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Place: A Writer for Visual Thinkers

Project overview

It’s difficult to think visually in existing writing apps. I created Place, an experimental text editor linking prose to a space for images, quotes, and other references.

Place is a side project I started to help my own creative writing, to dive deeper into Svelte Kit and Serverless development, and to have fun.

Client

Personal project

My role

Concept, design, development

Concept

In the editor, sections of text are linked to areas of the space through ‘slices’, making it possible to organize knowledge spatially and write alongside.

Each section of text is linked to an area on the canvas

Interaction design

Place makes extensive use of motion design to communicate actions and state while keeping the UI as minimal as possible. This being a personal project, I took the opportunity to explore less common UX ideas like a notification system connected to the mouse cursor.

I designed a notification system tied to the mouse cursor. It’s fun.
Manipulating items in Place