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Joshua Wold

Pouring in with design

Right now is a massively unstable moment for designers. We don’t know what will happen next. The floor is changing out from under us, and we’re each waiting to catch our breath and see what the rest of the year, and the years following, bring. For some this

Hide my email comes in clutch

Since writing earlier this month about Hide My Email, one of my favorite features of iCloud+, I had a situation come up where it immediately solved a problem for me. I was looking for a mortgage calculator to research information on a HELOC, and a certain website comes up. Rhymes

Top five this week

My blog is a mix between Gruber, Ben, and Kottke. My unique spin is being a product designer in a changing world, capturing the shift in AI and why strategic thinking and forced evolution may have a chance at designers staying relevant. Thanks to a suggestion from my brother, I’

The Easter story I love

The church lights dim. The music swells. Onstage, a handful of figures step out and wait. Down the center aisle, nearly a dozen smaller silhouettes line up, waiting for their cue. The music shifts suddenly—the aisle and stage come alive. The figures surge forward, hands raised, each holding lights

We want Instagram to split off

Right now there’s a lot of discourse around whether Instagram should be split from Meta. On Sharp Tech Ben Thompson made an impassioned argument for why logically it shouldn’t happen. I agree. When Facebook bought Instagram it was at a time when their future was uncertain, and the

RSVP is wrong

Anyone who has sent out an invitation knows the pain. You are trying to get a headcount for food and need to know how many people are coming. You sent the RSVPs to dozens of people and two responded in the correct manner, namely letting you know they can or

Designers and thoughts on 2025

It’s 2025, and the landscape for product designers has shifted. About a decade ago, when I moved into this field from web design and graphic design, things were still growing and taking shape. It was the first role—outside of my attempts at engineering—where I saw a true

Taking work outside

There were days it was glorious. I sought out sunny spots on my front porch and back deck. Some mornings, I watched the mist lift off the nearby mountain and the play of plant shadows. In the interstitial moments between computer tasks, I observed tiny snow specks drifting through the

When it's all enough

Some weeks, this being no exception, it’s easy to feel the weight of everything bearing down at once. That’s ok. We’re human, we have a lot going on, and at times it feels unbearable. In those moments we keep pushing forward as best we can, but recognizing

What it means to be and enjoy life

Apropos of nothing I’ve been considering what a world with less stuff might look like. It’s possible that some items will become more expensive, or nigh on impossible to obtain. Already the cost of living has inflated drastically since COVID. Things just cost more. Some items can be