2020年に嵐の音楽に出会いました。それから嬉しい時も悲しい時も、嵐の素敵な曲がずっと僕のそばにいてくれました。心から感謝しています。 嵐の皆さん、スタッフの皆さん、本当にお疲れ様でした。 “忘れないでいよ” これからも、ずっと。 🌈

hola 〜 ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა ❄️ hope you’re having a nice december, wherever (and whenever) you’re reading this! hopefully not too cold nor warm 〜 christmas tree · november 2025 · iphone this year i listened to a lot of music and bought a handful of CDs some of my favorite highlights include the new album from asunojokei, the new works from fuji kaze, 小田和正, gen hoshino and my most recent favorite artist KANさん, which casually and light-hearted covered an idol song in the past: i also started listening to some classical music, and although i’m still exploring my taste in this genre, i’m loving some music from tjajkovskij ♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ ﾟ please, let me know what you’ve been listening to recently <3 the site over the past days i’ve been updating things here and there on the site,and will probably continue to do so ( ˶°ㅁ°) !! let me know if something’s not looking right… 〜  site on the ipad · november 2025 · iphone the most notable change is the new photo on the front page taken by a friend ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧ thank you! i include additional information on the main page text both in english and japanese, and updated to the profile page. i also played around a bit with the navigation & i really like how it is looking at the moment. you can read most of the updates on the changelog page. i love the new subtle bg color too 〜  thank you before the end of the year, I just wanted to thank everyone who’s been around. thanks for all your support and for always cheering on me along the way. it means a lot to me and I really appreciate it. i’m excited and i look forward to continue journaling next year.  i wish you a lovely and calm end of the year. if you want to reach out, you can send me an email, connect on bluesky or sign my guestbook 〜  thanks for visiting and reading this post <3 /rc

hola! 〜  ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) i hope it is not very cold at the moment you’re reading this post 〜 although here is  freezing and dark-ish, i wanted to write a few words about something i designed at sketch a while back and recently released + some other misc 〜  let’s start with a photo of warmer days ❄(ó﹏ò｡) ferris wheel · september 2025 · iphone nested folders in 2023 we released a feature called Collections (and i wrote case study about it), it was a feature that would let designers tidy up documents in sketch with an additional level of organization. it worked well and conceptually it was a fun  project to design.  fast forward to the end 2025 sketch is releasing a new feature in which i worked; that converts all projects and collection into folders and folders within folders within folders … nested folders · 2025 introducing nested folders brought a few additional set of challenges: moving documents and folders, flexible sidebar and improved breadcrumbs, and other bits that needed to be reworked to fit this concept (╭ರ_•́) moving documents and folders probably where i spent the most time on this project was designing a new flow for moving documents and folders. the new dialog is very compact but mighty powerful. we packed it with features including: moving within different workspaces visual overview of the entire workspace structure search folder creation additional document/folder info current location move dialog · 2025 · designed in sketch flexible sidebar this has been pending for a while and maybe the most obvious change but with the introduction of nested folders it made sense to include the ability resize the sidebar to explore more complex folder structures: flexible sidebar · 2025 · designed in sketch breadcrumbs overall this was a great opportunity to review navigation and breadcrumbs within the existing web views. with a more complex folder structure we made sure that breadcrumbs let people: navigate to the most immediate ascending level pick any of the ascending levels improved breadcrumbs · 2025 · designed in sketch listening to the feedback keeping an open eye into the feedback from people using sketch while working on this feature has been fun. we started by building foundations with collections and later continue to iterate to bring nested folders to sketch (*ˊᗜˋ*)/ᵗᑋᵃᐢᵏ ᵞᵒᵘ* the feature is part of the latest sketch release copenhagen, which you can read about on the changelog. — before i leave you for now 〜 please make sure to listen to my favorite album this year: Prema by Fuji Kaze. for now, you can send me an email, connect on bluesky or sign my guestbook 〜 thanks for visiting and reading this post <3 /rc

hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) it’s been a few months since i sat down to write an update on the journal. we’re almost at the end of august and all my memories of the last few months include really high temperatures.  most days i escaped the heat by going to a cafe and ordering a cold drink, while designing new stuff for sketch. here’s a photo of a large ice coffee 〜 (♡°▽°♡) large ice coffee at doutor coffee · summer 2025 · iphone more handoff improvements throughout this year a recurrent theme in my work is reviewing and improving the handoff experience at sketch. my previous journal entry covered some of the major improvements to handoff that shipped in may: new information layout, css snippet and box-model preview. right after we finished working on that – i really wanted to focus on unifying the look and feel of the properties related to color, color variables, symbols, etc… on the inspector panel. i made an inventory of the properties and review the design of how they’re displayed on the inspector: color, color variable, gradients, symbols, text styles and layer styles. overview of inspector elements · 2025 · designed in sketch ⓘ click on the images to see them full size this update made it quite easy to give the properties more space in the inspector and making it a little more lightweight and spacious – we dropped some labels, in favour of full-width items: bye bye labels · 2025 · designed in sketch aaaand with more space and a clearer inspector we finally reviewed how to display additional information for each property: hello panels (¬‿¬ ) more info inside panels while the inspector gives an overview of the most common and relevant data, we moved in-depth and specific details to panels. the panels structure is pretty simple and we reused that layout for the most part, including: a header with a title, copy and close action a preview, whenever it was possible a list of properties a value scale  each section would be interchanged depending on the type of properties we were showing: panel layout · 2025 · designed in sketch with this structure we built panels to display information related to color variables, gradients and a wide range of other styles – once we had a layout and a system that covered most of the type of values it was quite easy to do the variations ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ panels! · 2025 · designed in sketch animated with ezgif in action all of these updates are currently available on the latest update of sketch 〜 here’s a small preview of some details of the interaction in the web app: panels in action · 2025 · captured from the web app overall the new panels fit quite well in the language of the web app while providing additional details for handoff. it’s been quite a lot of fun designing them and i hope you find them useful ( ◡‿◡ *) i’m looking forward to continue improving the web app and will keep sharing small updates of my work at sketch in this journal 💛 for now, you can send me an email, connect on bluesky or sign my guestbook 〜 thanks for visiting and reading this post <3 /rc

hi everyone 〜 ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ ) we just launched a new version of sketch including awaited features such as stacks, frames, and graphics, along with a lot of other new features. while we prepared the inspector on the web app to display the new properties that come with these features, we also took the opportunity to add a few new functionalities that would make it easier inspect designs. in this journal entry, i’ll go through some of the changes and show you some behind-the-scenes materials of the project 〜 (▰˘◡˘▰)  ⓘ click on the images to see them full size the new properties frames and stacks bring a bunch of new properties, so before starting to work on any UI, we created an inventory of the current/new properties to include in the inspector: the main focus was to give a simple overview of all the properties while keeping it in a similar language to the mac app, sharing the same name and icons whenever possible. bringing the new properties from the mac app to the web app was seamless, and it felt very straightforward to include them in the existing structure. box-model and css throughout this process, i had some time to explore bringing a few additional features to the inspector 〜 it seemed just right that with frames and stacks around the corner, we would make it easier for devs to copy CSS and have a better overview of the elements through a box-model diagram. when designing the box-model, i took into account all the other box-model diagrams developers would see during their work; browsers, other tools, inspectors… and used them as a reference to explore a box-model for the web app. i went through several iterations and kept refining together with the team: after a bunch of versions, we decided to go with one that felt simple yet informative enough for the web app inspector: the css preview followed a very similar process; started with the simplest version and kept iterating over time. one of the issues with having the css on the sidebar is that devs wanted a better overview. the css on the sidebar works great as a preview, but sometimes people want to look at the code in detail. we implemented an expanded version that opens in a dialog and shows the entire code without the constraints of the sidebar: towards the end of the implementation, i was not 100% convinced with the color scheme of the code, but after exploring for a while, i decided to stick to the original decision as it fit naturally with the rest of the UI. here’s a preview of all the explorations: moving things around while we introduced more sections and properties to the inspector we started to question how to organize the content – in the latest version of the web app we moved things around a little bit and created a structure that would make more sense. if you you want to play aorund with the inspector you can use this public document and you can also hear over to sketch.com/home to download and play around with the latest version of the app (୨୧ ❛ᴗ❛)✧ for now, you can send me an email, connect on bluesky or sign my guestbook 〜 thanks for visiting and reading this post <3 /rc