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Zipline: Prototype Deployment

Role
Senior Design Technologist — designed and built the deployment skill
User Problem
Sharing a working prototype with stakeholders required setting up staging servers and managing URLs manually.
Business Problem
Demo prep friction slowed UX research cycles and delayed stakeholder feedback loops.
Impact
Adopted across Google UXE for rapid prototype sharing. Reduced demo prep from hours to one command.

What it does

Zipline is a Jetski skill that solves one of the most persistent friction points in UX prototyping: getting a working link into someone else’s hands. Sharing a prototype with stakeholders or UX researchers typically means setting up a staging environment, configuring a server, managing URLs. Zipline reduces that to a single terminal command.

It packages a local prototype and deploys it to a secure, public-facing URL. UX Researchers get stable links for user studies. Stakeholders get live demos instead of static recordings.

How it spread

I originally built it for the Gemini Enterprise Agent Builder team, but published it as a shared skill for the entire Google UXE community. Multiple teams adopted it as their standard for rapid prototype sharing. Demo day prep went from hours of manual deployment to one command.

Zipline deployment automation

Artifact Evidence

📎 zipline-jetski.mp4

Project: zipline-skill

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