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For my job, I often have to share my screen for lengthy calls. As my setup, I use an LG 27″ UD58 4K screen and a 2015 Macbook Pro. Now, this screen is not exactly ideal to show designs. The people on the receiving end might be using a 15″ laptops, so the image they […]
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This post was edited October 15th, with some additional info. I started some research on 4K TV’s, which is a difficult topic, mostly because you have to use them to really know how good they are, and you don’t just buy 10 expensive TVs. You can try to find information online and from looking in […]
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The rebranded “De Redactie” – now called VRT NWS — was launched a few days ago. What stood out to me the first time I visited the site was the choice of type. To me, it seemed the tracking was off. Things seemed to be extremely tight. Some reading on Twitter and I learned that […]
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This is a blog reply to Andy Budd’s article The Golden Age of UX may be over, but not for the reasons stated. When I read Andy’s piece I found it a bit presumptuous to name your own agency as one of the leaders in a field. But I respect Andy and it’s actually true […]
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For a while I’ve been pondering to buy a Windows based laptop. Some of the user interface design work we do at Mono involves designing desktop applications on Windows. I dearly love macOS, but I also have to know “the other side” to do a good job. So the major reason is UI design, but Microsoft is actually playing […]
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I am looking for an app that allows me to annotate PNG exports from design apps in another environment i.e. draw arrows, explain things, while keeping the original design as an external file reference. I would prefer if the app has an “infinite” canvas feature, where you can resize the app to the size you […]
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This weekend I took a walk and listened to a podcast episode of Nice To Meet You which featured DHH, the technical cofounder of Basecamp. I know a lot about Basecamp and their company values from reading their blog Signal v. Noise for over 10 years so everything David was saying was basically something I […]
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I think I’ve come full circle with my thoughts on working remotely. I worked remotely for about a year from Japan for my own company around 2015. I thought it was a brilliant idea: who doesn’t like the idea of working from anywhere? But I’ve come to realize that, while I got a lot done […]
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Yay! I built a working calculator for the iPhone. I followed this Lynda tutorial. In the process I learned about enum, guard, optionals, autolayout & constraints etc. I figured there wouldn’t be any modern macOS programming resources so I’d have to sidestep to iOS to eventually get back to macOS, because the principles would be […]
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I am going to use this blog as a bit of a reference point as I learn about macOS programming. View Life Cycle There is something called the view life cycle. It is basically the event chain of your application. I saved this helpful image: Logging (akin to console.log on the web) You can print […]