Toctic is a focus-time-blocking app that combines Pomodoro technique and the power of gamma brain wave sound to enhance focus.

Enhance focused with the power of time-blocking combined with gamma brain waves

✨ Fresh calendar icons on http://basicons.xyz

One of the biggest boosts to my productivity this year has come from Toctic https://www.toctic.app/ a tool I built for myself. It’s been totally worth the investment!

Here’s why the product designer role is losing relevance fast:

1. Lack of Business Focus

Designers these days, myself included often share screens and mockups, which, while visually impressive, do not address business priorities.

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If I’d have to choose, I’d take a designer who can PM over a designer who can code.

Since I discovered Canadian Dragons Den, I totally lost interest in Shark Tank. The kind of ideas Canadians pitch; mostly bizarre. Are Canadians ok?

Slack is the worst thing that ever happened to async communication and productivity. I hate it with every cell in my body.

Whoever designed the Photos app on iOS 18 needs to learn more about usability and design principles. They made the photos app unusable.

Crazy that this unpronounceable artiste has 1.7m monthly listeners. Imaging having to search for this artiste.

A reminder to not overthink it.

JUST CREATE!

Are we witnessing the end of tech as one of the most sought-after and secure career paths?

Miro and Dropbox laid off 18-20% of their employees?

I love how Apple doesn’t separate design from development. They see it as one and the same. And that’s how it should be.

Furniture design by yours truly.

An artistic furniture crafted from soft silicon, characterized by its smooth, rounded forms. This design emphasizes fluidity and comfort, blending functionality with sculptural elegance.

For some of you who are not on Twitter. This happened. AI right now gives me the dot com bubble vibes.

The MKBHD app saga is a reminder that DESIGN matters.

New “time-clock” icons on Basicons.

Good thing about using Basicons is that you can request custom icons, and we'll do our best to create them. For example, a designer working on an app recently requested a set of clock icons for various actions within the app & we delivered.

IQ is a fallacy. While each of us is both unique and similar in various ways, it’s our experiences that truly shape who we are.

I like the concept of digital-only banks, but they can be frustrating when there’s no one to speak to apart from unhelpful chatbots. Sometimes, I just wish I could directly confront someone and press their necks to demand answers about where my money is.

I know I’m exceptionally talented, but it feels good to be endorsed.

If you support or somehow justify the killing of innocent civilians, it’s only a matter of time before it’s you getting killed. What does around comes around.

Is it just me? Since Figma made the UI change, I’ve been experiencing some nasty bugs.

In theory, ‘empathy’ is the heart of design. In practice, it’s often buried under timelines, budgets, and ‘just ship it.’

Did you know you can use Figma on iPad? 

Some icons for http://basicons.xyz designed with Figurative, a Figma client for iPad.

Perplexity is simply the best. If you are still using Google, you are sleeping on a bicycle.

Someone explain to me what’s going on with Wordpress and WP Engine like I’m 5 years old.

The more I use LLMs, the more I strongly believe that LLMs are among the greatest inventions of our time. Once they fully go mainstream and become more capable, the productivity boost for humanity could be unlike any thing we've ever seen.

Just renamed her contact name to “Moo Deng”.

Someone needs to invent some technology to get designers and stakeholders get out of the feedback loop.

If I had known back then what I know now, I would have undoubtedly become a physicist and a chemist.

Which pain would you choose?:

1.Spend time meticulously designing loaders for every data instance, or
2.Challenge the engineering team to optimize the app’s performance so loaders become unnecessary?

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