Persona-driven design generation

Cut to fit one person.

Start with their favourite film. The room they feel at home in. The things they can’t stand in an app. Baste turns that particular taste into an interface.

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Plate 32 · Greenhouses
Field notes · Pacific Northwest

Mycelial network topology

Slow observations on bioluminescent organisms and DIY microscopy, pinned as you find them.

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  • No. 083Greenhousesfruiting
  • No. 027Herbariumsdormant
  • No. 086Maker spaces with plantsspreading

Listening: Biosphere — ambient

One screen, three people. Layout, type, colour and motion all come from their measurements; the images and variants are from real Baste runs, with icons refined for the interface.

The tour · 1:14

A fitting, start to finish.

Seventy-four seconds, narrated. Measure a person, re-cut one screen for three people, judge two dozen drafts, then keep the files. The screens are recorded from Baste; the drafts come from real runs.

English narration with English and French captions.Download the MP4Read the Studio guide

A person to design with.

Meet Moss, Ren, and Ada. Ask what they notice, what they love, and what would make a design feel like theirs.

In conversation with Moss

in the greenhouse

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Moss

Hi, I'm Moss, the Cyberbotanist. I study mycelium and keep a slightly overgrown greenhouse.

This is what my corner of the internet feels like. Want to talk about the colours, or the films and field notes behind them?

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Three illustrated characters. Three ways of seeing.How their taste becomes a design

Who are you designing for?

Start a fitting Bring a few references. Find a direction together.