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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

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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 EST2014 FILE 02

TrakQR

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

ROLECCO, CO-FOUNDER STATUSACTIVE EST2011 FILE 03

Vesper

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

ROLEFOUNDER STATUSACTIVE EST2026 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 EST2025 FILE 05

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 EST2026 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 EST2022 FILE 07

Artifact Futurism

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

TYPEDESIGN SYSTEM STATUSWIP FILE 08

WordPress Plugins

Free, open-source WordPress plugins, starting with Action Center - a Calls to Action manager built for nonprofits and advocacy groups.

TYPEOPEN SOURCE STATUSACTIVE EST2026 FILE 09

Ebooks

Books I make and give away for free. The first volume is an introduction to sourdough and wild yeast baking - 24 recipes as EPUB and PDF.

TYPEFREE BOOKS STATUSGROWING EST2026 FILE 10

Threadspore

An invite-only collaboration platform for nonprofit volunteers, built both mobile-first and with accessibility & ease-of-use at top of mind - so that it works for every demographic. Each organization gets its own branded portal where teams share messages, to-dos, polls, and links. No passwords to keep up with. No app updates. Just work without barriers.

ROLEFOUNDER STATUSIN DEVELOPMENT EST2026

02 - The archives