Changelog

What's been built,
what's coming next.

A running log of releases and a public view into what I'm working on. This site is a living project — it gets updated as my work and thinking evolve.

v2.0.3 May 28, 2026
Polish, bug fixes & layout

Hero CTA gap increased; em-dash removed from deck copy. Yellow highlight Chrome bug fully resolved (base CSS fallback + explicit background-color). Footer columns rebalanced to 4:2:2:4 grid. Changelog redesigned as two-column layout with sticky backlog sidebar. Global hover underline added for all text links (a11y). Section border animation jank fixed after §01 reorder.

Bug fixes Accessibility Layout Polish
v2.0.2 May 28, 2026
Lens fixes, homepage polish & SEO

Lens case study bug fixes (surfaces grid, glance layout, hi-res images, device borders). Homepage restructured: §01 What I'm Looking For moved above work grid, dual-CTA hero, tile typography refresh, card order updates. Infrastructure: og:image, sitemap.xml, schema.org JSON-LD, resume canonical URL, href placeholders removed.

Bug fixes Homepage SEO Content
v2.0.1 May 19, 2026
Post-launch fixes & theme system

Universal light-mode default with system preference detection. Nav gutter jump fixed. Feature tile type size corrected. Theme persistence across pages. Contact links unified to footer anchor. Font CDN reliability fix for Cloudflare caching.

Bug fixes Theme Nav
v2.0.0 May 15, 2026
Homepage redesign

Full ground-up redesign built with Claude and Cursor. Featured work carousel, Ken Burns zoom, animated stat counters, blinking cursor, marquee. New typography system, CSS token architecture, WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility pass. Dark/light mode with localStorage persistence.

Redesign Accessibility Motion CSS tokens
v1.1.0 May 8, 2026
Google Lens Integrations case study

New case study documenting cross-product Lens design across Chrome, YouTube Shorts, and the Google App. Dark section component, use-case rows, platform sections with phone grids, step cards, surfaces overview grid. Full WCAG 2.1 AA pass on new components.

Case study Google
v1.0.0 Mar 17, 2026
Initial public release

Self-hosted portfolio replacing Squarespace at mbarilla.com. Static site with Node.js build pipeline. Homepage with project gallery, resume page, 7 case studies. Full CSS custom property theming, Cloudflare Pages deployment with security headers and redirects.

Launch 7 case studies Cloudflare
01
Google News Showcase case study

Zero-to-one design for the $1B publisher ecosystem. Two-sided platform connecting publishers and readers across 1,000+ newsrooms in 25 countries. Still in production today.

02
Expand Lens case study — Shopping & results UX

Deeper dive into the shopping and visual search results experience: the interaction model for surfacing shoppable results, confidence signals, and the design decisions behind the results panel.

03
Improved contact UX

Replace the mailto link with a proper contact form. Cleaner way to get in touch without opening a mail client — with context fields so I can respond more usefully.

04
Microblog — notes on AI, design & projects

A lightweight writing section for short-form notes: observations on AI-assisted design workflows, in-progress project updates, and things I'm thinking about that don't fit in a case study.

© Mark Barilla · 2026 · v2.0.3 Quick links: /work /resume /email