Practice log

Short notes from my design engineering practice. Each one is tried in my own work, with one check or prompt you can run today and the source linked.

  1. Typography1 min readThe type you check leastMy project cards had labels set at 8.8 pixels, on every screen size.
  2. Color1 min readI stopped eyeballing my paletteDesign school trains you to judge color by eye. That habit does not survive dark mode.
  3. Color1 min readSame color, different neighborOn my previous theme, the same cobalt glow was pigment on paper in light mode and a navy stain in dark mode. I never changed the color. I changed what sat around it.
  4. Critique2 min readThe agent can critique. It should not choose.When the crit rules flagged my dark mode, I did not let the agent fix it however it liked.
  5. Critique2 min readMy crit rubric is now an agent instructionI knew my dark mode looked off. I could not say why. Five written rules could.
  6. Design engineering1 min readDesign school turned out to be the jobI trained as a designer. These days a lot of my work runs through an AI coding agent in a terminal.