Steven Trotter
DOC 00 - HOME

Hi, I'm Steven. Designer, photographer, and maker on the Oregon Coast.

Thirty-plus years of UI/UX, brand and packaging design, print and photography - most of it for nonprofits. These are my field notes and works in progress.

NameS. TROTTER
Location45.63 N, 123.94 W
Revision2026-A
StatusMAKING THINGS
01 - Active files
FILE 01

Library Market

Software designed by people who have worked for and with libraries with the goal to positively impact libraries, staff, and patrons.

ROLECCO, CO-FOUNDER STATUSACTIVE
FILE 02

TrakQR

Dynamic QR code campaigns - codes you can repoint and measure after they are out in the world.

ROLECCO, CO-FOUNDER STATUSACTIVE
FILE 03

Vesper

An accessibility suite for product designers. Making accessibility part of how teams already work.

ROLEFOUNDER STATUSACTIVE
FILE 04

Emerald Curtain Collective

Branding, website management, content creation, and volunteer work for an Oregon Coast nonprofit focused on using art & activism together to save our unique PNW ecosystems from destruction.

ROLECO-FOUNDER STATUSACTIVE
FILE 05

Project Atlas

A personal project-management app, dressed in a retro space theme, that encourages you to work with your crew (friends) to accomplish projects (missions). The collective work of all users powers the discovery of a brilliant galaxy.

PLATFORMWEB, MACOS, IOS STATUSALPHA TESTING
FILE 06

Project Sentinel

An archival app for preserving net art and anything else on the web worth keeping. A specialized crawler builds a dossier of every page; source code, media files, and connections are preserved in detail. Subsequent scans allow for change-tracking over the piece's lifetime.

TYPEMACOS STATUSALPHA TESTING
FILE 07

Analog Functionalism

The design system behind this site - a living field manual of the style, its influences, and every component.

TYPEDESIGN SYSTEM STATUSLIVING DOC