Entries Tagged - "design"

Nov 21 2022Named Web Colors Wheel

Nov 15 2022Mastodon Is Too Heavy for Its Own Good

💀 Warning: This Article Is Poorly Written

With the ongoing collapse of Twitter, there has been a lot of talk about the Fediverse, and primarily Mastodon, which in spite of it probably not wanting to be, is the flagship in the ActivityPub fleet.

I want to preface this by saying that I think Mastodon is really great software from the user side. It’s a very powerful tool and deserves all the credit it gets for it’s UI, it’s filtering features, and it’s very in-depth profile settings.

Aug 11 2022Neubrutalism: A Consideration, and Ruleset

I was recently investigating gumroad and was quite pleased with their new design system. I liked how all their features were summed up as simple taglines (“Go from zero to $1”, as an example), and how the vibrant color pallet drew me between each explanitory diagram.

At the time, I googled “Gumroad design scheme” and came up empty with a name for it. However, weeks later, I noticed Figma did a similar design for their own website. Two is a trend, so I sought out what this design system was called and found this article, which called it Neubrutalism.