Work In Progress
Jean MassadKonpo’s work, wins, and lessons, straight from the design trenches. A behind-the-scenes look at how world-class design is built: fast, lean, and always in progress.
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Designing a Search Engine from Right to Left
Fyler is a search engine made for the Middle East. They answer truly localized queries like: Where can I find a good فطور spot? Something the usual suspects. don’t do very well.
Their team came to us with a clear goal and an open canvas. I...
365 Days in 120 Seconds
There’s a window for that kind of thing, and we’re pretty sure it closed somewhere around January 6th. But as the great Jimmy Buffett may or may not have once said, it’s a new year somewhere — and lucky for us, China just kicked off the Yea...
AI Tools to Try. Benchmarks to Watch. A New Project Launch.
Javier here, PM at Konpo.
I’m taking over this edition because I shared a few AI updates in our internal Slack and the team insisted they’d be useful for our wider circle too. If they can help our clients, friends, founders, and collaborat...
Paris Hilton and I are both Webby judges.
In 2025, Konpo was nominated for a Webby Award.
That felt surreal, like being invited into a room you didn’t know you belonged in.
Then this year, I’d been asked to join the other side of that room: as a judge.
My first reaction was pure...
A Constant Work In Progress
What used to be Konpo’s neat little highlight reel of polished case studies is now Work In Progress: a space to show what we’re building, fixing, and figuring out along the way
We’ll still drop the milestone recap, just with a bit of the s...
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