I first drew LifePatch as a tab on my profile, a wall where I could pin whatever felt worth keeping. A photograph, a passing thought, a voice note, a film poster, a link. I wanted to move them around until the wall felt like mine.
Each person gets their own canvas. It is a place to express themselves through images, writing, sound, and the little pieces of a day that rarely fit anywhere else. This is a working version of that sketch. Try adding a patch, open an essay or album, and see how the wall changes across phone, tablet, and web frames.
From the notebook
The wall before the screen
The first sketch treats the wall as a collection of patches, each with its own shape and purpose. I am keeping that loose, personal structure as the prototype grows.
First sketch — circa 2024.
LifePatch prototype / my wall
Photos
A regular image, a polaroid with room for a caption, a wide nature view, or a small album of several moments. Their shapes should stay different on the wall.
Writing
A quick handwritten-style note can sit beside a longer essay. The essay opens to give the whole story room to breathe.
Things to hear
A voice patch carries a spoken preview. A record patch marks a song or album I want to remember.
Keepsakes
Film posters, stamps, small sketches, and people stacks give the wall the uneven texture of a real collection.
Places on the web
A saved link shows its destination on the canvas. It can point to a video, a story, or anything worth finding again.
The sketch also imagines a featured wall, a current trip, recent images, and a space for whatever is catching someone's attention. They are possible arrangements of the same patches.
Footnotes
- LifePatch: a web experiment of mine, a digital design project where people document small everyday paths of life, saving photos, stories, and short videos as memories and growing a personal digital garden.
- Marijana Pavlinić's stamps: a personal stamps collection I kept returning to while shaping this wall. The credit for the patch Organize and Shuffle buttons are from this project.
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