Matt Swanson’s Blog

I was prompted to write a year in review and had to dust off this blog.

Advice without context All software advice is wrong.

I spent the month of December completing the #DailyUI challenges – a series of design prompts.

Creative Selection (“Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs”) is a first-hand account of Ken Kocienda’s project history at Apple.

This tweet was sent about 2 hours ago.

I’ve been on a dozen committees (or “company initiatives” or “recurring discussions” or “organizational development groups”) and their value has varied wildly.

A while back I was on a project and, for whatever reason, our team started checking every morning to see what holiday it was and to bond over the absurdity of some of the holidays.

I’ve been having conversations at work about how to evaluate software project opportunities for our firm.

A super tactical list for starting a peer group.

It’s been over five years since Marc Andreessen proclaimed that “software is eating the world”.