Scott is making fun shit

Welcome, dear friend, to my little slice of the web. This is where you’ll find whatever piece of myself I have been able to plonk into the ether.

Take a look around. It’s sparse I know, but that’s the joy of a space, right? Maybe soon it’ll be a place.

da-horns-babeyyy.txt
draft.md

I am still trying to figure this out.

This site should be perpetually treated as under construction, unfinished, ephemeral, worthless, priceless, pointless, derivative, and striving to be cool as fuck.

lorna.txt
An ASCII art depiction of a dog, tilting her head inquisitively and looking sidelong into the 'camera'. Sher is a perfect little bean. She is my heart.
scott.txt
An ASCII art depiction of a man. The low-fidelity art obscures the eyes of a human who has known the contented warmth of being loved and loving in return.
big-promo-thing.md

Mindful Design

Mindful Design is my Big Thing™ and it’s all about learning to design for real humans. It’s a book, a course, a toolkit, and at some point in the near, medium, potential future a publisher of very nice web content.

socials.md

Let’s be m8s

Social media is a crumbling hellscape, but you can find me clinging on over at Bluesky until someone brings phpBB back.

If you’d like, you can pen me an email, because letters are nice.

Rest your bones and peruse some words

The Interminable Pursuit of an Anticapitalist Web

Come with me on a little journey as I try to reconcile the idea of being a staunch anarcho-syndicalist while simultaneously making graphs go up and to the right for people who only exist because the tech industry is propped up by a very special and very self-fulfilling cycle of psuedo-innovation.

On AI and the commoditisation of design

With the recent announcement of Figma's AI feature-set at the corporate vibe-fest that is Config, there's been something of a clamour to opine, positively and negatively, on the impact these features will have on designers and the industry as a whole.

Embracing contradiction in design

Contradiction is ever-present in product design. That doesn't have to be a bad thing.