- Posted in agency-life obra-studio
I want to talk about six months of Obra Studio. Time flies while having fun, right? I started work on the company after my honeymoon in December last year and I feel I didn’t really stop. People who know me personally will know that I have sort of personal deadline coming up in July, so […]
- Posted in workflow
How to kill processes that are running on a certain port? For example, I am running shadcn but I get an error that the port is in use (“EADDRINUSE”). How can you fix that? For example for port 4000 – list the processes (PIDs in macOS): Then kill those processes: That should do the trick!
- Posted in rant - 1 comment
Just want to give a bit of warning about Adobe’s shady plan practices. I use Photoshop and occasionally Lightroom, and I pay €9.99/month for the photography plan. On top of that, I sometimes need Illustrator, and then I’m paying about €35 per month for Illustrator. Now I wanted to just get some stock photos for […]
- Posted in conference process rant
I watched this Beyond tellerand talk by Matthias Ott and it really made me think. So much that I wrote this long blog post. This is a bit of a niche rant that will only interest a very specific audience, but I wrote it, so I might as well publish it. Lately I’ve been having […]
- Posted in agency-life build-in-public obra-studio ondernemen
Deze week ben ik nog eens in België. Ik reis een paar keer per jaar tussen België en Mexico, en mijn primair doel van de laatste twee trips was werkgerelateerd. Ik ben bezig met de opbouw van Obra Studio en telkens ik in België ben is het goed om klanten in het echt te zien, […]
- Posted in agency-life build-in-public obra-studio ondernemen
Ik heb gisteren na 4 maanden eindelijk nog eens de tijd gevonden om een ritje te maken met de fiets. Een vriend had een volgwagen geregeld. Met zijn drieën gingen we op weg naar Teotihuacan (ongeveer 60km van Mexico-Stad). Het was een fantastische fietsrit en ik was blij om nog eens iets anders te doen […]
- Posted in obra-studio ondernemen
Currently, I am about four months in starting up my new agency. I wanted to document a bit of the journey as we move forward. Starting a company has its ups and downs and is definitely not as stable a job as working for a product company, but most days I couldn’t be any happier […]
- Posted in blijvend-leren build-in-public entrepreneurship obra-studio ondernemen
You can have these dreams about a cool design agency, but in the end, you have to treat it like a business. But if you treat it too much like a business, it becomes something else, something you might not agree with. This blog post is about purpose, strategy and vision. Three highly conceptual topics. […]
- Posted in apps design design-systems development workflow
This week I got a chance to try out Subframe. It’s a new design tool that is slightly hard to position within the category of design tools. Subframe follows the logic of Subform (RIP) where you are not working on a free canvas, but all your designs are “auto layout” by default. A tool like […]
- Posted in ai obra-studio
This final post continues my blog posts based on the conclusions of my trip to Belgium. This one is about how AI changes the game for designers. I was in a lot of conversations in the past weeks. One overarching theme was the change to design as a job. The big shift that is happening […]