‘It’s intentionally dark’: how one art director is visualising OCD in web design

Created by Ready Set Rocket’s executive creative director Aaron Harvey, Intrusive Thoughts is an educational resource set up for pure obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) sufferers, launched after Harvey struggled to find help in battling his own mental health demons. The project empathises with and calms its audience not just through advice-laden copy, but through the aesthetic of the website itself.
The Drum spoke to the platform’s designer, art director Anastasia Kuznetsova, a