- 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 build-in-public obra-studio process
I’ve noticed that a lot of people are following my story, which incentivizes me to write. Currently, I am doing design work for a start-up I believe in, while also juggling recruiting and business development. I am working 10 to 12 hour days and most weekends. It’s not sustainable, but I have the energy. My […]
- Posted in aspirations build-in-public entrepreneurship 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 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 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 […]
- Posted in build-in-public figma-plugins screenshot-to-layout
Earlier this week I thought through the contour feature for Screenshot to Layout . This is a future feature, that essentially adds a second layer of output to the plugin, with the goal of visualizing clear shapes in the processed screenshot, so that the designer can use it as a reference point for further work. […]
- Posted in build-in-public figma-plugins screenshot-to-layout
I am doing an investment in taking Screenshot to Layout to to the next level. I am working together with a few freelancers, each skilled in their own right, from making plugins for graphic design apps to advanced Javascript wizardry. Together we will improve the plugin. I want to write a bit of a “devlog” […]
- Posted in build-in-public figma-plugins screenshot-to-layout
I whipped up a quick landing page at https://screenshottolayout.com . It contains instructions on how to get started and a quick demo. It’s pretty ugly but will do the job for now I think. I released the plugin for free earlier this week, hoping to get some feedback from Figma users. So far a few […]
- Posted in build-in-public figma figma-plugins
You can use my Figma plugin Screenshot to Layout to generate editable text from a screenshot. Select an image in Figma, run the plugin command “Process image”, and then see a Figma layout appear with editable text. You can see how it works in this video: This plugin is extremely useful to quickly start working […]
- Posted in bootstrap build-in-public obra-icons
I launched an indie project called Obra Icons on October 1st. This is a report of how it’s going. The initial version took me about 7 days of work total + around 3 days of external freelancer’s work to work out the initial version. What is it? It’s a set of 750+ vector icons, both […]