I sometimes imagine that a digital screen is like a petri dish of pond water. It's composition of interface elements sort of like microorganisms: reacting to energy & stimulus, being poked and prodded by other elements/users in the system, & adapting to when the shape of their environment changes.
I, like many, have grown exhausted by the Japandi interior design aesthetic.*
I, like many, am too invested in the Japandi lifestyle to stop.*
I, like many, weep.*
*first world problem(s)
The tool itself is awesome. I’ve just reservations with the cultural response that I anticipate.
Today I'm available for new full-time opportunities and will consider contract roles. If you know of Sr. Product Designer or UX Designer roles, then I would love to hear from you.
My website → www.mitchellwatts.com
Context: a private equity acquisition impacted most of the jobs in our digital org
Found myself today reminiscing on the days of sharing design on Forrst and later, Dribbble. While the design industry felt less mature, it also felt more intimate, engaging, and helpful.
But all I can do is reminisce, because communities that recapture that spirit seem fleeting.
The Sigma BF is very neat. A bit of an indictment against Leica that they keep making things more fussy and complicated rather than this: a reduction to the essence of what makes a camera. It’s truly a case study in minimalism.
Wonderful stuff.
Pro-tip for professionals who need to have a portfolio: keep a work journal! Organize it by project/feature/product with screenshots, artifacts, key conversations, and metrics.
✔ Record of your work
✔ Easy case study material
✔ Tracks accomplishments over time
✔ Receipts for performance reviews
Spinning up a new case study for my website. 😌
p much client I've ever worked with, the root of most inefficiencies in projects is the fact they're always in goddamn meetings.
They don't even have time to do their own job, let alone the extra needed to make us as useful as possible.
Man, I don’t think any band has been as good a representative of their genre as Metallica. What an awesome entry point into metal.
And I’ve been a metalhead since I was a teenager. Their first four albums still crush.
Happy to report that Titanfall 2 more than holds up. It still holds the title of best first person shooter video game.
I wrote a blog post on how to build a macOS menu bar utility in #SwiftUI using MenuBarExtra, customize its icon, hide it from the Dock, and add a quit option:
nilcoalescing.com/blog/BuildAM...
Not to brag, but my son slept for an 8 hour stretch last night. Which is the longest undisturbed period of sleep we’ve had in 7 months. 😮💨
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Ever stand in the shower & try to ELI5 something? An eloquent, simple way to describe a hobby, or your job?
Really makes you self-reflect when answering, “how well practiced and knowledgeable am I in this topic?”
So for me, all of the above. But for the plot of HALO, Combat Evolved.
Hey Stephen, what blu-ray player is that? And would you recommend it? I might be doing similar activities later this year. 🤔
If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE
Watching Mahomes get sacked, then sacked again. Then intercepted?
Absolutely cathartic.
All to say, it’s been a much needed creative outlet. I can experiment by breaking from the (justifiably) rigid decisions and patterns found in large organizations.
Fun to be your own client 😮💨
Designing my website live, unrefined, and available for anyone to see its unfinished state felt counter intuitive at first. I’m vulnerable; fearful that displaying a rough & subpar experience (albeit temporarily) will leave a lasting negative first impression.
Yet it’s my best portfolio site yet.
A view out the window at OHare. Various machinery in frame, centered on a little tiny vacuum truck that’s sucking up bits of trash here and there.
the urge to drive this little vacuum truck
Since discovering the “Wristwatch Revival” YouTube channel I’m now slowly falling in love with analog watches. Which is a shame, because I bought an Apple Watch Ultra 2 not long ago.
Curious… how difficult it might be to learn the hobby? 👀
For the kids growing up today, using web search for most things is going to feel like using an abacus in the age of calculators…
Did you get into the beta?
Did you close the beta? The invitation no longer works.
Stunners being dropped by Apple Guy, per usual. Half of my wallpapers are powered by this guy.
Increasingly wonder if it’s worth my time to learn additional UI and prototyping apps for mocking up experiences, or if in the same amount of time I could just learn to code.
Answer seems obvious after typing that out.
*Launch Day*
The Art of Fauna is now available on the App Store! 🥳
It's a puzzle game based on historical animal drawings, with a strong focus on accessibility. 20% of proceeds are donated to nature conservation organisations.
Download:
apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...
Learn more 🧵
#TheArtOfFauna
Goes 🦆’ing hard.
