Thoughts and musings
After a few months of effort (and even more months idly thinking about it), I finally released Tempy , my latest app. Tempy is a quick notes app. A digital scrap of paper that is always handy. And it’s an app that I’ve been wanting for myself for a long time. The brief An experienced focused on quick capture An editor that makes both writing and reading enjoyable Easy ways to get text out of the…
It started with Dropbox. I have been a customer for a couple of years, paying their highest individual tier price because I needed two things: reliable syncing and lots of storage. This should have been a win-win situation. Dropbox was offering a product that fit my needs and I was willing to pay the price they asked. But then at some point, I started getting increasingly obnoxious upsell messages…
I’m finally having a bit more time and mental space to work on a side project of mine. DoRepeat is an app for iPhone and iPad that helps you stay on top of all the recurring tasks in your life. I started it as a one-week project a few years ago. Since then, hundreds of people have downloaded it, but I was never quite happy with it. Besides some glaring bugs due to my limitations as a developer at…
This is probably just a translation glitch, but I find the wording in Jottacloud’s cookie consent dialog refreshingly honest. Yes, I do want to “Reject Unnecessary” cookies.
The introduction of Liquid Glass earlier this year has affected me more than I want to admit. I have previously written about how baffled I am at the sloppiness in its design and implementation. But there is something deeper than just frustration with a UI change. For many years, Apple products were a safe haven when it came to user experience design. While not every product or UI change was…
We just wrapped up another iteration of PUSH UX Conference last week. It’s a massive undertaking and the week of the event is usually one big fire drill, where I and the rest of the team have to react to whatever we get confronted with. When the conference is over, it’s a startling sensation when there are suddenly no more emergencies and no more fires to put out. It’s a disorientating feeling. My…
Every other week, I bring myself to get excited about LLMs as a research tool. And every single time, there are some more or less obvious inconsistencies in the result, which means that I have to now fact-check everything if I care about the accuracy of the result. But I don’t want to be a fact-checker. Fact-checking feels defensive. I’m spending my time on making something less bad, and the ideal…
My daily photography project has been chugging along just fine for 61 days now. With my goal being to capture and post a photo each day for 100 days, I am well post the midway point now and I thought that I’d document some observations. I am always on the lookout for photos Especially on days where I don’t think that there will be a good occasion for photos, I am hyper-aware of my surroundings.…
My employer has a very aggressive policy when it comes to operating system updates. As a result, my work laptop and phone have been running the latest Apple operating systems. You can probably tell from the last sentence that this wasn’t a voluntary decision. I wasn’t particularly excited about the Liquid Glass UI when it was announced and that hunch has been confirmed over the past weeks,…
I simply have to share how much happier I am with today’s experiments in double exposure compared to yesterday . I am enjoying this technique more and more, and I haven’t even properly scratched the surface yet. Two Left Hands