Thoughts, Ideas & Opinions

It was a long-practiced, and heartwarming activity: When you started working on a new website project, you looked around in the preview or cases section …

Claude Design can replace Canva/Figma for casual design tasks, and is going for more. It infiltrated my workflow when I started using it for experimenting …

Casual graphic designers creating simple things like sliders or flyers for social media have long since moved to Figma, Canva, or a gazillion other tools. …

How far away are we from this scenario: Prompt: “Based on everything you know about me, create the perfect operating system for me.” Then I …

Maybe. But at prototype stage, that’s okay. AI builds from established patterns: the buttons, the flows, the color systems your users already know. No friction. …

The amount of stuff you push out — in content, apps, feature updates, socials — your bandwidth has increased. But what about your audience’s brain? …

When “going online” became popular in the 90ies, the Internet was a cozy place with few communication options; it was the Usenet, email, or building …

The hype about Mastodon is flattening. But does that mean Mastodon will vanish? Let’s compare it to another social app that went viral, Clubhouse. Clubhouse …

The Fresh van Root newsletter features 4-5 apps/tools/services twice a month, from content creation, marketing, productivity, web creation, and more. In 2022, I tested and …

I am happy to announce that our team is growing. Let me introduce you to Olena. She joined Fresh van Root beginning of April as …