yayoik — illustrator & web designer in Osaka, Japan.
I make small browser tools with a quiet heart —
an incense-stick meditation timer, a checker for web images —
made at an easy pace, as the mood takes me.
Chrome extension
Shows the playing track's album art in a small window at the corner of the Spotify Web Player. Comes with a "CD shelf" of everything you've heard, and turns the artwork into wallpaper for your phone and more! A cheerful little extension for people who listen in the browser.
Chrome extension
Press the crescent in your toolbar and tonight's moon rises in a small window — drawn at its true phase, with the traditional Japanese names for each phase, the sign the moon stands in, and the dates of the next new and full moon. A simple window for moon-viewing, with a little sentiment to it.
Runs in your browser
A mindfulness timer that measures your sitting with a single stick of incense, until it burns all the way down. Choose a scent and a holder, then light it. A little of the zen spirit, brought into the virtual world.
Chrome extension
An inspection tool for people who build the web: it finds missing alt text, images without width/height, and the causes of layout shift (CLS) at a glance. For the everyday hunt for what you overlooked.
Runs in your browser
Hold your question, and throw three times. Roll the dice and an I Ching hexagram is cast for you. There is a Chrome extension version too, for the moment the thought strikes you.
Runs in your browser
A little room to share with a chinchilla. Look after its food and water, or just watch the sky and the moon. Besides the web version, a Windows build is available to download.
Runs in your browser
A toy of a tool that does one thing: pick two to four ingredients for today's miso soup, at random. It makes deciding dinner that little bit shorter.
Runs in your browser
You cannot search for something whose name you have forgotten. A search box you can throw a vague description at — "that round thing on the end of a bicycle" — and still find it.
Chrome extension
Now and then, in the corner of the page. It scurries across, stops short, and sniffs the air — a small silhouette of a companion that never gets in the way of your work. Pick its speed, size and colour, and let it walk about your browser.
Not a tool, but notes from my own reading. Left here for anyone with an interest in the subject.
Websites, illustration, flyers — a bit of everything, really.
Mail: hello@yayoik.jp
Support my work: OFUSE / Buy Me a Coffee
