Cole Bemis
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Cole Bemis
@colebemis.com
Building things for people who build things
Design Engineer @notion.com
Creator of feathericons.com
Working on @uselumen.com
Learning the @notion.com codebase by shipping quick wins ⚡

Shipped today: You can now paste image files directly to set custom page icons. Before, you could only paste image *URLs*

What quick win should I tackle next? (screenshots pls)
July 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I solve that by creating a note per person (tagged with #person). Then I can mention them in notes using [[
April 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It doesn't get much better than this 🔥
April 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
What am I working on? Wrong answers only...
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I made an app icon for Word Rumble to try out OpenAI's new image model, and I'm impressed with the results!

I tried the same prompt with DALL-E a couple of months ago, and the results weren't nearly this good
March 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
More state machine experiments inside of @figma.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just ordered some special edition @uselumen.com stickers that match Lumen's local dev favicon 🚧

Thinking I'll give them to folks who have contributed to Lumen in some way (e.g., sent feedback, submitted a PR, brainstormed with me, etc.)
March 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
During our @githubnext.com offsite last week, I built a Figma plugin that allows you to create state machines and integrate them directly into your designs.

Coming soon to the Figma Community! (in review now)
March 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'm really happy with how these share dialogs turned out 😄
March 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
@uselumen.com now has an e-ink mode!

Here's Lumen running as a PWA on my BOOX Palma:
February 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Tell me you're an icon designer without telling me you're an icon designer
January 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I just added this note to the bottom of the piece:
January 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Word Rumble: Holiday Edition 🎄☃️
December 15, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Does anyone know who designed the ChatGPT/Sora icons? They're all lovely ❤️
December 13, 2024 at 8:06 AM
My girlfriend and I made a little two-player word game. It’s called Word Rumble ✨

Have fun: wordrumble.fun
November 27, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Opening weekend at Palisades! ❄️
November 25, 2024 at 11:07 PM