I'm obsessed with profile pages. Before algorithmic feeds, social media was about spending time on profile pages. It was personal. Users curated their pages based on aesthetics more than social signalling. They communicated with instead of at each other. Gardens. It was dope. Here's my Zora profile:I just noticed the primary display name is $usersteen, my profile's token (which this post is paired with lol) From a design perspective, it's clean. There's a coin-to-social flow that is intuitive...

UPDATED 08.26.25 @ 10:14PM Following up on:zora is for gridsA visual studyhttps://paragraph.comVertical lines appear thinner than horizontal lines of the same weight. This makes 9:16 feel tall. Weird tall. In person, on 55"+ displays, it's impressive. It also works well for mobile; we know this because of short-form social media. It displays relatively large. The digital flexibility is worth pushing past reels and vidz. Jpg+gif 9:16 is a massive creative opportunity. I think it's a pathway fo...

This image is so disturbing. I feel like I pulled off what I was going for and more, considering how it displays in different formats. Like the cover image for this post. Or a square, or pfp. Zora is an interesting arena because on profiles, images display in squares on web and natural-ratio on mobile. I'm pressure testing the 9:16 canvas, trying to optimize for multiple formats. This one will be cool on zora, but it won't work as a pfp. Next image on zora will optimize for all 3. It's worth ...