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Cover Story — WOMAN Magazine Launch Issue. Cover story and editorial writing for the launch issue of WOMAN Magazine — an independent South African publication. Featured profile: Tyla. Issue theme: Modern Womanhood, Power Redefined.
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Design exploration
Tool: Figma
Grid type: Column
Design Prompt: Luxury residential interior design studio. Editorial restraint. One serif typeface. Photography as texture, not decoration. Every element earns its place or gets removed.
Client: Ruang Studio, a Singapore-based interior design practice working exclusively on private homes, penthouses, and landed properties. Four to six projects a year. Both founders on every one.
The challenge was designing a site that filters out the wrong clients before they even reach the form. Positioning, copy, and image selection do the qualification work.
Good work
eCommerce is beyond static design.
It should move, respond, and feel alive.
Designed and prototyped a fashion editorial experience that brings products into motion.
If you’re building something and want it to feel like this, let’s collaborate.
Does writing have a future?
For my Zo Computer ⤫ Contra submission, I went head-on into finally making an ecommerce library for my literary projects. One could wonder... "Why would anyone read these days? Let me parse these words into an LLM and get a fast synthesis of the message".
Of course that can and should be done sometimes, but reading will always be an end in itself - within the pages of a book there will always be a door to a personal revolution, a hero to inspire us in different ways, the questions and answers we need to discover. Reading, in the era of AI and videos is not dead - and I stand by that claim. What literature needs, is a new way to be consumed, a new method to be... userly experienced. I have always envisioned many different ways to revolutionize such an ancient format of media - a media that is slow by nature, dense by origin and as rewarding as it is challenging to be protected as a habit in the times that we live.
@Zo Computer was the technology that enabled me to accomplish my vision for a whole new kind of reading, it helped me organize, structure and distribute my books with cutting-edge computational power and a fresh user experience that is quite addictive to use - and that I'm pretty sure I will be using it for more personal projects.
Features:
Over 5 years of artistic writing; 100,000+ worth of words in content and 200+ images uploaded into a Zo Computer? Check ✅
Zo's native Stripe integration to process payments and gate content? Check ✅
Custom domain purchased just for my now dear Zo Computer? Check ✅
Creative use of Zo integrations like having my personal Gmail send purchase orders and email confirmation links? Check ✅ - Zo updating every time the agent delivered a summary was just a bonus.
Easter eggs and gifts (a free product for a friend)? Check ✅
The library is live. Five years of writing, one obsessive build sprint, and a vision for what reading can be - all waiting for you at library.thiagopatriota.com
Use code CONTRA20 for 20% off. Come find your next personal revolution.
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