April showers bring May flowers. 📷 Shot on !Camera

Simple tips on how to take more natural, film-like photos on your phone (hint: lower exposure) by @dgriffinjones.bsky.social

Grateful to have received a New Aesthetics grant and join this impressive inaugural crew exploring a new era of aesthetics. newaesthetics.art/grants

By pure coincidence, the same week we released a Guava skin for !Weather, Apple released a Guava phone case… and, of course, they look pretty together.

We made !Boring stickers! Collection of 30 hand-drawn !Boring app achievements printed in stunning metallic foil. Class up your phone, airpods case, laptop, water bottle. Illustrations by Allen Lau notboring.shop/products/bo...

Zero data isn't just a customer perk, it's really for me. We've normalized optimizing all the joy out of our businesses. One way to push back is to not put that weapon in your hand and instead collect no data.

Whoa! (Not Boring) Camera is up for an Apple Design Award. Massive thanks to all of you who support our wild ideas and afford us the room to play and make beautiful, useful things 🙏

You can build things that promise to automate work so people can “focus on the things that actually matter”… Or you can, you know… build the things that actually matter.

The best software design is not happening at the biggest companies anymore. (credit: @gruber.foo)

Stop drawing flat fish.

Looking for someone to help shape the brand with our dream team recreating historic software moments on historyofsoftware.org

The Empire !Camera

If the Empire designed a camera…

My new favorite !Camera… Artist Series № 1 : Sam Peitz

Introducing… the !Camera Artist Series We're turning !Camera into a canvas for the most inspiring software artists working today. 01 : Sam Pietz : Sam took his distinctive playful illustration style to every knob and dial of !Camera.

I pray that I might one day have the creative range of Hans Zimmer.

Make your work real. Make Posters. Albums. Toys. Stickers.

Rule #1 of making not boring software is to understand the full canvas of software. It's not patterns and components. It's millions of individual pixels that will do, show, & respond to whatever you desire 120×/second. We've barely just begun.

Be good to your mother.

Made a little section in !Weather to track your all-time stats…

Best part of the new !Weather skin picker is we added a full live preview if you're not (yet) a supporter.

Made a fresh new !Weather skin picker… more visual, expandable, faster.

Designers who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

"Claude Design, create a not boring weather app"

New in !Weather… More of a knots person? Customize your units 📏

New !Weather Update… The more you weather, the more playful, hand-drawn stickers with shader effects you collect (art by Allen Lau)

Looking for a 3D designer to join our amazing crew recreating historic software moments on historyofsoftware.org

Build an idea, not a business. Share work rather than guard it. Find collaborators rather than competitors. Move culture rather than markets. Build an idea, not a business.

Alright… enjoying this !Camera skin so much I just had make a real version of it with all the decals.

Close look at the new Moonshot !Camera

LOVE this. ❤️

New Moonshot !Camera—inspired by the beautiful design heritage of space exploration with details like the gold radiation shield wrap, NASA red lens, and a B&W mono LUT inspired by the Hasselblad's taken to the moon. 📷 Hit the QR code to grab it

Occasionally one of my random posts pops off, and every single one follows the same pattern where the more people it reaches, the further the engagement quality drops until it's pure drivel. If only all those out there desperately trying to go viral knew just how unbearably boring it is.

Still mindblowing that you can take photos like this on a phone 📷 (Not Boring) Camera

First batch of Not Boring Vibes 12" vinyl records shipping out today.

Sound & music is vastly underutilized & underappreciated in software. What's your favorite example of software sound design (excluding games)? Drop it below and we'll send the top-voted nominator and nominee a free Not Boring Vibes 12" vinyl.

Big update to !Camera brings 2× (48mm) and 8× (200mm) zoom.

Most great work is not newsworthy.

First app to release an original soundtrack?

Introducing the Not Boring (Official Soundtrack)! 14 vibey tracks composed by Thomas Williams from his work on the Not Boring apps collection. Featuring new original artwork on a gatefold jacket with 12" clear vinyl + lossless audio download. notboring.shop/products/not...

Seattle Snow Day. 📷 (Not Boring) Camera / Mono Faded by Nuevo.Tokyo

Snow Day in Seattle 🌨️ (Not Boring) !Weather

I don't much love talking, but Tommy has a way of making it interesting. Learn about our craft and the ideas behind 5 years of !Boring software. Watch the full 37 minutes and sub to Tommy's channel for more conversations with software designers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XA...

Honored I was asked to judge the inaugural Mobbin Awards App of the Year. Congrats to Tolan, Family, Arc, Open, Suno, Headspace for their achievements in pushing app design.

Don't forget to have fun. It's just software.

Cacti of Arizona 📷 Shot on !Camera (unedited, SuperRAW, straight off the iPhone 17 Pro)

If you want to do your life's work, do it slow. New article on my reflections of 5 years building @notboring software → notbor.ing/words/the-j...

!Boring is turning 5! And what's a 5 yr old birthday party without ice cream? Try our new flavorful skins persimmon, sesame, & guava. Come and grab a scoop.