daily creative inspiration,
funneled & focused.
for designers and makers, creative blocks are inevitable. scatterbrain transforms the chaos of scattered bookmarks, open tabs, and unread links into a curated daily ritual. by pulling inspiration from your custom "sauce" urls, scatterbrain aggregates design articles, visuals, and motion media into a modular feed tailored specifically to your active creative blocks. it’s daily inspiration, gamified and focused, designed to get you back to making.
creatives suffer from bookmark rot. we aggregate inspiration across dozens of open tabs, pocket feeds, and disconnected boards, only to lose track of them. there is no fun, unified routine designed to turn this collection of feeds into active daily inspiration. instead, it decays into background digital clutter.
scatterbrain intercepts the chaos. by offering a color-driven app where you choose your specific creative disciplines (blocks) and feed inputs (sauces), the app curates a modular visual stack that users swipe through. saving inspiration is gamified, keeping users inspired and actively tracking their input habits.
USER JOURNEY & APP FLOW
Onboarding & Sign-up
A fast, high-contrast entry point. User creates an identity, setting preferences for email, password, or linking with Google authentication to begin the daily inspiration habit.
Choose Creative Blocks
User selects the specific disciplines they want to curate feeds for. These blocks serve as filters to keep feeds targeted to active interests like graphic design, motion, or code.
Drop Your 'Sauce'
Custom feeds call for custom sources. Users drop links to portfolios, design blogs, or curated feeds (e.g. Awwwards, Savee) to auto-populate their daily feed with inspiration they actually respect.
Daily Inspiration Feed
A colorful, modular grid displaying curated items from selected blocks and sauce lists. Users can toggle content types (articles, images, videos) and refresh the daily feed to break creative blocks.
Saved Inspiration Database
All bookmarked items are stored in 'My Scatter', a simplified yellow-themed index. Sorted by content type, this visual archive ensures inspiration remains accessible long after the initial discovery.
Profile & Inspiration Stats
Visualizes the creative intake habit. Displays user details, active source count, total saved items, and streaks to gamify inspiration and turn passive browsing into active habit.
ENERGY, CHAOS & FOCUS
the color choices—saturated primary red, yellow, and blue—are deliberately disruptive, reflecting the vibrant chaos of unfiltered creative inspiration. the heavy offset box-shadows and stacked cards represent the tactile feel of physically layering magazines and pages in a scrapbook or visual zine. the lightning bolt serves as a recurring motif, symbolizing the spark of focus that snaps the user out of creative blocks.
THE OUTCOME
even as a conceptual system, scatterbrain illustrates a tangible shift in workflow: transforming passive bookmarking clutter into a gamified, daily visual intake ritual. by reducing browsing friction, cataloging input, and focusing creative sources, users can track their visual fuel and navigate past creative dry spells with confidence.