- Posted in figma figma-plugins
Fresh from the plugin press, this plugin by Vijay Verma provides some shortcuts to easily access important vector tools In Figma. This can help as a bit of a bandaid, since Figma’s UI team inexplicably decided to hide the vector tools behind extra clicks in UI3.
- Posted in resources typography
Did you know that macOS comes with some wonderful, super high quality fonts that normally cost hundreds or thousands of euros to license? I believe they came with an update to Pages templates a few years ago. If you open Font Book — the app used to manage fonts on macOS — and then search […]
- Posted in productivity workflow
Today I was converting an mp4 video to a gif and I figured I’d document some commands that helped in the process. I used ffmpeg to do this. You can install it on Mac or Linux using homebrew: For optimal quality, generate a color pallette based on a timestamp in the video: This will generate […]
- Posted in aspirations career ondernemen
When I started as a freelancer in 2011, I dove into the world of mobile apps. But that’s the short story. The longer one is that I first did some branding and web design. Then, I had a stint as a photographer. I worked for advertising agencies (not really my thing…), development companies (interesting but […]
- Posted in career
Change is afoot for me; After 2,5 years working with Doccle I’ll be working on finding new design challenges to take on with my agency Obra Studio. At this moment, I am not sure where things will go. One part of me dreams of going back to agency life and build out a bigger, stronger […]
I’ve been experimenting with Claude lately. So far for me, it’s the most meaningful competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The software looks great and has all these neat little UX touches. Every time I use it I come back more impressed. The company behind it, Anthrophic, also seems to make conscious efforts to do AI “well”. […]
At Config, I was particularly looking forward to what kind of AI features Figma would announce after acquiring Diagram. This blog is a deep thought piece and also a piece of criticism thinking through those features. It’s also a reflection of what design app features that venture into the realm of creation mean for a […]
- Posted in conference figma figma-plugins
Last week, after Config, I started writing this huge blog post, with all the different subjects that were going through my head. Too many to name, really. If I had over word for the conference, for me personally, it would be overwhelming. To make it more managable to publish my thoughts, a friend suggested to […]
- Posted in conference san-francisco
Ik wil iets kwijt over San Francisco. Ik was er recent voor de Config conferentie van Figma. Het is op sommige vlakken zo’n mooie stad als je het puur visueel bekijkt. Maar het valt me altijd op hoeveel daklozen daar niet zijn. En je moet weten dat ik in Mexico-Stad woon, niet meteen de meest […]
- Posted in conference figma
I like June. There is always a lot of tech news: this week it was WWDC. Google I/O has been over for a few weeks and many videos were posted online. CSS day has passed, they put their videos on YouTube every week. And at the end of the month it is time for the […]