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.
Client
Personal project
My role
Concept, design, development
Place is a side project that I made to help my own writing, to dive deeper into kit.svelte.dev, and to have fun.
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.
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.
The app is built in Svelte Kit and runs on Netlify, currently in pre-alpha.