Lab

Things I'm building.

Tools, experiments and small products I build alongside client work. Some are live, some are in beta. Most of them start as a way to test an idea before it goes into a client's product.

The approval card from UI by Halaska: an agent pauses to ask how to reply to a customer, with three options

UI by Halaska

Beta

A UI kit for AI products, built on shadcn's foundations.

  • Paste one prompt into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex
  • Your prototype gets most of the way to looking designed
Visit ui.halaska.com

Focusboard

Coming soon

A split-flap screensaver for your Mac that shows your to-dos, with a menu bar app to add them.

  • Add and tick off to-dos from the menu bar
  • Works across two displays

Agent skills

Coming soon

Rules from the Halaska OS foundation, packaged as skills your AI agents can use.

  • Drawn from more than 300 product design rules
  • Each rule has a reason, a wrong example and a right one

Working on something that deserves better design?

Get in touch

The design engineering practice of Chris Halaska

hello@halaska.com

Based in Dubai, working worldwide