Ivo Mynttinen
@ivomynttinen.bsky.social
User Interface Designer. Designing and coding pixels. https://ivomynttinen.com Building a home: https://hanglage-no8.de
Has it become normalized to just straight up copy popular design interfaces, or is this the shadcnification of design? Back then, you’d get some shit thrown at you if you posted a design on Dribbble that looked just a little bit too close to whatever design Stripe pushed live before.
I’m in the middle of a large Figma library refactor (pre-variables), bringing it back in sync with an organically grown Vue component library. Thought I’d save time with the new MCP server + “skills.” Didn’t accomplish shit. Burns tokens, spams requests, gets absolute fundamentals wrong.
This is the color picker Figma should have shipped 4 years ago.
Paper (paper.design) kinda is what Figma's AI integration should have been. Capable MCP server on top of a solid design tool that is based HTML+CSS instead of creating a gap between design and code.
Paper – design, share, ship
Paper is a modern and powerful design tool that helps you create, share, and ship your best work.
paper.design
Well today I learned there is a separate scale CSS property that basically does the same as transform: scale(), but does not interfer with other transforms. Pretty nieche, but useful when you need it.
Weekend project: completely rebuilt the house build cost breakdown page of our little blog. Now with more data, more visualizations and more fun! hanglage-no8.de/en/costs
Costs
All construction costs for our single-family house in Germany in the year 2024-2026 broken down by trades.
hanglage-no8.de
If you like retro sci-fi interfaces (Alien, Star Wars, Akira), you gonna love this: KODŌ-7 - A UI ODYSSEY. www.kodo7.com
Just added a bunch of loose screens of applications I’ve recently designed: telary.studio/indices/ Still need to add some actual case studies for these...
250 Images / Telary Studio
A chaotic, but beautiful view of the full range of our work, including our most recent and oldest projects.
telary.studio
Someone at this pen company went to my website, downloaded a) my logo and b) the font I use (I don’t use both together anywhere), stitched them together and sent me an unasked for sample. Nice try and thanks for then pen.
I‘d really like to just document everything of life in Obsidian, but I absolutely fail with that. Somehow I always fall back to just dumping notes into the Notes app, write articles in loose Google Docs, etc. No idea how to change these habits.
It's long overdue, but our windows are finally in! 🪟 hanglage-no8.de/en/notes/win...
Windows: Costs, Material, and Installation
Lots of light, large windows, high costs: Why we chose wood-aluminum instead of PVC and why the price difference was negligible. Our experiences from quote to installation.
hanglage-no8.de
I've recently started (again) to publish some more recent design work on Layers (and 💩 Dribbble). Haven't done this for years, but will try to post something at least weekly. Follow me: layers.to/telarystudio or dribbble.com/ivomynttinen
Granted, I haven't checked out the official iOS Figma libraries for a while, but this just surprised me a bit (event tho super simple) and I'm totally stealing it: using SF Symbols as page icons instead of tacky emojis.
Love a good deal and wanted to have something future-proof for my network equipment so I bought this mint-condition Lehmann 24U-Rack used for 90€ 😬
Ubiquiti is launching a rack UPS at a good price, but they decide to power it with a 216Wh battery? Barely enough time to shutdown all rack devices gracefully. 1kwh of LifePo4 would have been marginally more expensive, I guess they need some room for the Pro, Max, and Ultra versions of this thing...
Ok, gonna admit it after using it for a while: liquid glass is an absolute hit for me on iOS. On macOS the design update is terrible (what are these huge paddings, elevated sidebars that have no reason to be elevated?).
Exciting news! Structural work is essentially complete. Now there will be a two week break, then the roofers get started. hanglage-no8.de/en/notes/she...
Shell construction almost finished – the last works before the summer break
Ceilings, staircase, exterior works: Before their well-deserved summer break, the construction workers put in a lot of effort once again. Here’s what has happened over the past weeks.
hanglage-no8.de
Back from vacation, first visit on the building site. Impressive progress was made (also everything according to schedule): structural work of basement is done, street level halfway through. Garage now exists. hanglage-no8.de/en/notes/gar...
Garage, Walls, Loggia – The Ground Floor Takes Shape
You should go on vacation more often – at least if you want to come back to find an extra floor on your house. A lot has changed.
hanglage-no8.de
I hate how aggressive reddits' algorithm is. Out of curiosity you click on a mildly interesting post once while scrolling and reddit be like WOW HE IS REALLY INTO SCRAP METAL DIY RECYCLING LETS FLOOD THE FEED WITH 50 SCRAP METAL RECYCLING POSTS
Big progress on our construction site: basement walls are all up, insulation mostly complete. hanglage-no8.de/en/notes/bas...
Basement Exterior Walls, Interior Walls, and Perimeter Insulation
Over the past two weeks, a lot has happened on our construction site: the basement walls are almost complete.
hanglage-no8.de
Looks like legibility and accessibility (contrast ratios) is kinda an afterthought on the iOS/Mac OS redesign. Pretty sure Apple will jack up the blur spreads and opacity over time…
Posted some recent design work on Layers. I want to live this platform, but whenever I check back it’s just unbearable slow… wonder if anyone is even still working on it. layers.to/layers/cmaqr...
API Explorer by Telary Studio | Layers
Design for a dynamically generated API documentation.
layers.to
Material Design 3 "Expressive" has been released with updated Docs. m3.material.io
Material Design
Build beautiful, usable products faster. Material Design is an adaptable system—backed by open-source code—that helps teams build high quality digital experiences.
m3.material.io
One of my biggest design system mistakes: adding margin to components. I thought eg. inputs would usually need spacing below. In reality, edge cases are more common. Components should control their children — never their siblings or parents.