I wanted this new site to feel like a personal space. The feeling of a clean room. Fresh sheets. And scalable enough to handle any type of content I throw at it.

There's space for both quick thoughts and deep dives. I want to share more — I noticed it's a trait shared among almost all of my favourite designers.

I find I'm often at my most creative when I have constraints to work around. I started with the rigid, windowed form factor and then looked for ways to be expressive within it. Using a single font size meant I had to be intentional with colour and space, and capping the project to one weekend helped with scope creep.

I cut a list/gallery view toggle, dynamic new content indicator, item counts, fancy blurs etc.

I originally planned to have the whole experience fixed within the viewport. I like how easy it is to stay oriented but converting that into a mobile experience is never fun, and working with svh/dvh in Framer can be buggy.

I also sketched out a more textured, scrapbook style WIP page and experimented with some 3D pins and tape in Figma but ended up simplifying this into another media type for the shipped page. I have a Lab page in the works for framer.today that will house most of my half-baked experiments anyway.

Next I'll slowly add more content and some of the cut features over the next few weeks. I might package this up as a template for others to use if there's interest.