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Birthdays and friends

introducing friends is something that all of us would benefit from doing more often. If you have people you are willing to spend time around, they are probably people that others will enjoy as well. For those of us in good orbits, perhaps the most valuable thing we can do

Creating a focused Threads feed

I recently had a friend ask me how I've shaped my Threads experience. Over the last year I've found it quite delightful to use. Part of the reason is there are a small group of people I've followed from Twitter to Mastodon to Threads.

Apple Watch for kids

Targeting the Apple Watch (or a cheaper version of it) to kids is the smartest thing Apple has done in years. Last year on ATP, Marco talked about setting up his pre-teen with an Apple Watch. It was the first time I’d heard a parent trying this, so I

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Life’s hard, and it will bring pain, emotions, challenges, tears and scars. There’s no need to generate more pain, and bring more tears where they aren’t necessary. Love these words from Michal.

So you want to read?

I’ve talked to a lot of people over the years who don’t enjoy reading. Some of it is personality, some of it is feeling forced to read for school. My premise is that most people can enjoy reading under the right circumstances. For me it comes down to

Charting data as a designer

For a while now I’ve wanted to better understand simple data and see it charted out over time. Imagine you are manually writing down your energy levels on a scale of 1-10 over the period of three months. You then want to take all that and quickly chart it

Dribbble for learning

Dribbble is a fantastic place. If you’re a designer you’ve probably used it. I setup an account too long ago to remember, and have benefitted greatly from being able to find inspiration for my work. A few years ago I was inspired by a colleague to find inspiration

Your unique you

I have a unique way of designing. I’ve rarely seen it used by others, and early on my in career I thought it meant I was broken; that I just wasn’t getting it and doing things the professional way. Now I’m so glad for my slightly different

Procrastinate, do it now

You really do have too much to do. Prioritization might be best in theory, but plain, gut-feel procrastination might be the right way to go. I love this way of thinking. I struggle with this immensely. I’m incredibly productive at times, and also let things drop for months on

Zoomed in and out

“We are still majority-remote, but I think a lot of people forget our many products and solutions that are only designed for in-office work.” What products are they talking about? Have you met anyone who knows a Zoom tool for in-office use? So Saxon and his C-level peers told workers