It’s a fine thing to say. Admit we’re not sure, we don’t have all the answers, we don’t know. This can feel like weakness, but in reality it suggests strength. You’re confident enough to admit when you’re missing some pieces. The followup, then, is
Hire long enough for product designers and trends emerge. Most designers at some point feel compelled to share a converging and diverging diagram, indicating their ability to go broad and narrow when needed. This is a good thing. And I agree with it. But when designers say they have a
This is the core problem with all productivity software: you’re renting someone else’s vision of how work should happen… So I decided to build exactly what I needed: daily planning like Intend, but with integrated future task management, and none of the philosophical baggage (some of which may
The designer-developer convergence is clearer than ever, whether we acknowledge it or not. The question is whether you’ll be part of the first wave or play catch-up later. Rich touches on something I’ve been playing with for a while, and thinking through as well. More and
Setting goals feels like action. It gives you the warm sense of progress without the discomfort of change. You can spend hours calibrating, optimizing, refining your goals. You can build a Notion dashboard. You can make a spreadsheet. You can go on a dopamine-fueled productivity binge and still never
Apple also announced some changes to the iPad for podcasts. I will try those out, but I’m more interested in the Apple Newsroom announcement for AirPods. I have several podcasts. 99% of the time I record from my home office. But if I could use my AirPods for decent
It was fun seeing all these changes come out from Apple. I always enjoy WWDC, and love seeing the hard work of all the people at Apple come through. That doesn’t mean there’s not things that concern me, but today I’m choosing to be an optimist. Apart
I remember iOS 7. I installed it day 1. My phone suffered all summer from bugs. My battery life dropped faster then a brand new iPhone during a cidada brood. But I loved it. It was a drastic shift—moving away from skeumorphic design into something new. As an illustrator
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It’s Apple Day for all who celebrate. For iPadOS I had a whole wishlist for Freeform. It looks like I’m going to have to wait another year for these items to come true. With the tiniest mention in the keynote I’d hoped to dig up more details.
Despite a crazy week on a personal level, I had a lot of fun with the small moments where I was able to get in writing. First, I want to say thank you to everyone who reads these posts. It means so much, and as always any feedback is welcome;
It’s almost WWDC, and time to ask the Cupertino gods for a boon. Though I’m very excited about the rumored diamorphic design, my desires are for something much simpler. Sketching is my life. I can’t imagine a way of working without it. It’s how I think
It can be hard to stay focused throughout the work day. My brain, long trained by social media and distractions from the shiny blue screens, wants to take every detour available. So I have to wrestle it back into place. And this is coming from someone who works from home,