Ava Stone
Design Lead
Leads visual design on Neubrutal, with a bias toward flat color and hard shadows over gradients and blur.
Posts by Ava Stone
Naming six colors so they don't collide
Categorical, not semantic — why the accent tokens are named yellow, pink, and blue, not primary and success.
Shipping a full component library in a weekend
Notes on building buttons, cards, and forms fast without reaching for a UI kit.
Why we went with hard shadows instead of blur
The case for zero-blur, offset shadows in a design system built for clarity.
Tokens over utility soup
How seven CSS variables replaced a hundred one-off Tailwind classes.