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Heather Coles™️
@heathercoles.bsky.social
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UX/UI Design · Product Design · Graphical User Interface Design (GUI) · Generative Art
~gets nerdy about accessibility & video games~
Will repost interesting game slices.
✨she/her✨
#a11y #AltTextPoetry
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heathercoles.bsky.social
Don't listen to them Cloud Dancer ☁️ 🪩
Warm off-white IS a color.
Never doubt yourself, I'd kill and die for you.
#Pantone #CloudDancer #Pantone2026 #PantoneColorOfTheYear
Screenshot of a color picker showing a nearly pure white square next to a slightly darker off-white square with a faint amber-yellow tint; emphasizing how the selected off-white sits just a breath warmer and creamier than pure white. The numeric fields read H 42°, S 2%, B 94%, RGB 240/238/233, CMYK 5/4/6/0, and hex #f0eee9.
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
It her. Hero.
nz.news.yahoo.com/woman-hailed...
A 3 frame image macro. First frame: a man stands in the subway holding meta glasses in two pieces, his hands circled in red. It says “Pls help me find her. She broke my meta glasses with her bare hands.” He’s got a giant grin on his face though, because he knows he was being a perv. Second frame: surreptitious photo of a woman in the subway car, the clear plastic wall between them, the woman just noticing the creeper is recording her. Third frame, a full shot of the woman on the subway, also clearly taken without consent. The subway woman looks identical to the OP’s character, sans knight armor, which is implied.
December 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Yeah, same gradient.
I've been trying to diagram this nearly imperceptible 1% difference and I don't really think I'm being successful lol
Did a cool colored variation in there for you @paulstoffregen.bsky.social
rounded square vs. squircle diagram. They are hardly different. This is the cool colored version, an aqua but bottom lit. rounded square vs. squircle diagram. They are hardly different. This one is pink, light on dark. rounded square vs. squircle diagram. This one has zoom and the shapes duplicated in the lower right. My original diagram of a rounded square an a squircle. It's just two pink gradient shapes next to each other. Trying to tell the difference is like a "spot the difference" game from Highlights magazine. But the rounded square's widest points are parallel lines while the outer edges of the squircle are subtly cured all around.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Everyone: “It’s a rounded square.”
Nerds 🤓: “Well actually…it’s a *squircle*.”
A shape between a square and a circle (a superellipse). Softer, calmer, continuous curves everywhere.
Rounded squares got rounded-er. Now they’re baked into the code that builds the web.
Tiny curve, a new global standard.
Two shapes, very similar, one labeled "Rounded Square" one labeled "Squircle". It is difficult to tell but if you look very closely, the sides of the rounded square are flat in the center. The squircles' sides bulge out ever so slightly, leaving a curve all around.
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Politician toddler, in a suit and tie, joyously swings a shiny chefs tool on the floor of congress. They're pretty tall (giant?) for their age, their chin is at desk height. Not a real photo.
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Tell me your favorite scammy quality of this email.
My fav is the cloud emoji pretending to be a logomark.
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Photos ◦ Contacts, calendars, and reminders ◦ Notes, documents, and app data ◦ Device backups (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
Final Reminder:
Your data will be deleted if no action is taken by Friday, Nov 21 2025. To prevent data loss, please update your payment information immediately and continue enjoying seamless access to your files across all Apple devices. Update Payment & Secure My Data Now! Thank you for choosing Cloud. - The Cloud Support Team You may unsubscribe at any time. Unsubscribe Design Studio Fabrics - 340 Craghead St Numb 200 Danville, VA 15264 US If you don't want to receive this type of message, you can unsubscribe from this list a[censored]4@gmail.com You may unsubscribe at any time. « Reply all → Forward
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
It's like some kind of sick joke, how eagerly platforms abandon artistic integrity the second artwork becomes pixels.

Imagine a museum hanging an exquisite oil painting, spray painting black across the bottom third, then stamping a thumbs up and hamburger menu icon on top. 1/4
The Mona Lisa is coated in 3 inches of vaseline, sand scattered on top of it. The bottom third of the painting is occluded by a black gradient and two giant, obtrusive engagement buttons, a thumbs up and a three lined hamburger menu. A crease has been folded at Mona Lisa's neck.
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Lets hear it for the vintage, Hollywood, horror, Art Deco pumpkin glow-up.
#AltTextPoetry
Screencap of dueling pumpkin art styles. One clearly loses. Aesthetic: classy, vintage Hollywood horror. Right side: primitive, 2D mistake. Left side: Art Deco encapsulated, thoroughly refined. Left details: a jewel-cut jack-o’-lantern, faceted like a geodesic crystal, grins with knife-edge menace. Neon purple skin with toxic-green and warm orange eddies cover every side, dramatic lighting rakes across them in stippled gradients. A faint vapor curls from the artifact's jagged mouth, it's exhaling your secret. Vibe- Rave colors invite me to trespass in a glamorous crypt, I get an angular jolt that feels unsafe yet ceremonial and fascinating. Right details: a circular-ish, vector pumpkin made of layered orange gradients that don’t quite line up. A perfectly even zig-zag mouth sits off-center; derpy triangle eyes point out to the sides, the face goofy-sad. Radial pin-lines flare from the crown like an Art Deco sunburst; the stem reminiscent of a green jelly-bean with two vertical rays through it, the straight, vertical lines contrasting the curves, the average of the two would make a perfect stem shape. Vibe- It’s trying so hard to be spooky it loops back to tender, an awkward mistake whose off-center grin is endearingly bad. If you squint and tilt your head, their mouths match and so does their Art Deco energy.
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
I forgot to bring my AR-glasses concept art to Bsky. Why can’t we have transparent smart glasses with a single lens, and why can’t everyone see the holograms in everyone’s glasses? Why shouldn’t smart eyewear be thinner, lighter than current wireframes?
#Futurism #ConceptArt #AR #Wearables
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
heathercoles.bsky.social
I’m changing Jimmy’s look. He’s gotta be as edgy as Sinclair makes him out to be so I gave him guyliner, an Andrew WK bloody nose and a Thriller jacket.
Badass lookin mofo Jimmy Kimmel. Wait is this Jimmy Kimmel? I hadn’t seen him with guyliner, an Andrew WK bloody nose and a red, leather, Thriller jacket with spikes sticking up from the shoulders. His head is cocked back like he does not give a FUCK
September 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
heathercoles.bsky.social
I know you all were on the edge of your seat to find out my new waifu in Story of Seasons. Sorry Sophie. Sorry Maple. My heart belongs to the town goth girl. None of the guys have given me the romance option yet lmao #AltTextPoetry
@storyofseasons.bsky.social
three frames, photos of a screen showing a scene in the video game Story of Seasons- Grand Bazaar for Switch 2. In the scene two cute anime girls are facing each other. The goth one, June, timidly asks "... So? Don't leave me hanging. How do you feel about me?" and the player's options are "I've fallen in love with you" or "You're a great friend." In the final frame the goth girl leans over, smiling and says "Let's see what this town has to offer, Badass. Together." Next to June's name is a half filled heart. Most of what follows will be character descriptions: in the first frame, you see the player character from behind. Her blond hair with pink ends is in a high ponytail with little cyan colored ribbons decoratively holding her bangs in place, the ribbons crossing to form an X. She wears a black, mens suit. June has a blue bob haircut with bangs that come down in the center. Her irises are red. She wears a gray and navy colored, elegant gothic lolita outfit, a frilly dress with a billow-y collar. You hope you'll never have to break her heart.
September 27, 2025 at 5:12 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Recent piece. Not sure it's done #EatTheRich #candy
Thanks www.sweetmickeys.com !
Hyper-colored candy and sprinkles writing out the words "EAT THE RICH". Each word is underlined in candy necklaces, each letter is made of many, round, multi-colored sprinkles, outlined in long gummy ribbons. In each corner, a gummy peach ring, the border is gummy worms, candy corn is pointing in from the edges, a gummy mouth with a hard candy heart shoved inside it and gummy mustache, each side of the 'stache is shaped like a coke bottle, a repeated pattern of two different kinds of straight, 1-2 inch candies radiates out from words in the center. Between the letters, gummy fish. It all lays upon a drawing done with multi-colored conte crayons, echoing the shape of the overlaying candies. Candy maximalism. You don't know whether to gobble it all up or vomit.
September 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Oh no, I’m at the point in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar where the love interests want to lock in. The ginger, mayors daughter has the hots for me but I have commitment issues. Just because I give you mint flowers & pickled garlic doesn’t mean I want to be exclusive. Hate the game, not the playa.
A photo of a screen showing a scene in a cute life simulator/farming game called Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar. Two characters stand facing each other, on the left Sophie, a pretty, ginger, NPC with long wavy hair and a shy expression and on the right, the player character, another pretty girl (🏳️‍🌈) with long hair, blonde on the top and pink at the bottom, in a ponytail, in a dapper, formal, black, mens suit with a white, collared shirt and black tie. She’s a high-femme stud. Cute little Sophie, whose name has a half-filled heart next to it, is asking “How do you feel about me?” Two dialogue options appear in the center between them. The first: “I’ve fallen in love with you.” and the second: “You’re a great friend.” A cartoon hand cursor points at the first, selected option which is highlighted in blue. Behind them a blurred, cartoonish, grassy scene with trees, bushes and a sign with a cow on it. The word “AUTO” partially covers the top right of Sophie’s dialogue, indicating the prior cut scene was set to play automatically. Most all that follows will be description of Sophies character design: her hair has a small, single braid in it. She wears a green milk maiden’s hat with lacey white details along the under side of the brim, little white flowers tucked in top of the brim and a yellow bow that hangs down from the back, a dainty strawberry necklace and dress with a generous yellow collar that matches the bow and brown, lace-up front top with green sleeves that match her green, billowy, striped skirt and green hat. She has big brown eyes with curly anime eyelashes that end in cute little dots. You’re about to break her poor little heart because you’re into the town goth chick.
September 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Shameless self promotion for an article I wrote about my favorite rejected Magic Leap grant, an Augmented Reality shrine building simulator: Shrine Sandbox
Here's a link to the article-
www.linkedin.com/pulse/draft/...
September 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Oddly enough, the first 2/3 pics I generated were guys. I think they're messing with gender distribution on the back end, especially since it put them in tutus. It looks like they do get a little more butt than the ladies but still not really anatomically correct and I guess they're wearing thongs?
Two similar graphics with men as ballerinas in tutus (I don't think the menu usually wear tutus). They're turned around and their legs do meet before the skirt making what could be a butt but they don't quite have butt cheeks and they have no leotard, it's just bare skin so I guess they're wearing thongs. The skirts and the leotards/shirts above the skirt are not pink, they're normal menswear colors.
August 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
heathercoles.bsky.social
This is the future we live in: I go around drawing tushes on ballerinas because the computers are too prude. What is my life?
Two nearly identical ballerina graphics, they're turned around, facing away. The first doesn't have a butt, the legs just keep going straight up into the tutu skirt with a serious thigh gap where a tush would be. The second has the tush drawn in so as to follow basic laws of anatomy and physics.
August 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Playing with RunwayML today, comparing it to the Turntable feature in the new Adobe Illustrator 2025 beta. With this one "Raptured by the Singularity" RunwayML came out way ahead. Probably due to the amount of rasher detail.
August 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Trying out the new "Turntable" that Adobe put out for vector art in the beta version of illustrator 2025, combined with frame interpolation within RunwayML's standard suite. A fun lil tech demo that sometimes works. Added music to feed the algorithm. 🍔 #DemoScene
August 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Amy Winehouse fanart.
A very biblical looking AI illustration of Amy Winehouse. A golden halo encloses her head and beehive hairstyle. She's got her signature cat-eye makeup. The halo is disc shaped ala ancient Babylonian art. She also glows. She's got some white lilies in her hair. Beyond the edges of the halo is a purple mandala pattern as well as some mandala patterning inside the golden halo.
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Anyone interested in trying the turntable, this is the graphic I provided it with.
A cute tabby made of vector shapes, its mostly pink with purple stripes, a white snout and a purple-ish pink nose. Its eyes are big and round and shiny.
August 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Adobe's put out a turntable feature in illustrator (in beta now) to make 2D vector graphics look 3D.
I used that plus a bunch of tweening in RunwayML to do this lil animation. Def not perfect but the best 3D I've ever managed to do. The game is circus themed, to explain the ridiculous music.
August 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
SIMPLY TOUCH THE FACE OF GOD.
The words "well, no it's not a hard concept. Just make the game good" have been cropped from a comment by some douche on LinkedIn. The second sentence is larger. Surrounding the roughly cropped text is a bubbly, rainbow cloud framing the words, further glorifying this profound insight.
August 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Lol Xcode has a 3.1 out of 5 star rating on the app store.
A diagram of the reviews of Xcode. 5 stars is the biggest bar, 1 star is slightly shorter, and 2,3 and 4 have very tiny bars. Clearly this is a polarizing product and is just barely better than it is worse.
August 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
heathercoles.bsky.social
Is this website LinkedIn or OnlyFans?
What is this weird censorship?
I know LinkedIn is traditionally exploitative but the teasing blur has XXX social network vibes.
I don't need a subscription to your sex club LinkedIn.
a crop of a screen capture of LinkedIn's interface showing 4 blurred out profiles. First it says "Who your viewers also viewed" then an eye emoji next to "Private to you" smaller and in lighter gray. Then there is a profile picture that has been blurred out next to the words "Executive Director in the Maritime..." with a button below it that says "View". That is repeated 3 more times, each incomprehensible profile pic next to the words "Executive Director in the Advertising..." then "Business Owner in the Media Production..." lastly "Creative Designer at Meta". The colors are bland and boring. You feel the fluorescent office lighting on your skin and you wanna go postal.
August 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
heathercoles.bsky.social
New visualization for my website.
August 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM