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A dramatic image of a smartphone shattering mid-air
June 27, 2025
Blog

It’s Just a Back Button. Until You Drop Your Phone

A rethink on gestures, ergonomics, and the quiet hostility of top-left nav. Ever try to go back on a mobile screen and almost drop your phone in the process?Yeah, that’s not a us

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3D-rendered red synthesizer with multiple knobs and keys, placed in a surreal red rocky landscape.
June 23, 2025
Blog

UX for Power, Not Politeness

What Music Software’s Intentional Chaos Teaches Product Designers Figma? Cute. Tesla’s dash? A blank canvas.You want to see peak product design? Open Ableton. Twist a knob on a

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Black and white self-portrait of a man in a cap wincing as two boxing gloves labeled “CLOUT” and “CRAFT” hit him in the face from both sides.
June 21, 2025
Photography

Clout Vs. Craft – Self Portrait

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Cover image for blog post titled “Always Bet on ‘Almost’ Black” featuring abstract glossy black liquid texture
June 19, 2025
Blog

Always Bet on “Almost” Black

A Product Designer’s Guide to Better Blacks 🎨 BLACK ISN’T JUST BLACK Every few months, someone opens a design file and thinks: you know what this needs? Pure, unfiltered, so

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MacBook Air Mockup of the Coreview SaaS analytics dashboard with clean light UI, user metrics, feature usage insights, and role-based access charts. With a blue abstract shape background.
June 16, 2025
UI/UX

Coreview: B2B SaaS Dashboard

Coreview is a modern B2B SaaS analytics dashboard designed to surface meaningful insights with clarity and focus. Built for teams managing multi-client workspaces, it highlights ke

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Stylized Apple logo with a translucent, iridescent liquid-glass effect.
June 13, 2025
Blog

Liquid Glass Isn’t a Style—It’s a System Shift

A Designer’s Guide to Apple’s Most Beautiful Distraction. Apple didn’t just update its interface. It redefined what “native” means. With Liquid Glass, UI elements no long

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Sumi ink illustration of three figures standing proudly beside four bulls in an open field. The brushwork is expressive and minimal, with strong silhouettes and a gestural, Picasso-inspired style.
June 13, 2025
Contemporary Art

Donde Viven los Toros

Donde Viven los Toros (Where the Bulls Live) explores the quiet dignity of rural life through gestural sumi ink. Influenced by the visual language of Picasso’s La Tauromaquia, th

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Dark-themed cover image with the title 'Liquid Glass Button – Optical Depth & Edge Highlighting in Figma' and a central glass-style button displaying the Figma logo and 'Liquid Glass'. Contact links are listed in the bottom left.
June 11, 2025
Blog

It’s Not Just Blur. It’s Optics

🧊 How to Create a Liquid Glass Button in Figma Simulating Apple’s Liquid Glass effect—with optical depth, not just blur. Most glassmorphism tutorials stop at a single blur l

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Header image for an article titled “Design Isn’t Strategy. But It Needs One.” The subheading reads “A framework for product design that doesn’t collapse.” Set in bold blue type on a soft abstract background, with the credit “MEDLEY.LTD” in the corner.
June 10, 2025
Blog

Design Isn’t Strategy. But It Needs One

A framework for product design that doesn’t collapse. 💡 A good idea with no structure is just a stylish failure waiting to happen. 🧠 Most ideas don’t fail because they’

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Hand-drawn illustrated book cover for John Milton’s Paradise Lost, featuring a demonic, wide-eyed creature with red wings, and bold retro serif typography inspired by 1970s Iberian pulp novels.
June 5, 2025
Illustration

Paradise Lost: Iberian Horror-Inspired Print Edition

This open-edition print reinterprets John Milton’s Paradise Lost through the lens of 1970s Iberian horror paperbacks. Drawing from the aesthetic of publishers like Editorial Prom

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