Luke Mitchell | Product Designer

I have an email address that you’ll find in the footer below this post, I rarely get emails to it, the ones I do get fall into two categories: very, very kind people paying compliments to me about this website; secondly some sort of cold email, usually fr…

One of my favourite cookbooks is ‘Ruhlman’s Twenty: 20 Techniques, 100 Recipes, A Cook’s Manifesto’ by Michael Ruhlman.

“Just build it faster” says the stressed stakeholder.

I was reading Manu’s post about ‘old tech’ and suddenly thought, markdown is really, really good.

A screenshot of a product on the marketplace ‘Temu’, the product is described as “Portable Pet Chicken Carrier Bag - Durable Polyester, Ideal for Ducks & Roosters Travel and Catching Duck Coop Accessories Chicken Accessories For Chickens”, the product ima…

Jane makes some great points about how software just isn’t the solution to the problem we think it is, in ‘Nobody wants to use any software’, and how software can make everything worse for people.

I often use the analogy that when we design for print, what are we doing over and over again?

Christopher’s thoughts on sharing, and engaging online are really close to my own feelings.

I have been collecting bookmarks for quite a while, as you read this there are 1112 of them, which shocks me, they really build up fast.

I don’t have a Spotify wrapped to share this year.

Like David I think it’s going to be a long time before the interfaces I sometimes daydream about will get close to reality, for me the Vision Pro is the first view into the future, which surprised me.

One of my pet peeves is cloning a project to start work and finding that the setup instructions don’t exist, aren’t complete, or don’t work.

I was nodding along to Nicholas’ response to an article about Gen Z and technology, and how it’s apparently ridiculous that they cannot use a printer.

Like a almost everyone I work with I’m thinking a lot about how all this new fangled AI stuff will change my work.

I’m currently thinking about writing case studies for my work, I didn’t know where to start, so I did what I do when starting any project, some research; I needed to define what I think makes a good case study.

An MVP (Minimal Viable Product) is an excellent way to build and launch fast.

I’m sometimes asked which app I use to manage my time, to-dos or plans.

The day my daughter stood up by herself for the first time.

This tweet from Kyle (Thanks Nick), struck chord with me: Feels like a lot of extroverts are hitting a wall with the pandemic recently.

I’ve been trying something lately to try and improve how I keep track of the document the progress on projects, without a huge time investment.

I’ve been thinking a bit about how I consume from the web, to improve my digital health.

I used to spend a lot of time customising how my Home Screen, dock and desktop looked.

Since the lockdown, all of us at thoughtbot have been working from home.