design

Oct
02
Tar-pit ideas

Tar-pit ideas

Tar pit ideas are ideas that on the surface seem good, but are difficult to get right and swallow you up.
2 min read
Oct
09
Building Runtime in 3 weeks with $100 of GPT-4

Building Runtime in 3 weeks with $100 of GPT-4

With the help of GPT-4 and a bit of patience, I built Runtime, a small web-app that makes it easy to template prompts that you'd normally be copy-pasting into ChatGPT.
7 min read
Nov
22
Sketch symbol best practices (now that nested overrides are a thing)

Sketch symbol best practices (now that nested overrides are a thing)

Best practices for designing high quality reusable symbols in Sketch.
5 min read
Mar
15
Adding icons to links

Adding icons to links

Using css :before and :after to decorate links with icons.
2 min read
Oct
19
Using Sketch Symbols to create Material quick-guides

Using Sketch Symbols to create Material quick-guides

I often find myself creating quick-boxes to snap align stuff to, especially when designing for Material. Here I explain the idea behind using Symbols to create faster guides in your Sketch documents.
2 min read
Jul
15
My Sketch shortcuts

My Sketch shortcuts

Turbo-charge Sketch by adding custom shortcuts.
2 min read
Oct
19
Rethinking recipes

Rethinking recipes

Recipes can be tricky to decipher, especially when you're inexperienced, in the middle of cooking and under pressure. Here, we analyse some existing recipe formats and ideate some improvements.
10 min read