Joshua Wold

Amidst all the discussion of Apple Intelligence and timelines that slipped—or fell off a cliff entirely—I’ve heard repeated anologies to the Apple Maps fiasco years ago. Apple shipped something that wasn’t ready, and Scott Forstall paid the price. In the same breath I here the two

I don’t do well with silence. It’s too much. My brain struggles to focus on tasks if things are quiet. Yes, yes. I know. It’s good to let my mind wander and think. Processing thoughts allows our minds to think through ideas. That’s the whole point

It’s nearly Spring in Idaho and the longer days and increased sunlight makes so happy. It’s easy to forget what sun feels like. Though I don’t like the long gray winters, they make me appreciate the warmer weather that follows.

I love to play around with tech. When I hosted my website on a different server I’d mess around with the site files via FTP. It was so fun to tweak and modify files and see the results instantly. I also had a ton of security holes and had

The AirPods will be able to provide a simpler translation process for people who are speaking different languages, though the process will rely on the Translate app on the iPhone. If an English speaker with AirPods is talking to someone who is speaking Spanish, the  iPhone  will detect the audio,

Why stumble when you can look it up? It’s not simply the extraordinary efficiency of this sort that makes it important. It also represents a different expectation of how the world works. There’s no place to go look up what to do with that insight, so we’ll

Every great creative I have talked to, and have been studying, from Lennon and McCartney to Jony Ive to Virgil Abloh has needed some time and space to just “try some shit.” To discover, to explore…to see what works. Whatever you’re working on right now, is there enough

Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying something new. My design lead, Chris, challenged me to fully adopt auto layout in Figma. We’re both product designers. If there’s a spectrum of designer types, he leans more on the user interface (UI) side of things, and I

Perhaps the most time I personally spend on email is staring at lingering emails. I bet I average about 5 of them at any given time. Emails that are just sitting there and I know they need some kind of action or response, I just can’t get it done

A chat app. A phone. An email. A meeting. That is my social network. I’m taking a pause from nearly all forms of social network. But I haven’t stopped socializing. In fact it feels like I’m using digital communication technology more than ever over recent months, but