- Posted in design design-systems process productivity
I would like to take a stand against “design systems” as standalone work; meetings to “officialize” components and designers building three tier token systems that most likely will just get ignored by other team members. I believe that for some teams, the design systems pendulum has swung too far. We have people spending days and […]
- Posted in aspirations build-in-public entrepeneurship professioneel - 1 comment
Yesterday was my last day at Doccle, and I’ve been asked what I’m going to do now. Over the past few months I’ve been thinking about this. As I talked about in my “choose your own adventure” blog posts, different options were in my head: a full-time position at a US company; an agency; founding […]
- Posted in road-biking
Het is me al wel een fietsweek geweest. Vorige week dinsdag ben ik voor de eerste keer “Bosques” gaan doen, dat wil zeggen: gaan fietsen in Bosques de las Lomas. Vandaag was ik er opnieuw en ik moet zeggen: damn, dit is toch wel de eigen grenzen verleggen. Hier in Mexico-Stad heb je een aantal […]
- Posted in digital-archiving side projects that could become main projects side-projects
I’ve been doing some digital digging while creating some much needed backups. I found this old map project where I was trying to put markers on a map. I remember I made that project when I just arrived in Mexico. I had implemented it in Svelte and in React but I was not very happy […]
- Posted in build-in-public obra-icons
I started working on Obra Icons in August 2023 with a first release in november 2023. Now one year later, the project is stronger than ever with it’s 2.0 release. It grew from 350 icons to over a thousand icons; and the quality of the set has vastly improved. Just two weeks ago, we released […]
- Posted in figma figma-plugins
My Obra Icons project has always been available from the website, but now you can also use the Figma plugin. Earlier this week, we also released a package for React. Any feedback is welcome!
- Posted in apps build-in-public
Yesterday I took the idea of prompting to make an iOS app much further than with my experiments of last week. I have this web-based version of a currency conversion app – which you can try here – and I converted most of the logic to an iOS app. I wanted to see how far […]
With my “newfound” prompting superpowers, I tried to generate the code for an iPhone app and see how far I could go. Once again, I was pretty amazed by the Claude/Cursor workflow. In a rather limited time I had the scaffolding for a wedding app done. I ended up getting a subscription to Cursor which […]
- Posted in aspirations career
Last work week I spent a good chunk of time on my projects Screenshot to Layout and Obra Icons. I also spent some time investing the hype around Cursor and oh boy… the hype is real. I built a mobile-optimized Currency Converter app in a few hours of work mostly by prompting what I wanted. […]
- Posted in aspirations career ondernemen
My search for a new adventure is starting in earnest after some holidays. Two weeks ago I wrote about two main options, one was getting a product designer role in a US startup/scaleup, the other one was restarting agency life. I’ve been looking at jobs on read.cv and on workatastartup.com. Ideally I can find a […]