Joshua Wold

Refocusing this blog For the last few weeks I've been wondering what to write about. It's not that I have nothing to say, but rather that the things I want to say don't quite match how I want to say them. A recent episode

Like many other designers in the industry, I was mostly self-taught. When I was starting, there wasn't really a field of product design for taking classes. We had to figure it out from others along the way, along with our own musings and trial-and-error. I remember one dashboard

Over the last four years I've found a new hobby: basketball. And funnily enough, I don't even playExcept. It's important to have something we care about that isn't motivated by a financial return. Me? I like getting lost; spending time diving into

It might just be that I'm getting old, but I appreciate what I've had to struggle for. Back in community college my brother and I attended a few semesters together. In one English class, a summer condensed course, my first essay came back with a ton

Last week I was working through a challenging design problem. I needed to create a new set of screens for an app. Because of some limits on the hardware used for the app, there's a lot of constraints on how the problem can be approached. The designs are

Last month I bought a new e-reader. I've been following the cycle of new devices over the years, and have been particularly interested in small screens. I have a Kindle Paperwhite—and it's fine. But it's not pocketable, at least not if you count

Ask me twenty years ago what I'd be thinking—on almost any given topic, and it's likely that the younger version of me would be surprised by the person who has had 38 cycles around the sun. We shift as we get older, we modify, we

Claude Code is an amazing tool. And with each update it gets better. I've been using it since last summer, when a friend strongly encouraged I give it a try. I'd been a fan of Replit before, but they charge a per usage fee, and the

I've been thinking about seasons lately. It might be a result of a recent Cal Newport episode (great podcast by the way), or just the fact that we're shifting from Winter into Spring here in the northern hemisphere. Life can't just be the same

I was talking to a friend recently about career progression and the challenges I've faced over the last two decades in navigating work and life. So much of what we talk about as a society is related to the effort we're supposed to put in, and