projects
things I've built and made
notion templates
I design and build Notion productivity templates, then create illustrated tutorials in Figma to go alongside each one. the tutorials aren't screenshots — they're custom diagrams and walkthrough panels I draw from scratch, made to be actually legible rather than just technically accurate. each template is free.
I run the community myself on Tumblr: posting new templates, taking requests, troubleshooting setups in people's DMs, and paying attention to what people actually need (vs. what they say they need). the community has grown to 27K followers with 1800+ template downloads across the library.
designing for a specific person in a specific community — the aesthetics-obsessed, overwhelmed student who wanted her notes to be beautiful — turned out to reach further than anything I'd made for "everyone".
noodledesk.net
my personal website, built from scratch in HTML and CSS with no frameworks, no templates, no page builders — every element is something I wrote myself. I've been building and redesigning it for years.
it's where my design instincts live outside any professional brief: dense, playful, visually opinionated, internet-flavored. there's a comics archive, a games section, writing, and pages that are just me experimenting with layout and colour. the kind of site you can tell a person made, not a tool.
building it — struggling with a CSS rule at 1am, discovering that a weird old HTML trick does exactly what I wanted, iterating on the same page layout six times before it felt right — has shaped how I think about design more than anything I've formally studied.
buggy
a pomodoro timer built around an original character I designed. buggy is a small creature with a full range of emotional states — content when you're working, visibly grumpy when you're not. complete your sessions and you get to grow a garden alongside him.
I drew every pixel sprite myself: buggy's expressions, the garden elements, the background states across each emotional stage. the reward mechanic — growing a garden as you work — was my own design decision, trying to make a productivity tool feel more like a tiny game you're tending to. I built the full app with Claude Code. it was my first shipped software.
the brief I gave myself: make something I'd actually want to open every single morning.
