In 2020, I spent weeks looking for a space to publish my writing. The experience of publishing online was, and still is, quite distracting.
I wanted to find a calm and non-intrusive place, focused on legibility and centering the content of the writing as the main piece of each page.
At the time I had just finished a course in HTML and CSS, so I set out to exercise my design and developer skills and created a website for my writing. I published it using GitHub pages. I loved it, and surprisingly after four years, I still do.
The challenge then became publishing. In my old setup, that meant hand formatting every paragraph in HTML, pushing to GitHub, add a new title in the index which frankly took away some of the fun.
The web continues to be crowded, distracting and confusing. I no longer use my new blog and I'm back to square one in finding a place to consolidate my writing. I want something enjoyable, simple, intuitive.
Now more than ever, I continue to believe that we need calm technology.
The driving question behind my old website continues to be strong: what would be the minimal version of a blog?
After multiple explorations, I kept iterating on the importance of white space and uncluttered text. This is one of my favorites and the one I developed as a prototype in Framer.
Sketches from the exploration phase.
Figuring out the layout and negative space.
Some explorations using the concept of time to show each post.
