Made a list of tools I have used for more than five years. Every single one opens fast and says nothing when I'm not using it.

Still the best argument for putting notes beside the text. Most of what this site does with sidenotes started here.

Year two of answering email on Thursdays. One client now does it too. Small wins.

I keep a channel of interfaces that feel calm. It's the closest thing I have to a mood board.

Turned off every badge on my phone for a week. I did not miss a single thing that mattered.

Ordered ten more A5 grid notebooks. Notebook ten of the grid paper year begins Monday.

You hear tram 28 two streets before you see it. Best loading state in the city.

If a product has no undo, it has decided that your mistakes are your problem. Worth noticing.

Spent another afternoon at the National Tile Museum. Five hundred years of one square, repeated.

A client asked what an afternoon costs. Easier to answer than an hour ever was.

Audited the defaults in a client's app. Three of them protected the company. None protected the person.

Read the new essay out loud twice. Cut four hundred words. It's better.

Jef Raskin's book is twenty-five years old and still reads like a code review of today's apps.

An empty inbox screen should feel like a finished day, not an upsell.

Protected two studio days this week. Wrote, sketched, fixed my own website. Felt like a designer again.

Watched an installer sit at 99% for six minutes. Never animate progress you haven't made.

Owning your own site feels old-fashioned and slightly radical at the same time. Good combination.

The notebook pages I return to most are the messiest ones.

Before any review: what happens if I'm wrong here? The answer tells you everything.

Lisbon in February: blue tiles, low sun, and the first café tables back on the pavement.