and what I am building on the side.

Almanac Method and reference, kept in one place. Open the Almanac Practice How my work gets run 3 projects · 6 rows Taste My point of view as a multi-cultural, poly-reference designer. 24 photos · 21 connections Rituals My habits for growing and exploring as a designer. Cycles The frameworks I use to engage life and work. Four cycles Design library A free, open reference I keep for my own work. NODE Reads the page you are on and suggests what to read next. v0.9.0 · pre-release What NODE is