Been playing around with the idea of bringing back some fancy buttons for a project I am working on. Buttons that feel alive and have subtle interaction states like patterns which glow on hover.

These are actually really complex to make in Figma and even more so in HTML/CSS due...

CSS

Figma

design

Sam Baines

• Dec 9

This type of "just commenting to try and increase my discovery score" reply (even to an ad) is driving me insane on Contra. Used to see this all the time on Dribbble too and it really drives down the value of the platform. I'm always trying to either; articulate why something...

Sam Baines

• Nov 20

illustration

FLORA

Exploring #flora still, testing out styles - painterly vs anime, thoughts?

38 voted

62%

Painterly style

23 voted

38%

Anime style

61 votes

Closed

Sam Baines

• Nov 20

My entry for the Builder.io challenge - explored how far I could get building an email editor, based on React Email, within the free credit amount. Was pretty smooth and I think it would be possible to take it pretty far with a pro account. It even managed to spit out properly formatted HTML for the email itself.

builtwithfusion

builderchallenge

Sam Baines

• Nov 19

First time exploring FLORA, trying to manipulate actual photographs into more painterly styles, trying to mimic the style from websites like Intercom. Like the node based workflow and the iterative nature that brings.

landscape Illustration

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