Tag: design
Website Pagan Symbols and Support Overhaul
Integrated mystical pagan symbols into UI and overhauled support page with new patronage components.
Mystical Symbols & Drifting Paths
Integrating pagan symbols into the website UI with randomized drifting animations.
Faol Website — Layout Refinements & Content Expansion
Refining mobile layout, adding fediverse presence, and publishing several new blog posts on Faol.
You are not your user. Except when you are.
You are not your user. Except when you are. This is a story about how I learned to be a better user of my own product.
Making RSS Discoverable is Hard
A good idea, badly executed.
Design Considerations for Moderation Tooling
Overview of thoughful and protective design of tooling for moderating user-generated content, placing emphasis on minimising the psychological effects of exposure to heinous content, while balancing efficiency, accuracy, and the long-term wellbeing of trust and safety teams. Covering techniques for the mitigation of impact where applicable.
Design Deconstruction
Design is perhaps the software paradigm most wedded to the mouse and the GUI. But there’s no reason it can’t be text-driven.
The Zeroth Loop: They Don't Quit, They Forget
Most habits don't fall apart because people quit. They fall apart because they aren't sticky.
The Science of Spotting Hidden Product Ideas
The best product ideas hide in plain sight, in your habits and everyone else's. Watch what people actually do, not what they say they want. Build for that.
The Psychology Hack Hiding in Great Products
Every message is a moment of influence. Make the nudge helpful and you'll create power users and build loyalty.
AI and the New Language of Human-Centered Design
Software has always required people to think like a computer. AI flips it on its head: people expect computers to work the way they think.
Dieter Rams 10 Principles of Design
Good design is good design, no matter what you're building.
Technical Polish — Inter, KaTeX, and Prose Styling
Swapping to Inter for better readability, adding KaTeX support, and refining prose styling.
Beyond Click Counts: Finding the Right Signals for Good Design
Click counts are noise. Real design success is measured in signals that show whether people actually achieved what they came to do.
Stop Counting Clicks
Too many clicks isn't the problem. It's a signal that your design isn't successful.
Archive Milestones & Theme Expansion
Implementing post milestones, improving archive navigation, and adding the Werewolf theme.
Design's Shakespearean Curse: Good UX Should Never Be Noticed
The best UX design goes unnoticed. Learn how invisible design shapes digital experiences, and why great designers embrace the paradox of their work going unseen.
Dynamic Assets & Music Integration
Implementing a hue-shifting favicon, dynamic embed images, and static music stats.
Content creation workflow: my writing process
Learn how I write and publish content on my Next.js site using Markdown and MDX, and a custom content creation workflow.
The Implementation of This Site
A breakdown and overview of the implementation of Vale.Rocks, how it used to be built, how it's built now, and its associated infrastructure.