My First Blog Post

Welcome to Writ in Light.

This is a long overdue project born from an unexpected realization:

As I’ve grown older, I’ve noticed that my perception of colour has faded.

The saturation of life, once so vivid in childhood memories, has dimmed into something quieter. Colour, once bold and present, now lingers only faintly behind the mental clutter of deadlines, notifications, and logical flows.

A few years ago, I picked up amateur photography. I thought it would help capture life as it was. But the photos didn’t reflect how I felt and saw things in real life. I found myself compensating through edits, increasing brightness and saturation, as if trying to recreate the vibrancy I once took for granted. Maybe I was trying to colour in a memory I hadn’t realized was already fading.

Then came the post-university plunge into the workforce. As a developer, my world became systems and syntax. It was efficient, clean, and grayscale. Design was always “over there”, something I respected, but not something I was fluent in.

But with my recent shift into product, a door opened.

Not just into design concepts or visual systems but into a deeper curiosity: Could I use this opportunity to reclaim the colour I once knew? Could I learn not only the tools of good design, but also rediscover something more personal. Perhaps a fuller perception of the world, and of myself?

What I’m Working On

Writ in Light will be a place to explore the intersection of:

• Colour

• Psychology

• Creativity and perception

I’ll be documenting my learning journey, building small tools, and sharing reflections on how design affects how we think, feel, and remember.

This site will also be a journal. It will be a living project, where both the content and the site itself evolve over time. A visual trace of my own learning arc, written not just in words, but in hue and shade.

Next Steps

Here’s what’s on the roadmap:

• Structured learning arcs into colour theory, design principles, and aesthetic psychology
• Interactive tools to help you understand your own colour preferences and associations
• Case studies and examples of colour psychology in action.

Here’s to seeing things a little more clearly (and a little more colourfully) one post at a time.