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    "name": "Dinesh Deva",
    "title": "Dinesh Deva — Product Designer",
    "description": "Product designer working at the seam where design meets engineering. Interfaces, systems, and the small moments in between.",
    "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata",
    "gmtOffset": "GMT +0530",
    "email": "devadinesh1000@gmail.com",
    "resumeUrl": "/resume.pdf",
    "year": 2026
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    "phrase": [
      { "text": "Every good idea starts " },
      { "text": "inside a box", "style": "serif" },
      { "text": " — the craft is knowing which walls to keep." }
    ],
    "bottom": "Assembling the good part, one rectangle at a time."
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      { "text": "I design things that feel " },
      { "text": "obvious", "style": "serif" },
      { "text": " in hindsight", "break": true },
      { "text": "and were quietly " },
      { "text": "impossible", "style": "accent" },
      { "text": " before." }
    ],
    "intro": [
      { "text": "Well hello there! I'm " },
      { "text": "Dinesh Deva", "style": "accent" },
      {
        "text": ". I design digital products — the interfaces, the systems underneath them, and the small moments in between that nobody puts on a slide. Currently turning protien shake into pixels. "
      },
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    ],
    "narratorLines": [
      "He opened the portfolio. Bold move for a Tuesday.",
      "Our subject claims he designs products. The evidence is directly below.",
      "He has rewritten this sentence eleven times. This is the twelfth.",
      "Somewhere a design system weeps. He has renamed a component again.",
      "He insists the spacing is off by two pixels. He is, annoyingly, correct.",
      "He built this entire site to avoid writing an About page. It did not work."
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    "blurb": [
      { "text": "Dinesh has spent the better part of " },
      { "text": "[ four years ]", "style": "mono" },
      {
        "text": " convincing rectangles to behave. He works at the seam where design meets engineering — close enough to the code to break it, close enough to the user to feel genuinely bad about it. He believes most design problems are actually naming problems "
      },
      { "text": "[ they are ]", "style": "mono" },
      { "text": ", and that the best compliment an interface can receive is silence." }
    ],
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      { "label": "Products Designed", "value": "14" },
      { "label": "Design Experience", "value": "04", "suffix": "yrs" },
      { "label": "Cards Collected", "value": "08" }
    ],
    "flavor": "With every feat accomplished, a new card is forged…"
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    "cards": [
      { "title": "Systems Thinker", "img": "/cards/card_01.svg" },
      { "title": "Prototyper", "img": "/cards/card_02.svg" },
      { "title": "Ships It", "img": "/cards/card_03.svg" },
      { "title": "Writes The Docs", "img": "/cards/card_04.svg" },
      { "title": "Pixel Auditor", "img": "/cards/card_05.svg" }
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  "works": {
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    "intro": "A collection of my curated works. Choose one below to view.",
    "hint": "Hover & click on projects on the left."
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    "quote": [
      { "text": "I once spent four hours choosing between two greys. " },
      { "text": "They were the same grey.", "style": "accent" },
      {
        "text": " I have never told anyone this. Until now, apparently, on a website, in public."
      }
    ],
    "attribution": "— Dinesh, under oath",
    "timeSpentPrefix": "You've spent",
    "timeSpentSuffix": "on this website."
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  "about": {
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    "objective": [
      { "text": "To make software that doesn't make people feel " },
      { "text": "stupid", "style": "serif" },
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      { "text": "Dinesh " },
      { "text": "[ 24 M ]", "style": "mono" },
      { "text": " is a product designer " },
      { "text": "[ based in India ]", "style": "mono" },
      {
        "text": " who got here the long way round — through engineering lectures he half-attended and design books he fully annotated. He likes systems that scale, interfaces that apologise less, and the specific silence of a room at 2am when the thing finally works. "
      },
      { "text": "[ still learning ]", "style": "mono" },
      {
        "text": " He is currently looking for the next problem worth staring at for a very long time."
      }
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    "pullQuote": {
      "text": "I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my protien shake.",
      "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky — Notes from Underground"
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      "alt": "Photo from Dinesh's camera roll"
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    "enjoysTitle": "Things he currently enjoys",
    "enjoys": [
      { "text": "Long walks through other people's design systems", "done": true },
      { "text": "Filter protien shake, specifically the third cup", "done": true },
      { "text": "Keyboard shortcuts he will never remember", "done": true },
      { "text": "Reading changelogs recreationally", "done": true },
      { "text": "Silently fixing the kerning on restaurant menus", "done": true }
    ],
    "hopesTitle": "Things he hopes to complete",
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      { "text": "Ship a design system that outlives him", "done": false },
      { "text": "Learn to draw hands", "done": false },
      { "text": "Read the forty tabs currently open", "done": false },
      { "text": "Say no to a project without over-explaining", "done": false },
      { "text": "Finish this list", "done": true }
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    "line": [
      {
        "text": "I'm always up for a chat about design, strange side projects, or whether that is genuinely the right shade of orange. It usually isn't. Reach me at.."
      }
    ]
  },

  "footer": {
    "tagline": "No rectangles were harmed",
    "finMark": "Gracias",
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    { "label": "Instagram", "href": "https://instagram.com/dineshdeva", "icon": "instagram" },
    { "label": "Email", "href": "mailto:devadinesh1000@gmail.com", "icon": "mail" },
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