The app is coming together nicely. Over the last few weeks, I've been working on multi-device support while adding small touches to improve the overall user experience. Let's take a look!   Today Timer I've very happy with how this view is coming along. …

I’ve been working hard on my side hustle for the last few months. It’s the same project I started a few years back, but it’s finally all coming together. Fundamentally, the app is the same: an activity log with a periodic timer. It’s the …

I recently completed the high-fidelity designs for the Obvious MVP (minimally viable product). Most of my time was on finalizing abstract features like timers, multiple journals, and tags. I also had to embrace challenges native to Apple OSes, such as window sizes and dark …

I’ve been having a lot of fun building interactive prototypes for Obvious, my activity journal app. Two of my prototypes are guided walkthroughs of the Timer and Journal sections. The third is a heavily-wired simulation of cycling through a set of work sessions and …

I recently completed my second round of wireframes for my Productivity Log app [update: now named Epilog]. In the first round, the goal was to take the layout of my Mac prototype and translate it to the iPhone and iPad. This time, I had …

My productivity app is coming along, albeit slowly. There have been some significant changes behind the scenes which have required some ramp up before I could move forward. This post is mostly a progress report to talk about changes I made a while ago …

An early step in UX design methodology is creating user types or personas for your product. For this exercise, I wanted to explore how my app might serve different user types, specifically the timers. A productivity log solves a personal problem I have: keeping …

In my last post, I mentioned I had started working on a redesign for my time journal app. My strategy was two-fold: separate the journal into its own window and simplify the entry pane. I used this opportunity to try out some conventional UX …