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New blog post on Substack: “The Real Mad Hatter Serves a Wondrous, Imaginative Tea” — a short, evocative piece about crafting a career from curiosity, grit, and a willingness to entertain risk and wonder. A reminder that creative work often looks like joyful chaos. Read here: https://wix.to/IkeTg0v
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The Real Mad Hatter Serves a Wondrous, Imaginative Tea
Call me insane for believing in the career I have crafted for myself. I wear many hats, stitched from the symbolic blood, sweat, and tears of an ambitious fella.Watch me dance wildly around a table, offering every sweet and tart, entertaining all who come to join the party. The only true obstacle is a hare hurling dishes everywhere. Become my guest of honor.Come on down the rabbit hole. Fall for what I make possible. I’ll serve the creativity of a curious mind, where the very idea of originality
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Behind every visual identity is an emotion trying to be expressed.
Every brand, product, and creative idea carries a feeling behind it. Yet translating emotion into visual expression remains one of the most intuitive and subjective parts of the creative process.
Emotion Lab is an interactive creative playground that explores how emotions can become visual systems for creation.
Built around six emotional states, each experience unlocks its own curated visual language, featuring color palettes, gradient behaviors, and emotion-driven creative mechanics. Users can experiment, remix, and generate unique visual outcomes while staying true to the emotional character of the selected state.
Emotion Lab explores emotion not as inspiration, but as a creative framework.
Project Link:
https://untie-unit-65592182.figma.site
Community Link:
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1648425635877147408
WOW!
I'm building Until it Melts: a cozy, retro productivity space.
~~the idea~~
A few weeks ago, I was scrolling through TikTok and kept seeing videos of people studying alongside physical objects,
~like a video of melting ice or a candle slowly burning down.
I loved the idea of using these as a calming visual aid to track time.
I wanted to capture that feeling, but wrap it in the nostalgia of an old-school 2000s PC desktop to make a workspace you actually want to spend time in.
~~how it works~~
1. You input your tasks and set your session time.
2. You watch a calming visual to track your progress.
3. If you start falling behind your set pace, your tasks physically "heat up"
4. Need company? Pick a desk companion that hangs out on your screen and reacts to how your work session is going.
5. Need a break? Play a game or jot down some notes!
~~the vision~~
Productivity doesn't have to be boring. Sometimes you just need a digital workspace that feels like a cozy, retro game to get in the zone.
Can't believe how fun it was to bring this vibe to life using Figma Make.
Try it out: https://untilitmelts.figma.site
Let's get things done before the ice melts. 🧊 More updates coming soon!
okay wow incredible concept and designs
Wait, I just have one quick question.
Have you ever stopped to think about what you actually want to do with your life?
Here's the thing, it's easier to figure out than you think. People always say to follow your skills. Use what you're good at. But here's what they don't tell you: your skill and your purpose are not always the same thing.
I can relate to that a little too well.
People used to tell me I should do nails. I was good at it, so naturally that's what they saw for me. But I wasn't interested in doing that for the rest of my life. So I didn't. Now I'm here, a writer. Not because someone told me I was skilled at it. But because it's what I was called to do. Because it gives me purpose.
And that changes everything.
So here's the moral. let your voice be louder than the voices around you. You are the only one who has to live your life. You write your own rules. You run your own game. And you get to decide what that looks like.
So ask yourself this one question and be honest about it
Are you doing this because it's a skill? Or because it's what you truly want to do?
This is why hobbies matter more than we give them credit for. They're the one place you do something purely because it calls to you — no skill expectation, no performance. Sometimes that's where you find what you were actually meant to do.
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