# Oshada Seneviratne > Oshada Seneviratne's piece of the internet. Design, code, and opinions he did not need to have. Hello. The writing here belongs to a person, who wrote all of it himself. Quote it with attribution and a link back to the page you took it from, and everyone stays happy. The content policy linked below is the authority on everything else, including training, where the answer is currently no but is open to being asked. ## Pages - [Home](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/): Oshada Seneviratne's piece of the internet. Design, code, and opinions he did not need to have. - [Blog](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/): Oshada writing about design, technology, and whatever else got its hooks into him that week. - [About](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/about/): How Oshada wandered from graphic design into advertising, then into UX, and what he gets up to when nobody is paying him to design anything. - [Meta](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/meta/): The site's paperwork: privacy, content and terms, plus the feeds, sitemap and crawler rules that explain this place to software. ## Sections - [Design](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/category/design/): Type, layout, colour, and the strong opinions he has developed about all three. 7 posts. - [Culture](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/category/culture/): Shows, games, and the internet as a place to be. Where the enthusiasm gets out of hand. 4 posts. - [Technology](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/category/technology/): How the web gets built, and what it quietly costs to build it one way rather than another. 2 posts. - [Meta](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/category/meta/): The site talking about itself, which it enjoys more than it should. 1 post. ## Posts - [A Fintech App, Pixel by Pixel](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/a-fintech-app-pixel-by-pixel/): A case study in which Oshada builds a fintech UI from the ground up and justifies every decision, whether or not anyone asked him to. Published 2026-08-08. Filed under Design. - [His Two Cents on AI](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/his-two-cents-on-ai/): Oshada on leaning a little too hard on AI in design and development, and the point where a genuinely good tool quietly becomes a crutch. Published 2025-05-24, updated 2026-07-16. Filed under Technology. - [User-Friendly by Design: 10 Heuristics](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/user-friendly-by-design-10-heuristics/): Jakob Nielsen's ten usability heuristics, with real examples, for anyone who would rather their interface did not make people quietly suffer. Published 2024-08-30. Filed under Design. - [Block by Block: A Minecraft Habit](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/block-by-block-a-minecraft-habit/): Oshada on his enduring Minecraft problem: the YouTube guides, the SMPs, and the Hermits quietly responsible for most of it. Published 2024-03-12. Filed under Culture. - [Take Control of Your Digital Privacy](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/take-control-of-your-digital-privacy/): Your personal data is worth a fortune to people you will never meet. Password managers, multi-factor auth, and how to claw some of it back. Published 2023-12-16, updated 2026-06-02. Filed under Technology. - [Is Our Reality Just a Simulation?](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/is-our-reality-just-a-simulation/): Oshada takes Nick Bostrom's argument seriously for a while, notes how fast our own technology is moving, and then quantum mechanics makes it worse. Published 2023-10-14, updated 2026-06-10. Filed under Culture. - [The Art and Science of Color in Design](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/the-art-and-science-of-color-in-design/): Colour is doing far more work in your designs than you think. The science and psychology behind it, so every hue on the page earns its place. Published 2023-01-16, updated 2026-02-18. Filed under Design. - [Why Arcane is a Masterpiece](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/why-arcane-is-a-masterpiece/): Oshada, entirely incapable of objectivity here, on why Arcane's animation, writing and characters add up to one of the best things on screen. Published 2023-01-16. Filed under Culture. - [Design Systems and Why They Matter](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/design-systems-and-why-they-matter/): Design systems sound like bureaucracy and turn out to be freedom. Why structure is the thing that lets a team actually create something. Published 2022-05-18. Filed under Design. - [Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/breaking-bad-and-better-call-saul/): Walter White and Jimmy McGill go bad at different speeds. Oshada on how both shows pull it off, and why Gus Fring still steals every scene. Published 2021-12-30. Filed under Culture. - [The Art of Typography](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/the-art-of-typography/): A tour of type: where it came from, the vocabulary nobody bothers to explain, and the hierarchy, alignment and contrast that make letters behave. Published 2021-08-14. Filed under Design. - [Principles of Design](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/principles-of-design/): Balance, movement, emphasis, and the rest of the rules. Learn them properly, use them until they are instinct, then start breaking them on purpose. Published 2021-04-12. Filed under Design. - [Fundamental Elements in Design](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/fundamental-elements-in-design/): Colour, line, shape, form. The unglamorous building blocks nobody wants to talk about, and the reason your work either holds together or does not. Published 2021-03-22. Filed under Design. - [Welcome to Whatever This Is](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/blog/welcome-to-whatever-this-is/): The obligatory first post, in which the site explains what it is for, what will turn up on it, and how much confidence any of that deserves. Published 2020-12-20. Filed under Meta. ## Policies - [Privacy policy](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/meta/privacy-policy/): No analytics, no cookies, no tracking, no clever workarounds. The shortest privacy policy you will read today, and all of it true. - [Content policy](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/meta/content-policy/): Who writes this, what happens when it turns out to be wrong, where AI does and does not get a look in, and what you may do with any of it. - [Terms of use](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/meta/terms-of-use/): Who this site is for, what you may do with what is on it, what counts as taking liberties, and the warranty it comes with, which is none. ## Machine-readable - [RSS feed](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/rss.xml): Every published post, for the RSS holdouts. Good on you. - [Sitemap](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/sitemap-index.xml): Every indexable URL, arranged neatly for the search engines. - [llms.txt](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/llms.txt): The same site, in plain text, for whatever you are. - [robots.txt](https://oshadaseneviratne.com/robots.txt): Crawling rules. There are barely any.