Why Hearthstone is so Addictive: 6 Lessons for Non-Game Mobile Apps

User engagement and retention…

The one user touchpoint almost every mobile app ignores

What Slack, Spotify, and Billguard can teach…

How to automatically generate different profile photos when designing in Sketch

Getting to Pocket Inbox Zero

Pocket is a fiendishly addictive metagame for reading that helps you read more than you normally would. But the game makes it difficult to engage deeply with text, and…

How Uber makes airport pickups easier

I fly in from New Orleans to New York. The airport taxi line is long and unyielding so I…

Listening to Ep. 1 of “Doing Your Business”

Observations after listening to the show about profitable non-tech, non-VC backed companies

Who Will Own the eBook Want-to-Read Graph?

It could be Readmill. On the ebook reader app’s most…

Comment timestamps as (tiny) designed objects

Realizing that apps are the byproduct of hundreds of small, intentional decisions

While working on a mobile app design project last night, I was struck all over again by…