Alex
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chromaticnova.com
Alex
@chromaticnova.com
I’m a web developer, designer, photographer, movie fanatic, music lover, snow sports addict and general tech enthusiast.

Based in Bath, UK

http://chromaticnova.com
These electric scooters in my city are a lot like gen AI:

A scourge on society, and everyone who uses them is an asshole, a menace, and a moron

…until I want to use them, and then of course they’re brilliant and great and super useful and one of the best inventions in years 😂
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Multiple people at Adobe really went "yep, that Lightroom icon looks good, no issues there - ship it!"
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Every week for about 3 years now Slack has been sending me summary emails stating that my monday-to-friday company sends all our messages tuesday-saturday 🙃

I've reported this to them multiple times, but nobody there seems to care.
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This direct correlation between screen size and information density feels like it should be illegal 🙃 #iPhone
September 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Recently re-acquired an old silver iPhone X and man, that thing was the best iPhone design by miles. The look, the size, the weight, the feel… perfection. Nothing before or after comes close!
September 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yep, dark icons on a lighter background look really skewed 🥴
September 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It sucks when features get removed. I still miss the old dashboard!
September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Technology never ceases to impress 🙃
September 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I see Next.js is still throwing up completely nonsensical errors as and when it feels like it, with zero relation to anything in my code 🙃
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Kinda wild that @vercel.com doesn't have a UI to quickly see which of your projects are gonna be affected by their service deprecations 🤯 the instructions aren't even complete 🤦‍♂️
July 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Watching Andor and it’s great, but the prominent use of this iconic building in Spain takes me out of it every time 😂
July 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The new search bar in Firefox is super useful, kinda hope every browser copies this ASAP 😅
June 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I’m probably just weird, but floating panels like this stress me out. It was the same when Figma tried it too.

I think my brain just goes “there’s stuff on top of each other instead of neatly side-by-side, and I literally cannot see everything all at once, HELP”

#macOS26 #LiquidGlass
June 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm really sorry but some of this is just absolutely wild 🤯
June 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I'm sorry but how is this genuine Apple UI design 😅
June 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
May 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
iOS apps were so much better when they all had customisable tab bars. There are SO MANY apps where I wish I could do this today!
April 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Oh 😢

#figma
March 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Bluesky does this too. So do most platforms. Gmail, iCloud Mail, and probably any other unencrypted messaging platform that you can name.
March 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Still the most batshit crazy UI I’ve ever seen
February 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
That’s a great list, many of my favourites!

A game I recently loved is Days Gone - I think it got a bit dismissed when it was released, but has grown a large fan base in the years since!
February 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
lol. lmao even. #doge
February 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Whenever I see Superbowl trending this is where my mind goes
February 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Sometimes I like to take photos of people - here are some of my favourites from 2024 📸

#portrait #photography #portraitphotography
February 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Really enjoyed creating this fully customisable colour theme for my music player! Just choose 3 colours, and it does all the rest for you 👌

#ux #ui #uidesign #webdesign #webdev #dev
January 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM