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Scott Riley
@scott.is
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Design for Real Humans / ACAB / Buy my fuckin book

https://scott.is
https://mindfuldesign.xyz
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young man crying on snapchat meme, text reads "feel like pure shit just want daylight"
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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if i had the energy i would do a blooper reel
a video still: a man in a purple t-shirt is looking off to the side, subtitles read "More wooden than your dad's cock." a video still: a man in a purple t-shirt is sipping from a cup. subtitle reads "A little fucking beverage-ino"
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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when i have to socialise for longer than twenty minutes but just about keep the autism at bay
a dramatic youtube thumbnail that reads "NEXT LEVEL MASKING!"
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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really selling the mindful design course to @bell.bz with this one lads
A Slack message that reads "You know what's way more fun than I first thought? Doing genuinely bad design work."
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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git commit -am "da horns babeyyy"
screenshot of a website in a lo-fi pixellated style. text on the left has a header that reads "Scott is cuddling his dog" and two paragraphs: "Welcome, dear friend, to my little slice of the web. This is where you’ll find whatever piece of myself I have been able to plonk into the ether. Take a look around. It’s sparse I know, but that’s the joy of a space, right? Maybe soon it’ll be a place." on the right is an ascii art depiction of the 'devil horns' hand gesture, mocked up to look like a retro application window with "da-horns-babeyyy.txt" in it's 'menu bar'.
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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logarithmic type scales in @penpot.app for free just because they do tokens like normal fuckin humans instead of [gestures at whatever that absolute mess in Figma is]
Editing a token in Penpot. A form with a Name field with a value of 'font.size.5' and a Value field with a value of '{font.size.4} * {math.font.scale}'.
October 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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*cries in video editor*
Besides, you can only fix so much “in post” — imagine finding a typo in a code snippet in a recorded video? Just the idea would keep me up at night.
October 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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the blog is back babeyyy
A screenshot of a humble web page. The section title is "Rest your bones and peruse some words", and it features a grid of three articles: "The Interminable Pursuit of an Anticapitalist Web", "On AI and the commoditisation of design", and "Embracing contradiction in design".
October 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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couldn't get @strange.website's WDC talk out my head. had to build a new home. i am once again asking you to not judge me for redesigning my site scott.is
A screenshot of a web page. on the left is content that reads "Scott is trying his best. Once again my personal site became a professional site and now I am making it a personal site again. Also it was hosted on Vercel, and absolutely fuck that. Until then, you can take a look at Mindful Design or hit me up on Bluesky." On the right is an ASCII portrait of me.
October 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Director of Photography overseeing the last few course videos.
A white and ginger dog sat on a blue couch looking dolefully into the camera. She is cute as heck. Her name is Lorna. I wish you could meet her and give her belly rubs. L
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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One of these is called Zed. One is called Zen. How many times per day do I get them confused? Yes.
two very similar looking app icons, both featuring multiple white geometric shapes on a black background, making them very difficult to tell apart at a glance.
October 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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forgot the typo and just realised i invited a bunch of people to a Brianstorm today
brians clough, cox (actor), cox (scientist) and cranston with a big storm behind them
October 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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sTreAmeR mOdE
a man sharing his screen with a sticky note app in the background in a stereotypical 'streamer' setup, man's face in the bottom right of the screen. shrek is also there.
October 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Last chance to pre-order the Mindful Design course! md-video.beehiiv.com/p/mindful-de...
September 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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@bell.bz green screen setup working sound now mate x
A man with curly hair and a beard is doing a wonky 'peace' sign. Superimposed behind him is a picture of a pig pooping on his own big balls (pig poop balls)
September 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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speed dial
a google search with 'pig poop balls' in the search box
September 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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get your designs good!

#ux #designtips #linkedin #betterdesign #mindfuldesign #experttips #bereallygoodatthings #woah
Great tips for design, titled 'Get your designs good'. Text underneath: "Sometimes it's hard to do good designs. When you're doing designs, it can be easy to accidentally do a bad design every now and then! Remember the very important tips to make things look good." Beneath that are two example images. One is bad design, with a photo of a pig pooping on its own balls (pig poop balls), using a bad font and bad spacing. The other image is a nicer design, with a photo of cherries, better text spacing, and nicer font choices. Beneath the pig poop balls section is a list that says: "No 'font', Poor image choice, Spacing is off". Beneath the cherries is a list that says "Uses 'font', Better image choice, Spacing is nice". A stylised 'Mindful Design' logomark wraps things up.
September 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Uh oh I can drive now
A happy man with a driving test pass certificate
August 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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i look at this this ☝️ so your dad can look at this 👇
a man wearing a 'design for real humans' t-shirt posing with his fingers in two 'peace' signs in a tableau of absolute millennial tragedy.
August 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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BEHIND THE SCENES

(yes the desk is balanced on monitor stands. no it is not safe. yes i fear for my life every time i record a video. yes @bell.bz is scared i might die)
behind the scenes shot of a video recording setup. a desk is balanced precariously on speaker stands. the room is messy but has a very nice cat tapestry hanging on the wall.
August 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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MERCH TIME ✌️

'Design For Real Humans' tee available now. It's lush and I love it!

Screen-printed in the UK on 100% cotton, 203 g/m² Gildan Ultra!!

Show yer mates you're cool AND good at drawing rectangles!!!

Buy one so I can buy my dog treats!!!!!!

mindful-design.square.site/product/desi...
A close cropped photo of a man sat at a table wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans' A man sat at a table, using a laptop, wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans' A man outdoors wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans' A man outdoors wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans'
July 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Merch drop soon? 👀
A tattooed man wearing a lavender t-shirt with ‘design for real humans’ in a wavy font on the left chest of the t-shirt
July 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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crossing off a big milestone for That Writing App I've Rewritten from Scratch Three Times. offline-first w/ realtime sync is finally working in some kind of predictable and repeatable way. and actually spent some time setting a fancy serif. as a treat.
a screenshot of a work-in-progress minimalist writing app. a left sidebar contains folders and documents in a nested tree. the middle main section contains a document about shrek. the right hand sidesheet contains information about the document, including reading time, reading age, and most used words. a screenshot of a work-in-progress minimalist writing app. a left sidebar contains folders and documents in a nested tree. the middle main section contains a document about shrek.
July 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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garden cat coming for her semi-regular coffee break always brightens up the day
a black cat looking up towards a man who is just out of shot a black cat frollicking in grass
July 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM