Scott Riley

@scott.is

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designer for real humans / author / speaker / educator / acab / buy my fuckin book / take my fuckin course Mindful Design video course: https://piccalil.li/mindful-design Other gaffs: https://scott.is https://mindfuldesign.xyz

a reddit post in r/mildyinfurating. "Made hundreds of wristbands for a conference that suddenly got renamed" with an attached image of dozens of wristbands with "NONCEFEST 2026" printed on them.
an older model macbook
A white and tan dog lying with legs outstretched on a green rug with a coloured floral pattern
a heading reads 'which is more musky?', beneath that a painting of saint sebastian (left) next to a painting of john the baptist (right) offers a compelling comparison. the obvious choice is of course john the baptist
the pokemon fire red hall of fame featuring three rattata and two pidgey
a ui card with an image of a person using a voting phone app, followed by "Greggs PLC, 2026 annual general meeting, vote by 07-MAY-2026' and a 'Vote Now' button
screenshot of a tweet from 'fuck the moon': fly me to the moon let me kick it's fucking ass let me show it what i learned in my moon jujitsu class
screenshot of pokemon fire red hall of fame showing a single nidoking, lv. 68
screenshot of a pokedex entry for a nidoking called andy
Screenshot of final score of a colour game. Text reads: "results. Your colour memory is annoyingly sharp. Better than 98% of players. 46.57/50." Colour swatches at the bottom show the comparison and result of each of five colour memory tests. The scores in order are 8.80, 9.49, 9.83, 8.93, 9.53.
a white and tan dog lying down in a veterinary kennel looking very gloomy and dopey
A purple guitar leaning against an Orange speaker cabinet with an Orange Rocker 15 Terror sitting on top of the cabinet
a confounded orange bird saying 'listen here, you little shit'
'you wouldn't download a car'
a pissed off cartoon bird with 'Listen here, you little shit' superimposed
Crying fella with "Feel like pure shit just want big toblerone back x" superimposed.
A dog lying on a couch between two people. She is wearing Xmas dinosaur pyjamas, matching the two humans.
screenshot of a post by 'exfauna', text reads: "[getting eaten by a dragon] Don't worry. I plan to change it from the inside"
Screenshot of YouTube's 'wrapped' feature, says: Your top interests 1. Pokemon strategy guides 2. Football quizzes and challenges 3. Exploring video game speedruns 4. Watching historical documentaries 5. Learning about strength training
a 'based on your browsing history' amazon screenshot containing a multitude of shrek items
a big slide saying "trying to make adjectives out of rectangles"
video still of a video presentation, man in the bottom corner, with a big slide saying 'Graphic Design is my Passion' in various forms of old-school WordArt.
screenshot of two playlists, 'Metal Hits' with a cover photo of Sleep Token's lead singer, and 'Heavy Hitters' with a cover photo of Ronnie Radke, the worst human in metal. Get fucked Ronald.
a screenshot of a form titled 'edit border radius token' with fields of name, value and description, with values of 'radius.hey-boss-lemme-buy-this-thing', '8', and 'Gotta round them rectangles bossman xxx' respectively.
still from a video in a video player. a man in a purple t-shirt is looking down towards shrek peeking over the man's right shoulder. there is clearly some sexual tension, an electricity felt even through this static artifact.
a man in uniform is walking hand-in-hand across a football pitch with a person dressed up as a poppy
young man crying on snapchat meme, text reads "feel like pure shit just want daylight"
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 dramatic youtube thumbnail that reads "NEXT LEVEL MASKING!"
A Slack message that reads "You know what's way more fun than I first thought? Doing genuinely bad design work."
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'.
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}'.
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.
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".
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.
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
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.
brians clough, cox (actor), cox (scientist) and cranston with a big storm behind them
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.
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)
a google search with 'pig poop balls' in the search box
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.
A happy man with a driving test pass certificate
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.
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.
A close cropped photo of a man sat at a table wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans'
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
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 black cat looking up towards a man who is just out of shot
a purple guitar
A mockup of a UI popover menu with the menu items 'Trans Women', 'Are Women', 'JK Rowling', 'Is a fuckin ghoul'.
screenshot of a writing app. there is a left hand sidebar that shows a list of documents, and a document editor takes up the rest of the screen showing a document titled 'Why Shrek 2 is the Best Fuckin Film Ever'.
Screenshot of the fucking idiot that is ChatGPT. It says: "Ah, sharp as a tack. You’re absolutely right again. Common fate is all about shared movement along a shared path. If the elements don’t move together, on the same trajectory, or at the same pace, then it doesn’t qualify as common fate. Synchronization or just “grouping” isn’t enough. Let’s clean this up and really nail it down:" AI is bad for your brain cells.
A smiling man with a big stick
an over-edited welsh sunset behind a rolling hill in the background, a large field in the midground, and a hedge and bit of tree in the foreground. the photographer tried too hard to make it look interesting,. ti does not.
a collage of liverpool fc players and staff and the english premier league trophy. 'premier league champions' is written towards the bottom.