in a time filled with replays, wraps and look-backs, i’m taking a few moments to reflect on 2024 and the lovely experiences it brought my way.
design
starting with the work at sketch – in 2024 i got the opportunity to work on some fun projects. on the mac app we included scroll areas, additional prototype triggers, new sharing options, and contributed to translating sketch to spanish.
over at the web app we improved notifications view, exporting design tokens, inspecting in the full canvas, exporting any assets from the web – and all of that on a completely new UI.
there's something very satisfying in being able to bring useful features to people using sketch and to refresh some of the existing features to make them a tiny bit nicer to use.
to showcase some of my work, in july, i took a day to make a simpler, easier to maintain portfolio, heavily featuring a time line of projects and previews.
write
although I didn’t write as much as I wanted, in 2024 that changed. i started writing regularly on my online journal, ramses.cv/writing, where I shared personal experiences, notes about work, and other ideas. the sound of summer is probably the entry that'd define best the tone of the journal.
writing in spanish and talking about video games have always been a pending item on my to-do list – and this year i finally found a way to match both things. i published cualquier botón ↓: a journal about slowly playing and writing about video games.
play
around october i had an idea for a tiny game and although it took some time to figure things out I published: no empty half heart on itch.io. the game is a personal sokoban where i could write openly about my feelings mixed with a simple gameplay through 10 short levels. the majority of the ideas and design came while running in the mornings.
connect
a few times this year i had the opportunity to connect with people during live events in tokyo and copenhagen. it was lovely listening to and sharing time with other creatives. it is always a refreshing perspective about the world, specially when i work fully remote.
on a more digital note – i had the pleasure of being interviewed on feed.me design magazine where I could share thoughts on creativity, collaboration, and culture.
later this year i moved my microblogging activities to bluesky – feel free to connect with me there if you're also using it.
thank you for 2024.
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01 sketch
02 portfolio
03 no empty half heart
04 cualquier botón ↓
05 design matters
06 alejandra cubero
07 feed.me
08 bluesky