Introducing the Three Zone Navigation System, an intuitive navigation design system for apps and websites. What if all apps and websites had a similar navigation system? It would be much more intuitive, as you don’t have to spend time on figuring out how to use a new service. You are…

What if the iPhone 8 isn’t a phone at all? What if all the leaks (more than usual?) are just to distract reporters from the real innovation — an AR/VR headset to replace smartphones altogether? I had a lunch conversation with Nevyn Bengtsson the other day, and he lauded Apple’s…

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Our list of bugs was growing. Something drastic had to be done. So we built a game. — At Weld we’re building a code-free tool, but we sure are generating a lot of code. And a lot of bugs. Our issue list on GitHub was stacking up something fierce, and something drastic had to be done. Then someone in the team said: “Let’s build a game!” We wanted…

Here’s my “Rule of 10” for functions, components and modules: If a function has >10 lines of code, break out into multiple functions. If a component has >10 functions, break out into multiple components. If a module has >10 components, break out into multiple modules. Update 1: I break these rules on a daily basis… Update 2: Something I noticed recently, is that when I break up my code in micro functions, it’s much easier to spot repetitive and redundant code. I aim for tiny functions calling other tiny functions.

I made a trip to Italy recently, and on the plane I started thinking of a coding problem I was working on at Weld. I had a rough idea, but I wanted to express it as an algorithm. …

It might sound like science-fiction, but it makes sense. AI’s are becoming increasingly powerful, but creativity is not their strongest suite. But they’re great at performing tasks such as organizing, counting KPI’s, and doing administrative tasks. Tasks which creative entrepreneurs are less adept for. Paired with a creative entrepreneur, they could form a strong team. Man and machine, working as one.

I’m a big fan of both Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas and Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas, but sometimes both can be a bit unwieldy. At Weld we’re constantly refining our business model, and we needed something faster. So we made this: The Napkin Business Canvas The Napkin Business Canvas is a super-agile business model…

There’s been an awakening. Have you felt it? Building apps without coding has been a long time joke among my more technical friends. The very idea is belittled, ridiculed, dismissed. I blame Dreamweaver. Adobe’s early attempt at a WYSIWYG web creation tool backfired, it’s bloated output created a distrust in…