It might be the world I'm swimming in, but it feels like a lot of people are starting to build apps. Some of these ideas spring from a desire to tinker and create, and maybe make money. But many others come from folks who have a problem, and
I'm excited. It'd be an understatement to say that things have shifted with technology in the last few years. The whole world has changed. And those of us who build software for a living have seen the ground shift under our feet. As with many designers,
Last night I was up late working on a project for work. Nobody made me do it, so no—don't worry, I won't be blinking twice. I really wanted to solve a particular problem, and I went at it all day, from dawn till dusk. Every
You push so hard for so long, and at some point you look up and wonder why you've been expending your energy. When this happens, you can decide to keep pushing for diminishing returns or pause, step back, and reconsider. This is an area I struggle with. I&
Over the last month I've done a lot more reading. Partially because of my little X4 (and now the X4 Pro), and partially because I got back from a two week vacation in Italy. During our trip I made the conscious decision to use my iPhone as little
Next month Apple will be coming out with new phones. I'm looking forward to it. It's easy to be cynical these days about tiny upgrades, corporate entities sucking us dry for everything we're worth, planned obsolescence, and products that are merely incremental improvements over
I was talking with a friend recently about what it takes to make software successful. Specifically, indie apps and ideas. Over the years I've waffled between two sides of a spectrum. On the one hand I want to build great interfaces based on insight from real world customers.
When you first start your career you quickly realize that much of your work depends on execution. You learn something and you figure out how to do it. You get better, you find efficiencies. For me, as a teenager, this meant honing my craft. I tinkered with graphic design, figured
With all the AI tools available to us, it seems that a designer has no need for the archaic, simple, not auto-completing, software of the past. Why bother with something so trite as designing when AI can just do it all for you? This week I've been
Maybe it's happened to you. You reach a point where you pull up short and don't know the point of all your endeavors. Life is like that at times. It continues, relentlessly, and seems to demand, eat up, take everything you've got. At some
I was recently listening to a podcast episode from Cal Newport, where they outlined AI rules for developers. Namely, that a developer should approach AI use carefully, with intentionality, in a way that will ensure they aren't losing the abilities they have, and are benefitting from where AI
It's been a year since I called the death of Figma. I'm still not sure if I was right, but the stock market seems to agree with me at the moment. Since then I've spent most of my time designing, and developing, with Claude