#Self-initiated

Portfolio work tagged with #Self-initiated, part of Rich McNabb's ongoing UX/UI design work.

Hand holding a smartphone displaying a workout summary screen with stats for distance, time, elevation, and calories, seamless against a background of a scenic coastal road at sunset.

Daily UI: 100 days of UI/UX design challenge

100 days in a row, 100 prompts, 100 different UI components and screens. A personal challenge to build speed and sharpen instinct outside client work, later shared on Dribbble and credited by designers at Netflix.

Downhill mountain biker riding a steep mountain trail, featured alongside a custom 5-day weather forecast widget UI overlay in the bottom left corner.

Self-initiated: Weather forecasting widget

A personal side project pushed further than a widget usually goes. Configurable layouts, a live data preview and a companion Apple Watch face, all built over weekends just to see how far a simple weather widget could go.

SimpleTimer: Stopwatch & countdown timer app

It started with a hair product's packaging and ended as SimpleTimer, a minimal stopwatch and timer app stripped back to nothing but circles and simplicity, from early concept sketches through to its own landing page.

iPad mockup displaying an origami app screen with an interactive 3D purple dodecahedron diagram and descriptive text, surrounded by an Apple Pencil and AirPods.

PaperCraft: Metatron’s Cube origami iPad app

What started as a distraction from a business dashboard became PaperCraft, a self-initiated origami app for Metatron's Cube. Printable diagrams, video walkthroughs and a shop for prints, complete with sacred geometry throughout.