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From design to deploy in 48 hours
January 15, 2026·7 min read
A playbook for shipping high-fidelity landing pages under extreme time pressure without cutting corners on accessibility or performance.
Tight deadlines force you to strip away everything that doesn't matter. The trick is knowing what actually matters.
This post outlines the 48-hour sprint I run with early-stage founders: hour 0–6 is content architecture, 6–18 is design in Figma using a locked token system, 18–36 is build in Next.js with pre-wired components, and 36–48 is performance, accessibility, and launch checklist. No all-nighters required — just ruthless sequencing.
I include the exact component inventory, the Figma variables I set on day zero, and the three performance budgets I never break.