Product Engineer (Frontend)
Hi, I’m Nils Jacobsen — crafting interfaces with a designer's eye and an engineer's precision.
With 5+ years in startups, R&D, and agency work, I specialize in building thoughtful user interfaces, design systems, and components that are both technically robust and user-focused.
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2025
Agent UX: Why Undo/Redo Fails in the Age of AI
Why traditional linear undo/redo fails when multiple agents (AI, collaborators, background processes) edit documents simultaneously. Examines the attribution problem, proposes graph-based UX solutions, and uses an edit rate × actor count framework to determine when graph-based history is necessary.
2024
Building a white-labeled Lit Component Library
White-labeled Lit components designed to be integrated into the inlang ecosystem. These components operate across various tech stacks, making them a universal solution for building apps quickly and with good UX.
2019
UX for Luxury: Flashback California 2019
Explore my journey as a Prototyping Engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D, where I turned seat folding into a luxury experience using soft sensor technology, leading to a patented innovation.
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