Title says it all
Games
People + studios
- Yayoi Kusama
- Tim Rodenbröker: creative coder whose work, classes, and Discord have shaped a lot of how I approach generative visuals.
- Ian Henry: software engineer with incredible writing and deeply considered projects. Bookmark everything.
- Keita Yamada: p5.js wizard. His sketches got me into creative coding in the first place.
- Mattaniah Aytenfsu: creative technologist + storyteller. I wanna be her fr.
- Ben Elwyn: creative technologist with super clever and playful interactive work.
- Joan Westenberg: writes about tech, philosophy, and culture.
- Maxime Heckel
- Emi Takahashi
- Jeremiah (马福臻)
- Otherkind
- Worship
- JOYCO
Tools
- Easings: generate, test, and share custom easing curves.
- Easing Graphs
- kool-brushez: a drawing canvas with a grid of expressive brushes.
- Cutting mat generator
- Shake it to Shape it: SVG shape generator.
- Paper.js
- Motion Tools Pro and Tracery for After Effects (more AE plugins)
Reading
- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design, Bret Victor
- How to put yourself online, The Creative Independent
- The Art of the Impersonal Essay, Zadie Smith
- How Video Games Inspire Great UX, Scott Jenson
- 21 observations from people watching
- Ditherpunk: monochrome image dithering, explained.
- What’s In a JPEG?
- Crafting Interpreters
- Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Design fundamentals
- Thinking with Type, Ellen Lupton
- Typography Principles
- Laws of UX
- App Dissection: breaking down the design details of well-crafted mobile apps.
- Human Interface Guidelines
- The Component Gallery
Design engineering
- Web Interface Guidelines: a non-exhaustive list of details that make a good web interface.
- Design Engineer Principles: Vercel’s principles for design engineers.
- Details That Make Interfaces Feel Better
- Using AI as a Design Engineer
- Say precisely what you mean: the words designers use when they know what they’re looking at.
- Animation Vocabulary: a glossary of animation patterns, so you know what to ask for.
- Interface Craft: a working library for designing with uncommon care.
- DesEngs: a curated collection of design engineering resources.
- Spatial page transitions
Internet
- strolling.club: a web-interspace and future webring.
- Your World of Text
- typohypergraphicobject.page
- The Way of Code, Rick Rubin
- Schemas of Uncertainty
Movies
These are just my favorites on Letterboxd, I promise I’ll list more..
- Look Back: I liked it sm I wrote about it
- Saving Face: a comfort watch.
- Ratatouille: what else is there to say
Matcha in SF
- Shoji: matcha einspänner. My fav matcha in SF to date <3
- Yume Mori: yuzu miso matcha
- Tadaima: strawberry matcha
- Mind Coffee: earl grey matcha, sakura matcha
- Binge Coffee: white peach matcha
- Komeya no Bento: matcha