In between jobs, the only computer at my disposal has been a Windows machine I built for gaming last summer. Until recently I’d only ever used it as a launcher for Steam or Warzone, but now I needed to use it as a development box. For the first time in…

In the changelog notes of Sketch 51, Bohemian Coding quietly announced that Sketch now supports “a URL protocol for adding Sketch Libraries backed by RSS feeds to Sketch”. At Salesforce, we were eager to make use of this feature as we’ve recently been using our internal design platform Xray to…

One of the things that I’m always tinkering with is the tools I use to do work. Are these the right tools for the job? Am I as productive as I could be with them? In this post I’m going to share some designer productivity challenges we faced within Heroku…

We’re only a few days in to the new year and I can’t help but feel it’s already been a massive disappointment. As a 13 year old, if you’d have asked me what an article about tech in 2017 would be about, I’d have probably said it would be a…

What we’ve learned at Heroku — One of the many things that makes Heroku unique is that about 60% of our employees are remote with the remaining 40% based out of our beautiful office in San Francisco. When I mention our remote to onsite ratio to friends, I get the same look of incredulity normally followed…

This essay was originally written for the January 2016 edition of .net Magazine. Blame your tools Looking back to 20 years ago, our workflow for web design relied heavily on creating a hi-fidelity, fixed canvas in Photoshop that would then be mimicked in HTML and FTPd out into the world. Since then, the…

Bohemian Coding recently released Sketch 3.4 which ships with lots of new features, the most exciting perhaps being ‘local sharing’. Local sharing allows you to quickly grab a link to preview live changes to your Sketch document which anyone on your network can view with a web browser. There’s one…

Back in December, I lamented the lack of social interaction and collaboration that is inherent in the design tools that we use everyday. In contrast to our toolset we use to make our apps, designing together on Photoshop, Sketch, Affinity or whatever else you’re using, is essentially impossible. The root…

With the rise of Git & GitHub, we’re living in a golden age for programming “together”. How long must we wait for the same thing in design? — I consider myself a bit of a dabbler when it comes to development. I love hacking around with stuff with no real goal or purpose. …