This Should Be Fun
A home for random creative ideas, because this should be fun.
Role
Concept & design
Category
Personal Projects
Link
thisshouldbe.fun
Most of my work is shaped by business goals, stakeholders, and constraints. This Should Be Fun is a personal site where I play around and pursue creative ideas without any of that. I’m a one-woman show, tackling the concept, visual design, interaction, and writing for each iteration. I build it mostly with templates and tools that are readily available so that I can go from idea to something clickable super quickly.
It’s a belief I hold dearly, and the name says it all: this should be fun!
I loved the early-internet and so for the current iteration of TSBF I decided to make a desktop, where every icon might hide something. I wanted to reward poking around, and for the chat to feels like we’re back in the ICQ / AIM days.
It’s a belief I hold dearly, and the name says it all: this should be fun!
I loved the early-internet and so for the current iteration of TSBF I decided to make a desktop, where every icon might hide something. I wanted to reward poking around, and for the chat to feels like we’re back in the ICQ / AIM days.
Chat
The chatbot isn’t AI. It runs on the logic of ELIZA, the 1960s chatbot, so its personality comes from simple rules, not a model. ELIZA worked because it played a psychotherapist: the patient-and-therapist dynamic let a few canned reflections feel truly thoughtful. My Y2K version doesn’t have that built-in framing, so it’s less convincing, but it was fun to play with and learn more about how the logic worked.
I haven’t worked on much branding or graphics professionally in recent years, so I like to throw in some of that on the site too.
Why are millennials so obsessed with a peace sign?
Currently
Open to senior and staff product design roles, especially design systems and tooling.
Open to senior and staff product design roles, especially design systems and tooling.
About this work
Some details and figures have been omitted or generalized for confidentiality. I’m happy to chat more in conversation!
Some details and figures have been omitted or generalized for confidentiality. I’m happy to chat more in conversation!