#design framework

[thisisgraeme]

Te Ara Whakamārama: 4 Powerful Steps to Transformative Te Ao Māori-Inspired Development

Explore the transformative "Te Ara Whakamārama," a framework with four stages inspired by Māori wisdom. Embrace a journey of innovation from the conceptual void to the luminous world of realization and beyond. Dive into the essence of Te Ao Māori and unlo

Te Ara Whakamārama or The Pathway to Enlightenment By Conny Huaki and Graeme Smith The journey of creation, from the first seed of an idea to its full expression, is a sacred and transformative process. “Te Ara Whakamārama,” or “The Pathway to Enlightenment,” is a design and development framework that mirrors the natural progression from dusk till dawn, a symbolic representation of the journey…

[des302-capstone-blog-project]

04/07/2023

I have define my specific methodology, which is the triple diamond method. I have map the stages of methodology to a timeline with a brief explanation why the methodology I have chosen is appropriate for my project. I have indicated key milestones and sub-phases across the remaining weeks of the semester.

[starcorvid]

Lil gabbs doodle

[nixcraft]

Do you need to build a static website for fun or profit?

Try the Simple.css Framework. It is a CSS framework that makes semantic HTML look good.

A good-looking sans-serif local font stack.

Typographic best practices.

Automagic flipping to dark mode.

Fully responsive.

Sensible defaults that format standard + HTML elements.

Super lightweight (10k css).

Give it a try @ https://simplecss.org/ (my home page https://vivekgite.com for live demo).

[exandrianpunk]

thresher pt. 2 felt like all the cinematic tension of calamity compacted into AN HOUR AND A HALF!?!?!?

[sendmyresignation]

every time someone mentions the way music-related algorithms work in the best interests of major labels pushing their artists for their own gain and therefore are often embedded with bias and cut off new avenues of discovery everyone comes out of the woodwork to mention "well, anecdotally to my specific circumstance, I've discovered (5) new artists with sub-one thousand regular listeners completely detached from any information or scene or cohesive idea of taste on my weekly currated playlists so therefore algorithms actually work amazing" like what are you talking about. can we be serious please.

[tearlessrain]

started watching Lucifer because I like to have a few different shows in rotation (I knew nothing about Lucifer so imagine my surprise when I discovered that I was taking a break from my crime procedural about a hypersexual british weirdo with daddy issues who consults for the american police by watching... yeah)

but this show is really frustrating to watch because it feels like it's constantly holding itself back from its own potential. every once in a while they do a scene or even a whole episode really well and you see a glimpse of what the show could be. sometimes there are single shots where I'm like "wait that was good" but they always pull back into their safe quirky crime show box. they've got The Literal Devil as a protagonist and when they actually remember to do things with that from either a narrative or characterization standpoint it's great, but about 70% of the time it feels like they're trying to be another Elementary for some reason, which is... and odd choice and a terrible mistake because you really don't want to ape another show's gimmick closely enough for comparison unless you can actually pull it off and Lucifer cannot pull it off. there's also this odd sense that they're trying to somehow write a character whose main strength is his unique understanding of how humans work, and whose primary quirk is his inability to understand how humans work.

also the classic "the bisexual woman character is only bisexual on screen when it's hot and the bisexual man character is only bisexual at all when we need a punchline" thing is pretty severe in this one. which is kind of insane because I can't think of a context in which it would make more sense to play up a bisexual character even if you're only doing it to shock your straight audience. it's. the protagonist is The Devil. and you're being cowards about it.

I don't want to say I expected more because I was not expecting it to be good in the first place, I just thought it would be bad in a less milquetoast way.

I'm still watching it because 1. I need something less good than Elementary to have on while I'm doing art/modding, and 2. I have to know if it will ever get over its identity crisis and turn into a good show.

anyway this has been "unprompted rants about decade-old shows with tearless" tune in next time when I finally get around to watching hannibal probably.

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

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[ouroborosorder]

What's Masks?

love languages don't exist but if they did this exact question would be mine

Masks is a rules lite ttrpg that recreates the "Teenage superhero" genre, stuff like Teen Titans and... uh. Spiderverse? I'm gonna level it's not my favorite genre, which says a lot about how good the game is that I still adore it more than anything else.

It's easily, easily my favorite ttrpg of all time, and it's extremely obvious how much it has influenced the way I approach ttrpgs and the way I write my own games. Every part of the core systems is so fucking smart. The way your stats are in flux as your identity shifts and you grow as a character, the way that the Moment of Truth system literally lets you hijack control of the narrative away from the GM, the way that every character has a natural timer until they have to become an adult and leave the narrative - it genuinely just Works. I adore this game with all my heart.

[dashalbrundezimmer]

maybachstraße // köln neustadt nord

for me, the railway bridge over maybachstrasse is always a rich and inspiring source in terms of different lighting situations. i hope that it will be preserved with its columns and clinker walls for a long time to come and not fall victim to redevelopment as a boring concrete monolith.

[librarycards]

i think that some peoples' reaction to that person's post about addiction/recognizing problematic substance use was really disproportionate, not least bc the op was informed about/by disability justice principles and outwardly advocated/advocates for autonomy for all people, pwud included. the fact that people find addiction - physical/behavioral dependance - a useful shorthand for a constellation of e/affects that can cause long-term distress does not equate to an unproblematized acceptance of pathologizing frameworks of nonnormative behavior. op identifies as an addict themself, and i think we as Madppl just have a lot to reckon with as far as whose lived experiences & perspectives are valued versus dismissed, whose are taken in bad vs. good faith.

[starheirxero]

I cannot describe just how feral your "It runs deeper" au makes me.

I am positively in love with it, please give us more-

-Stardust

OH?? MY STARS???? I'M ALSO FERAL ABOUT MY OWN AU AAAAA!!!

I am literally ALWAYS overjoyed to share what I can about IRD, it's such a passion project of mine you have no idea!!! So here's some KC concept art + my insanity about one of Eclipse's scenes + and actual snippet of (potentially) one of Bloodmoon and Lunar's interactions :3

[vulshokbersrker]

I have been doing A LOT on this project

I finished the pages related to seasons/expansions. I have finished the lore book page and all the sub pages for them.

ALSO

There are a lot of things I need to do to make it faster and more efficient. But that can wait until after all the pages and functionality is in place.

I need to finish the home page (no idea on that yet.) The archive pages for lore entries and grimoire cards. Fixing/updating the search page. A FAQ page and a sitemap. THEN it will be time for error checkers and stuff.

(I have no idea on how to make the searching faster and to find more entries unless I make a tag system. Which will have to be manually done most likely)

Also also,

I have been making a guide for accessing the Bungie API that might help new coders.

[celestiquetower]

Environment design: mental framework for designing buildings

A building isn’t born from blocks. It’s born from attention.

For a long time, I struggled to draw cities. No matter what thumbnails I sketched, they didn't feel right. They felt boring and soulless. Until I decided to treat each part of the scene with care. I rushed, quick to iterate my thumbnails. I thought the more I iterate, the bigger the chance to find the layout I liked, that something would click. But the issue wasn't the layout - it was the soul. I drew boxes, but they felt empty and weird.

Out of desperation I decided to draw some buildings separate. Frontal. I didn't know what to do, so I stayed longer on one building — added shapes, cut shapes. Varied the size of shapes. Doors, windows, columns, patterns... Until I realised — this finally felt right. It transformed from a soulless box into a beautiful building.

I noticed the result. I stopped. I reflected — how did I feel during the process? I didn't rush. I tended this one thumbnail with care — like I had all the time in the world to care about it until it becomes beautiful, like it has a soul — and it got one.

The problem wasn't the layout. I can't create a scene that feels like something with big shapes alone, even if I try to make them interesting. Generally, city street layouts are pretty boring — streets are just straight. Buildings are just boxes. Sometimes shaped more interesting than streets, but still boxes. The detail is what makes the scenes feel alive — not the layout.

Intended outcome feeling:

Sci-fi + Hawaiian. Eerie symmetry and order. A city that feels "too clean".

Technical skills applied in this path:

Perspective (behind the scenes, for composition thumbnails. Not that important for designing buildings if you do it in frontal).

Shape language

Color psychology

Color contrast

Value contrast

Composition in design (focal point = most contrast)

Big, medium and small shapes

Scale indicators (the little human figure at the sides of the buildings so you can imagine how big the building is)

If you’ve ever felt like your environments were hollow, maybe they’re not empty. Maybe they’re just waiting to be seen.

[qrevo]

i really need to make my neocities.... i gotta start somewhere..... pain and suffering......

[july-19th-club]

like somewhere in me the wires between 'excitement' and 'dread' got mixed up and now they feel exactly the same and i cant enjoy stuff without taking a dozen steps to reassure myself that something bad is NOT happening and it's all fine we're just going to the movie theater to have a popped corn and see a big screen. it's ridiculous. it's outrageous. it's unconscionable