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Screenshot showing mockups of mobile layouts for Davor's upcoming personal website, davor.fyi

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Using Kinopio iOS running on my scratched up iPhone 12 mini

The Hybrid Architecture of Kinopio for iOS

https://music.apple.com/se/playlist/the-story-of-classical-part-i/pl.22a358bc99664e2cb25f1be386b21d36?l=en-GB

Welcome to Cosmos

Books | Oliver Burkeman

Today is the “Happy New Year” day. The “Healthy New Year begins tomorrow 😊

I think I am going to like Barbie more than I did Oppenheimer 🤷

Apart from some small shortcomings—e.g. inability to set border on specific sides of a box, instead of the whole box—gotta give credit to the https://penpot.app/ team 👏 

I'll be using Penpot to design my personal website for a 100% open-source-powered process 🙌

When I entered web design some 25 years ago, it was driven by a friendly and welcoming community of creative and curious people. Their positive energy was unlike anything I had seen before. ❤️
Where can one find such communities today?

Pondering about buying a Nintendo Switch OLED. Both to play on my own and with my family. 
Anybody who bought it then regretted the purchase? 😅

And you might say: "But Davor, a couple weeks back you posted about learning 3D design, and now you're suddenly zooming out and learning no-code. What's going on here?" And you'd be spot on. I am addicted to learning and improving.

UI designers are master chefs. UX designers are nutritionists.

Barefoot-style shoes and merino clothes – I've gone from the most difficult to the easiest person to buy gifts for 😄

Looking for a tried and tested Notion template for yearly > monthly > weekly > daily planning. Free or paid, the most important thing is that it doesn't add too much overhead, while providing insight and clarity. Any recommendations? 😊

I am a few days into the #100daysnocode course, and my imagination is boiling! 🤯
You know the expression, "Can't see the forest for the trees?" I can confidently say I haven't been too close to a tree – I have been living inside one! 🤣

Loved this video from Arc browser 😍
Feels like we're getting out of that dark hole the Web 2.0 has become 🙏🏻

Fediverse (Mastodon, Pixelfed), reemmergence of RSS and blogs, Arc browser, and now Posts. There is light at the end of the tunnel 🙌🏻

https://youtu.be/D77B1YqDgmw

You know that feeling of getting into something new, acquiring a new skill, and everything feels so uphill, like walking knee-deep in the mud? 🧗🏻
Yet, every step brings you joy because you realize this is precisely how one achieves mastery. 🧙🏻
I needed this. 😊

What does it take to imagine, design and build a website like https://www.deso.com/ – specifically the desktop version?

This week has been the most challenging and rewarding so far regarding my big goal of mastering Webflow in 2024. I was in a constant state of flow, overcoming one obstacle after another, learning by doing. I am a 5x better Webflow dev today than I was just 4 days ago 🙌

It's Monday morning. The kid's at school. The cats are fed and asleep. It smells of opportunity to do something fun and constructive ✨ Should I:
a) continue brushing up on my UI motion design skills?
b) refresh my memory about Webflow?
c) move some designs from Figma to Penpot?

Is anyone here using Penpot as their go-to design tool? I love the idea of an open-source alternative to Figma or Sketch, but not sure they are ready for prime time yet.

Finally! Started a joint venture with a great friend and made a tiny landing page for it: https://sogo.design 🙌

It took me 1,5 years working remotely from my home office to realize that "Hey! I don't *need* noise-canceling headphones when I'm working anymore. I could buy a pair of decent desktop speakers instead." 😄

How do you all like the name "Whiskers" for the design system of a company that has a tiger as their logo and spiritual animal? 🐯

I miss those days where every month or so I would go through the process of finding a great font face, a cool domain name, and build something new from scratch ✨

Meta’s threads app is a data-mining monster. A free app is free at what cost? Why are we so willing to give tech companies private data—significantly when these companies are pivoting into AI? Not trying to sound like a doomer, but do y’all remember Cambridge Analytica?

Learning Spline.design has been deliciously brutal 😍 It's painful in a good way. The same way stretching muscles feels – this is literally stretching my brain into the 3rd dimension 🤯

As a product designer who tested the design management waters for a while, I am still wondering – where is the FUN in design management? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've become one of those boring people who have found their happiness. Sorry! 😄

2024 mini challenge: master the skill of making French omelette with a stainless steel pan 💪

Part of a mini mission to replace all non-stick cookware with a sustainable alternative.

Getting my personal website underway, finally feels like I found a theme to build on. And yeah, forcing myself to design mobile-first makes a difference.

Never thought self-hosting open-source apps could be so easy and affordable! Huge thanks to https://www.pikapods.com/ for making it possible 🫶

Switched back from design management to being an IC and never looked back ☺️ 

Practicing design, hands on, sparks joy every day ✨

I'm 43, been designing for 25 years, and this has easily been one of the best career and life decisions I've made.

Looking to learn and eventually master https://spline.design/ - any good advice for how or where to begin? Any good tutorials, courses? 

Thanks in advance 🙏🏻

[New Blog Post]
The Hybrid Architecture of Kinopio for iOS 

A behind the scenes tale of how the new Kinopio iOS app came about, and how it was made

https://pketh.org/kinopio-ios.html

Apple Music Classical's "The Story of Classical" is an absolute gem! A perfect background play for diving deep into Figma 🤿 🎼
https://music.apple.com/se/playlist/the-story-of-classical-part-i/pl.22a358bc99664e2cb25f1be386b21d36?l=en-GB

My first 24h gathering inspiration from all over the Internet with https://www.cosmos.so/ have been so joyful and refreshing. I've got 3 invites to share with friends - let me know if you want one!

In other news, I bought a trackpad. I am switching from designing with the mouse my whole career to designing with a trackpad - at age 43. Wish me luck! 🍀🤞😅

wanted to bring my fuji but in the end, an iphone in portrait mode is just fine

The book "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" has had a profoundly calming effect on me. 
oliverburkeman.com/books

Not sure it would have moved me so strongly if I were in my 20s and not 40s. 

A great book and a perfect timing. Truly transformative ❤️

I bought a domain name. The rest shall be history. 🍀🥂