Picking up the threads
It's been a fun, crazy, chaotic couple of weeks. I'm starting to feel that build up, and so I'm taking a different tack for twenty-four hours to make sure I can keep moving forward in the directions I want to go.
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Laying down the threads
Part of the role of a good designer, and anyone who has to work in projects from start to completion, is being able to pick up the threads from day-to-day to keep everything moving forward.
Through the first half dozen years of my career I struggled with this. Often I’
A new UX framework: Prompt, sketch, ship.
My product design process has held steady for years. But last week changed things. I've gone from using AI very little to pulling it right into the heart of my thinking.
The Figma Opportunity
Figma has changed the entire industry. But it's poised to be replaced just as it's headed to an IPO.
Goodbye Replit, Hello Claude and Hello World
Chasing the high and reinventing yourself
Miles from your dreams, inches from success - Free
There’s a lot of influencers online who talk about their success and brag about what’s worked for them and how you can follow along and do the same.
The problem is this is survivorship bias.
Why do we all get sucked into joining meme stocks, cryptocurrency, MLMs, snake
Writing your way out, vibe coding podcasts, Apple's miss, how I design changed, vibe coding
Following is a summary of what I published this week.
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* Write your way out - Now more than ever, we
Working with the machine, not against it
I chose something simple this time, something I could finish in an evening. I used AI to help me, running through feedback loops to quickly iterate and be the product owner, instead of writing code or doing design.
How I design just changed
Over the last two days I've been taking an intensive course on using AI to build apps.
It's changed how I process design and code, and shifted my thinking to focus more on the end user from the beginning.