Piecemeal2025

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Piecemeal is a dupe of the queer cruising site Sniffies, with user profiles replaced by the fragments of a non-linear narrative. It explores cruising and UX/UI's obsession with smoothness, immediacy, and clarity — how the language of branding, commerce, and colonialism (maps, measurements) are overlaid via the interface onto what we desire from our bodies.

The narrative follows Ravi, a fictional design student who becomes addicted to the site during the same semester he’s enrolled in a UI/UX course. It’s structured as a series of vignettes forcing the reader to become a navigator, discovering and pulling together the narrative from disparate parts attempting to gain mastery over a narrative that refuses its own coherency.

The website is distributed through Clique Books, a web-based publishing initiative for their second edition in 2025.