Work Log

Exploring Some Big Design Changes for Sofa

After two months of grinding on a ton of infrastructure work to enable Smart Lists, this was the first week I was able to dive back into the fun stuff.

Goodbye Board Games

2022 was Sofa's best year by every metric and the product has reached an important milestone in terms of usefulness.

I Quit My Job

July was a busy and stressful month for me. I was working a lot behind-the-scenes to prep for quitting my day job to focus on Sofa full-time.

WWDC, Vision Pro, and a Preview of New Sofa Features

I’ve started working on a few new Sofa features that I've been prepping for a while and I'm happy to share some progress.

Sofa Updates - May 2023

The SwiftUI Detour

Since SwiftUI is the future of Apple development, I wanted to experiment by rebuilding some of my UIKit views with it.

Thinking Through Custom Items in Sofa

I recently added the ability for people to save custom items to Sofa. This post outlines the thinking behind the feature and how it works.

Implementing iOS 13 Dark Mode Settings in Sofa

In iOS 13, people will be able to choose a light or dark “theme” that will apply system wide. Regardless of what you think about dark mode, apps that don’t adopt this will stick out like a sore thumb.

Why I Made Sofa FREE

I go over the reasons for making Sofa a free app.

The Story of a PITA Button

I try to get a button working. Yes. A button.

Researching the Sofa App Store Page

I conducted research on the Sofa App Store page. I also discuss the process & tools used to conduct the research.

Let's Design Quick Add

A video showing you the process I went through to design Quick Add in Sofa.

How a Designer Built and Shipped an iOS App in 6 Months

There’s a constant debate about whether or not designers should learn to code. While I’m happy to talk about that at length, I think it’s helpful to look at it from a different perspective.

The Road to Sofa 1.0

When we started working on Sofa, it was very different from what you see today. In fact, it wasn’t even called Sofa. It was called many things: Movie Night, Movie List, and Movie Pal just to name a few. I wanted to share a little bit of the story about how we got to Sofa 1.0.