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How I design- Habit, love & emotion

  • Writer: Yeva 101
    Yeva 101
  • Jun 16, 2025
  • 2 min read


Design is not just what I do-it’s the way I understand life.
It’s how I process emotion, respond to change, and express love.

When I begin a project, I don’t start with a layout or a material.
I begin with a concept-an emotional nucleus that connects everything else within.
The concept becomes the anchor.
Every detail, every decision must return to it.
I believe that everything in life is a conversion of energy.
Nothing ever stays the same.
Everything transforms-cont
inuously evolving from one form to another.
And design is no different.

Spaces hold the energy we put into them.
Walls carry memory.
Light softens grief.
A doorway becomes a beginning, a threshold into change.
This is why I approach design as an intimate and transformative process-not a service, but a ritual.

Design is my love language.
There’s a rhythm to my process that mirrors how I try to live.
I believe to form a habit, you must commit to it for 30 days.
After 30 days, it becomes part of you. But consistency is not about ease, it’s about discipline.
Discipline is what carries you when you're tired, uninspired or lost.
That’s how I approach design. Every day, I return to it. Every day, I listen to it.
Even when it’s intricate. Even when it’s time-consuming. Even when it consumes me.

From concept, I move into emotion.
I ask:
How do I want someone to feel here?
Only then do I consider form.

I begin layering:
  • materials that invite touch
  • colors that calm or stir
  • spatial proportions that encourage pause, movement, intimacy, expansion

I study how light dances on surfaces.
How mirrors reveal or distort.
How scale affects emotion.
Each design element becomes a carrier of meaning-far beyond its physical role.

But design is never solitary.

Each project is also a dialogue with the site, the context, and the people who will use the space.
Sometimes their perspectives challenge my own.
That’s part of the process too; Listening, Adapting, Growing.
Understanding that difference isn’t a disruption, it’s a deepening of the whole.
It brings balance between intuition and collaboration.

I design to awaken the subconscious.
To build spaces that speak to the feelings we haven’t yet named.
To offer comfort, stillness, energy and clarity-anything the moment calls for.
I believe it’s only when creativity and precision meet that design becomes alive.
My process blends technical tools like parametric modelling and spatial simulation with raw, human instinct.

More than anything, I design with love.
Not love as a romantic idea, but as a practice of commitment. One thing I have learnt well in life is how to love; truly and unconditionally.

When I say I love design, I mean I’m devoted to it.
I’ll face the hard days, the slow days, the days that demand more than I think I can give.
Because to me, it’s not about what I receive in return.
It’s about what I put out into the world- through space, through feeling, through care.

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