A few closeup details of a quick access panel for running AI tasks

Batted 1.000 with @homeplate.deals during the regular season: there was at least one deal posted every single game. The postseason has quite a few gaps between games, so I needed to make an empty state. Simple, text-based, informative.

An early concept for generating content directly in an AI text editor

On October 1, 2015, I arrived in southern California after driving overnight during the last leg of a cross country move. A decade later, I'm still regularly inspired by this beautiful section of the country. Wishing myself a happy 10 year Californiversary 😄

Yep, inputs are still fun 😜

Making text-only UI user-friendly can be a great challenge. Well-defined and consistent columns with limited colors only used to emphasize.

Sometimes a mid-fidelity wireframe contains almost enough detail to be serviceable as a comp. This is one such instance from several years back, when I was designing a survey builder for a B2B SaaS involved in demonstrating customer satisfaction.

Input fields are so much fun. Maybe my favorite UI element. Layering details, accounting for various states. Saturday nights don't get much crazier than this. Progress of work marches on.

Some UI details of a recent floating action menu featuring a combination of custom and Nucleo icons

iOS 26 feature request for Apple: Intelligent Orientation Lock. 90% of the time, I leave Portrait Orientation Lock on. I only turn it off to view media in landscape orientation. I wish my phone understood this distinction and automatically locked/unlocked portrait orientation.

Once a user reports a phone number as spam, iOS 26 should clearly reflect this in its UI. I made a concept of how this could appear, improving text contrast and making icons more consistent while I was at it.

iOS 26's Stopwatch should utilize the same fun, oversized theme as UI on the Lock Screen when a timer finishes. Parts of iOS 26 are chomping at the bit to have fun, while other areas pull back, keeping some UI the exact same as past versions. It needs more cohesion.

Steeped in sepia

Updated. Back to our regularly scheduled non-orange programming tomorrow.

Created a video going through a bit of how I created this design and animation using @figma.com. Hope that folks find it useful and/or entertaining. youtu.be/Y58g-CaDb1o

Seeing if I can't make a nice wallpaper for this creamsicle.

I really like the dynamically sized iOS 26 Lock Screen clock typeface updates. But when supported media thumbnails appear on the Lock Screen, the dynamic typeface is replaced with tiny, boring text. I mocked up a solution.

I'd love to be able to view my @github.com contributions graph directly in the iOS 26 app. Mocked up how this could look, added some more Liquid Glass elements to the UI, and simplified things a bit.

While it's nice to be able to display app icons at a larger size without labels, the iOS 26 Dock inherits a mismatched corner radius issue. Liquid Glass should adapt to the specific corner radius amount of the device. I mocked a few concepts using the iPhone 15 Pro Max corner radius as my example.

I waited to install iOS 26 until the public release was ready. Overall, it's pretty nice. I've noticed the typical visual quirks, but it's not terribly jarring most of the time. That said, there's still a bug in the Clock app that has persisted since at least iOS 17.

Tab bar transition timing tweaks

I'd like to be able to view and sort by song tempo in @spotify.com playlists.

Friday :focus

Tuesday, September 11, 2001. 8:46 a.m. The start of the day that ended an era. 2,977 people woke up that day like every other before it, not realizing it would be their last. Each and every day is a gift. Cherish your loved ones and be kind to strangers.

Little idea I had when comparing iPhone 17 models today. Even faster column swapping on Apple's site.

Figma Community file updates coming soon. Full vector version of the highly anticipated Apple x Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte™ collaboration is in progress. 17 Pro Max Dynamic Island is the same size as 16 Pro Max, though top speaker is nearly twice as wide as 16 Pro Max.

When it works, @figma.com iOS is wonderful. When it crashes, I find myself tapping through a number of different screens just to get back to where I left off.

I know there's a workaround, but I just want a "Duplicate Note" feature in iOS, Apple. Please and thank you. It seems like iOS 26 might support it but I can't find any screenshot evidence of it. Guess we'll see this week.

If an email startup showed a “Report spam or unsubscribe?” modal after users clicked “Report spam”, I'd presume it was gauging interest and/or educating users on the difference between the actions.

 But, Gmail collects enough data to be able to predict users’ moods on a random day in 2035. 🧵

Working on an early iteration of @homeplate.deals native iOS app. Going to be a fun @mlb.com offseason preparing and visually updating it for 2026 opening day.

Little preview of a new series I'm launching next week. Excited about it 🙌

When icons appear on translucent elements, make sure you're accounting for the variation of background content. Clip mask fix for YouTube iOS notification indicator "The bigger the company, the more likely it is that simple design mistakes make their way into production."

A blank page is an invitation to start making something great.

Very rough draft. Eventually this will be photorealistic. Still a long way from that point but the challenge is the reward. Hundreds of humbling little details still needed.

Late night leaning letters on this Labor Day weekend. 1 in one

Mocked up the keyboard shortcuts I'd like to have while listening to @spotify.com podcasts on iPadOS. And cleaned up some alignment and UI issues while I was at it.

Friday night @figma.com frame fun

I'd like to be able to quickly select the inner elements of a frame/group in @figma.com. The current "Select All" feature menu supports selecting by visual properties of elements, but I'm looking to select by the element type. Mocked up a solution and polished the UI a bit.

How much do I think about UX? A lot. And it doesn't stop at digital products. I'm not the only person to be frustrated with the arrangement of variety pack beverages. I might be the only person to diagram a solution, though. 👀 I'm looking at you, @celsiusofficial.bsky.social

I'm biased but HBO Max has the best streaming service name. That said, I wish it allowed playback speed control, similar to @netflix.com, YouTube, and @spotify.com. I mocked up an iPadOS version of this feature, updating the visual design quality of the app UI as well.

Filtering table content can be a slog. User research mirrored my impressions of the previous Contentstack UX. I prioritized search and filtering improvements. Flexible and nestable search was a key feature, allowing users to easily search sub-categories.

Finally moved Daily Feed items to their own page and added navigation cards to the home page. Stacked border-radius and box-shadow effects for hover/focus states. There are a few nice details sprinkled throughout.

Was it necessary to create a custom background image using a single gradient? Nope Is it cool? I'd say so

It's 5 o'clock somewhere. Hope everyone has a great and safe weekend!

Deceptively simple at first glance, this table design allows customers to create groups for survey recipients.

Would love to be able to mute specific post types and topics from accounts on Twitter and @bsky.app. I'm a broken record and only post about design. At least I'm consistent 😄

It's good for you.

Before and after

"The bigger the company, the more likely it is that simple design mistakes make their way into production." @Spotify iOS has 6 different right-side alignment planes and 5 different left-side planes. 1px issues galore. I cleaned up the alignment and icon inconsistencies.

Occasionally, there's a cool idea that gets left on the cutting room floor for one reason or another. One such example, in my opinion, is this early UI exploration for Generation History I designed for copy.ai in 2022.