I’ve started my career on the graphic design 🎨 side of life. Later gradually morphed into user interface design which led me to learn to program just so I could control the entire process and create things on my own.Continue reading…So… how’s the weather over there? How many times have you washed your hands today? Skin so dry that it started cracking? Get a good hand moisturiser, apply generously and it will get better. 🌞Continue reading…Although I had a version of the backend API done a couple of years ago (!), it was a rookie version. I had very little experience with Laravel at the time, so make plenty of mistakes and the result was a patchwork of copy and paste solutions that I didn’t really understand. 🤦♂️Continue reading…It’s the middle of February, so it should still be ok to start a New Year goal. Right? 😬 I’ve been wanting to launch this project for years but haven’t taken the commitment seriously enough to make it a priority.Continue reading…Summer! Won’t last much longer. Yet it’s time for another long-due update. Already 6 months went by and I didn’t write any journal updates. I’ve been working on a client project which consumed much of my daily dose of available focus and yes, I’ve been a little lazy. In a more positive light, I’ve started building a prototype.Continue reading…It’s been 6 months since I started putting the first UX ideas on paper and considering the product viability. Between work, travel and Christmas got this delayed a lot. (Laaaaazy!) Anyway…!Continue reading…Now that I got the brand basics right-ish, it’s time to focus on the app itself. Maybe because I prefer the Android side, I’m also leaning towards a material design approach to the app interface. I like most of the UX solutions provided and believe it’s a solid working foundation.Continue reading…Lately I’ve been getting more interested in traditional methods of design. Using again just my hands, paper and pencil. And eraser. A lot of erasing. But it’s been fun, above all.Continue reading…Started reviewing ideas yesterday, but only today started working on the brand. First things first: decide the name. Ran a selection of names through friends and family to avoid only english-natives.Continue reading…The project’s Trello board keeps growing. In the last couple of days I added an acceptance criteria to all the user stories, making them easier to understand and test the requirements later. The acceptance criteria is just a short to-do list with all the things that need to happen to enable the user story.Continue reading…Crap. It’s been a while. Between family visiting and joyful weekends, ended up getting side tracked for a couple of weeks. But today was a productive day. Back to work on lean planning. Mainly writing epics and breaking them down into user stories.Continue reading…Aaah, planning! You know that saying "rather spend most of the time defining the problem and only a tiny fraction solving it"? The one usually attributed to Einstein (even though there’s no evidence he actually said it)?Continue reading…Today I decided to really do something about an idea. An idea I’ve had for a while but only started taking shape a few months back. What started some 8 years ago as random notes stored in my Evernote, gradually grew into its own dedicated notebook with some added structure.Continue reading… 
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The ups and downs of bringing this app to life