Sunset Blues
@sunset-blues.bsky.social
💾 UI & UX Developer
🇺🇸 New Englander
I like to post designs that inspire me, and cool photos I captured.
🇺🇸 New Englander
I like to post designs that inspire me, and cool photos I captured.
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Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
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A sketch of Susie from #deltarune holding her axe
August 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A sketch of Susie from #deltarune holding her axe
Ralsei drinking tea
August 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ralsei drinking tea
Today I decided try the iPadOS 26 Public Beta to see how I feel about Liquid Glass and the new Multitasking system!
iPads are my absolute favorite computers, but the experience usually sucks for anything slightly complex. I’m hoping this new software can change that for me!
iPads are my absolute favorite computers, but the experience usually sucks for anything slightly complex. I’m hoping this new software can change that for me!
August 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Today I decided try the iPadOS 26 Public Beta to see how I feel about Liquid Glass and the new Multitasking system!
iPads are my absolute favorite computers, but the experience usually sucks for anything slightly complex. I’m hoping this new software can change that for me!
iPads are my absolute favorite computers, but the experience usually sucks for anything slightly complex. I’m hoping this new software can change that for me!
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I forgot about posting. Is it fun
July 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I forgot about posting. Is it fun
This week, I finished playing the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.
It is not so much a game, but rather a relaxing (and somewhat tedious) interactive exhibit.
It is not so much a game, but rather a relaxing (and somewhat tedious) interactive exhibit.
June 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This week, I finished playing the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.
It is not so much a game, but rather a relaxing (and somewhat tedious) interactive exhibit.
It is not so much a game, but rather a relaxing (and somewhat tedious) interactive exhibit.
Thoughts on Apple's "Liquid Glass" redesigns:
- The new material looks great and is refreshing to see.
- The Spotlight redesign looks awesome, but having it be exclusive to MacOS makes me sad.
- Text legibility looks bad right now – especially against complex images!
- The new material looks great and is refreshing to see.
- The Spotlight redesign looks awesome, but having it be exclusive to MacOS makes me sad.
- Text legibility looks bad right now – especially against complex images!
June 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thoughts on Apple's "Liquid Glass" redesigns:
- The new material looks great and is refreshing to see.
- The Spotlight redesign looks awesome, but having it be exclusive to MacOS makes me sad.
- Text legibility looks bad right now – especially against complex images!
- The new material looks great and is refreshing to see.
- The Spotlight redesign looks awesome, but having it be exclusive to MacOS makes me sad.
- Text legibility looks bad right now – especially against complex images!
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Love that they included buttons to easily copy their quotes to your clipboard. I'm sending these now to everyone in my contact list to inspire them
May 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Love that they included buttons to easily copy their quotes to your clipboard. I'm sending these now to everyone in my contact list to inspire them
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The cool thing about broken images is that they accept pseudo-elements so we can style them without affecting normal images.
You can, for example, have a custom error message containing the alt text with a nice visual touch.
css-tip.com/broken-image/
You can, for example, have a custom error message containing the alt text with a nice visual touch.
css-tip.com/broken-image/
May 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The cool thing about broken images is that they accept pseudo-elements so we can style them without affecting normal images.
You can, for example, have a custom error message containing the alt text with a nice visual touch.
css-tip.com/broken-image/
You can, for example, have a custom error message containing the alt text with a nice visual touch.
css-tip.com/broken-image/
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Years ago, I wrote a color library to determine if GitHub labels should have white or black text depending on label color. Now you can just use `contrast-color()` in CSS. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...
How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?
webkit.org
May 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Years ago, I wrote a color library to determine if GitHub labels should have white or black text depending on label color. Now you can just use `contrast-color()` in CSS. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...
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April 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Another great looking neo-brutalist website I found.
This is definitely the trend for modern design tools - high contrast interface with a playful vibe.
I think what does it for me though is that the colors are softer and easier to look at, so it's not as harsh on the eyes.
This is definitely the trend for modern design tools - high contrast interface with a playful vibe.
I think what does it for me though is that the colors are softer and easier to look at, so it's not as harsh on the eyes.
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Another great looking neo-brutalist website I found.
This is definitely the trend for modern design tools - high contrast interface with a playful vibe.
I think what does it for me though is that the colors are softer and easier to look at, so it's not as harsh on the eyes.
This is definitely the trend for modern design tools - high contrast interface with a playful vibe.
I think what does it for me though is that the colors are softer and easier to look at, so it's not as harsh on the eyes.
I'm liking the UI designs I've seen on digital magazines and publications lately.
I think they strike a great balance between classy minimalism and cozy playfulness.
It has personality – but doesn't feel as abrasive as the trendier attempts at adding it in.
(Example: Psyche Magazine. psyche.co)
I think they strike a great balance between classy minimalism and cozy playfulness.
It has personality – but doesn't feel as abrasive as the trendier attempts at adding it in.
(Example: Psyche Magazine. psyche.co)
April 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm liking the UI designs I've seen on digital magazines and publications lately.
I think they strike a great balance between classy minimalism and cozy playfulness.
It has personality – but doesn't feel as abrasive as the trendier attempts at adding it in.
(Example: Psyche Magazine. psyche.co)
I think they strike a great balance between classy minimalism and cozy playfulness.
It has personality – but doesn't feel as abrasive as the trendier attempts at adding it in.
(Example: Psyche Magazine. psyche.co)
A Dark Noise alternative that I thought looked really nice.
I really like the trend of using bold, serif display fonts. It always looks cozy to me, for some reason (nostalgia?)
I really like the trend of using bold, serif display fonts. It always looks cozy to me, for some reason (nostalgia?)
March 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A Dark Noise alternative that I thought looked really nice.
I really like the trend of using bold, serif display fonts. It always looks cozy to me, for some reason (nostalgia?)
I really like the trend of using bold, serif display fonts. It always looks cozy to me, for some reason (nostalgia?)
I found another example of a vertical navigation menu with a filter!
I really like this database-styled approach to organizing large content environments instead of a traditional hierarchy. I am curious about how difficult this is to implement...
Link: www.ethicaldesignresources.com
I really like this database-styled approach to organizing large content environments instead of a traditional hierarchy. I am curious about how difficult this is to implement...
Link: www.ethicaldesignresources.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I found another example of a vertical navigation menu with a filter!
I really like this database-styled approach to organizing large content environments instead of a traditional hierarchy. I am curious about how difficult this is to implement...
Link: www.ethicaldesignresources.com
I really like this database-styled approach to organizing large content environments instead of a traditional hierarchy. I am curious about how difficult this is to implement...
Link: www.ethicaldesignresources.com
I love the use of negative space on this website.
It feels like a calming version of neo-brutalism.
It feels like a calming version of neo-brutalism.
March 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I love the use of negative space on this website.
It feels like a calming version of neo-brutalism.
It feels like a calming version of neo-brutalism.
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Easily my favorite trap focus feature is nesting. You can keep trapping the focus and it will still return the focus back to the element that activated it on each level. This is the kind of features I want more design systems to be about rather than just assigning color and padding to components 👀
March 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Easily my favorite trap focus feature is nesting. You can keep trapping the focus and it will still return the focus back to the element that activated it on each level. This is the kind of features I want more design systems to be about rather than just assigning color and padding to components 👀
I've been exploring different search interfaces lately, and thought that the Heroicons website is a good example of a clean and responsive experience.
It's nothing fancy, but I feel that simple, unobtrusive tools are more satisfying than ones that try too hard to have a memorable personality.
It's nothing fancy, but I feel that simple, unobtrusive tools are more satisfying than ones that try too hard to have a memorable personality.
March 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I've been exploring different search interfaces lately, and thought that the Heroicons website is a good example of a clean and responsive experience.
It's nothing fancy, but I feel that simple, unobtrusive tools are more satisfying than ones that try too hard to have a memorable personality.
It's nothing fancy, but I feel that simple, unobtrusive tools are more satisfying than ones that try too hard to have a memorable personality.
I've been looking at a lot of educational websites lately, and I really appreciated how clean the Audubon website looks like.
They did a great job with making this feel both trustworthy/authoritative and enthusiastic about its subject. I think it was the search filters that do it for me.
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They did a great job with making this feel both trustworthy/authoritative and enthusiastic about its subject. I think it was the search filters that do it for me.
🐦⬛
March 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I've been looking at a lot of educational websites lately, and I really appreciated how clean the Audubon website looks like.
They did a great job with making this feel both trustworthy/authoritative and enthusiastic about its subject. I think it was the search filters that do it for me.
🐦⬛
They did a great job with making this feel both trustworthy/authoritative and enthusiastic about its subject. I think it was the search filters that do it for me.
🐦⬛
I found this awesome looking UI for an online magazine today.
It has a lot of personality for a relatively simple interface. I also really like their implementation of the article progress bar – the idea to include markers that indicate where the headers are is fantastic.
It has a lot of personality for a relatively simple interface. I also really like their implementation of the article progress bar – the idea to include markers that indicate where the headers are is fantastic.
March 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I found this awesome looking UI for an online magazine today.
It has a lot of personality for a relatively simple interface. I also really like their implementation of the article progress bar – the idea to include markers that indicate where the headers are is fantastic.
It has a lot of personality for a relatively simple interface. I also really like their implementation of the article progress bar – the idea to include markers that indicate where the headers are is fantastic.
A navigation bar that uses an index/database structure in addition to a very minimal hierarchy.
I have never seen a website do this before, but I think it works really well - at least on mobile. The alphabetized list is easy to scan through, and the search tool is responsive.
I have never seen a website do this before, but I think it works really well - at least on mobile. The alphabetized list is easy to scan through, and the search tool is responsive.
March 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A navigation bar that uses an index/database structure in addition to a very minimal hierarchy.
I have never seen a website do this before, but I think it works really well - at least on mobile. The alphabetized list is easy to scan through, and the search tool is responsive.
I have never seen a website do this before, but I think it works really well - at least on mobile. The alphabetized list is easy to scan through, and the search tool is responsive.
A website for finding art pieces.
I like this design because it accommodates many different search behaviors: Known-item seeking, browsing, favoriting & bookmarking, etc.
I like this design because it accommodates many different search behaviors: Known-item seeking, browsing, favoriting & bookmarking, etc.
March 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A website for finding art pieces.
I like this design because it accommodates many different search behaviors: Known-item seeking, browsing, favoriting & bookmarking, etc.
I like this design because it accommodates many different search behaviors: Known-item seeking, browsing, favoriting & bookmarking, etc.
A funny little site I found that charts out every single curse word.
The UI is surprisingly delightful and a great example of interaction design.
Link: profanity.acatcalledfrank.com
The UI is surprisingly delightful and a great example of interaction design.
Link: profanity.acatcalledfrank.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A funny little site I found that charts out every single curse word.
The UI is surprisingly delightful and a great example of interaction design.
Link: profanity.acatcalledfrank.com
The UI is surprisingly delightful and a great example of interaction design.
Link: profanity.acatcalledfrank.com