Choosing a design

Already a few days into the hackathon, and I woke up this morning with a design dilemma: what should my project actually look like?

Breaking my usual patterns

I think hackathons are the perfect opportunity to do fun stuff you’d never attempt in a real project. So I made a decision: no component libraries, no recycling styles from my other projects (which is totally what I usually do to save time).

Instead, I decided to scroll through social media for inspiration. Sometimes the best ideas come from the most unexpected places.

Finding inspiration

That’s when I stumbled upon Crazy Creative and was absolutely blown away.

Look, I’m just a developer. I don’t have anywhere near the design skills of this artist, and I’m definitely not planning to make real money from this hackathon project. But their color scheme and font combination? Chef’s kiss - they look incredible together.

I wish I had the skills to create illustrations like theirs, but that’s way beyond my current abilities.

Giving credit where it’s due

I wanted to make sure this amazing artist gets proper credit for their work. I’m not trying to take credit for their creativity - I’m simply borrowing their brilliant color palette and typography pairing that completely caught my eye.

Sometimes the best thing you can do as a developer is recognize great design when you see it and give props to the real artists who make the web beautiful.