Ludwig Wendzich

This week I wanted to share a few thoughts about how I went about building a SwiftUI app in a month. This isn’t going to be a technical article. I might get into some technicalities, but I wanted to focus on the trade-offs that I had to make, and the process that I employed to make those trade-offs.

In 2017 my wife and I did Plastic Free July and later we wrote “Zero Waste” to help people try to live Zero Waste in Auckland, NZ.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. On Earth, as it is in heaven.

The tl;dr: MailChimp only want commercial mail to be sent using their service—or at least will enforce laws that apply to commercial email, on all email you send using their service. This means policies like double opt-in, are enforced on all lists, even those used for personal correspondence and thus, not subject to these laws. Use CampaignMonitor instead.

I’m the Director of User Experience at Vend. That means I’m in charge of the design team and delivering a great experience for retailers when they use our product. I can’t do this alone, of course, I’m going to need you.

The traditional approach to job hunting is to use recruiters. I was surprised to find out that recruiters are extremely expensive. Sponsoring Gather is a much better use of your recruitment budget.

Simplicity is about removing excess information. And in digital design, that’s often removing the imitations of reality. But to some, these imitations are so important. We think they provide us affordances. But do they?