Ka Wai Cheung

Side projects.

Take Two Designing the things that already exist the way I would want them to exist.

While I usually like to build whole products, occasionally, I just have a spark of an idea, a thing I'd like to improve about the things that are already around us. This site is a small curation of those ideas.


Product designer application Custom portfolio site I built as part of the application process to 37signals.

In March 2025, 37signals posted a job opening for a web app product designer. I spent a few weeks building this site as part of my application, which helped me get to the final round where I finished as the runner-up. This is a good sum up of the work I focused on from 2009-2024.


Handcoded Baseball Scoreboards A just-for-fun side project.

I love the look and feel of old-time baseball scoreboards. I also love to create things with a limited set of tools. So, here's my attempt at combining these two interests using only HTML and modern-day CSS.


Real Code A video series on some interesting design & development experiences with DoneDone.

This series is a resource for solo developers and small development teams interested in seeing real production code built by a small team, rather than high-level patterns and fabricated examples.


Shiftlist (No longer available) A seriously simple, keyboard-friendly to-do list you just might fall in love with.

Yet another to-do list app! But, what makes ShiftList different is a small set of keyboard shortcuts that help you navigate your list fast and efficiently. Great for writers, programmers, designers, and anyone else who craves focus while working on their laptop or desktop. It's gone now but here's a tutorial I made of it many years back.