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Office Circuit Board

Frontend Challenge CSS Art Submission

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge: Office Edition sponsored by Axero, CSS Art: Office Culture.

Inspiration

In today’s fast-paced digital workplace, every click, ping, and meeting feels like part of a complex machine. So I imagined a world where the entire office operates like a circuit board — an electrified environment where:

Employees are data packets, flowing across glowing pathways

Coffee machines act as power nodes, fueling productivity

Meeting rooms function as microprocessors, lighting up when tasks are in session

Email threads resemble electrical pathways, blinking in sequence

And remote workers beam in wirelessly, like satellite chips on the board

This CSS Art reinterprets office culture through a hardware metaphor, bringing to life the energy, collaboration, and flow of the modern workplace.

Demo

🔗 Live Demo on CodePen

Journey

This concept was a playful mix of tech and teamwork. I began by sketching the core layout of a motherboard, replacing chips and wires with office roles and rituals. Using only HTML and CSS, I brought the scene to life with:

CSS animations for moving data packets

Glowing gradients and shadows for circuit pathways

Keyframes to simulate email chain activity and meeting pulses

Responsiveness to ensure it scales like a real workspace

Thanks to Axero and DEV for a brilliant theme — it pushed me to think beyond screens and keyboards, and truly visualize how we connect in digital spaces.

Happy coding! 💙

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