🛫 My Mac mini's fans sound like a plane taking off, and my agents keep landing PRs, so I built a fun little air traffic control view to keep up with them. See what's in flight, what's waiting on me, and what landed today. Each plane is a PR. My agent, Quokka, is air traffic control. The runway is the branch everything merges into, and ...

Basecamp 5 shipped in May, and with it a new calendar. Leading the design was one of my biggest projects this year, and a fun one to work on with Joseph. Here's a rundown of what's new and how it works. The redesign We transitioned from BC4's dot-grid calendar to a full calendar in BC5. We now show the next six weeks, with the current ...

HEY Calendar has had the Day and Week views since launch, but no way to see the full year at once. It’s early January—the perfect time to plan ahead. Add your work trip in May, the conference you may attend in June, a wedding in July. See it all at a glance. The inspiration came from a tweet and the big calendar that went viral on Inst...

At 37signals, we use the Shape Up methodology and work in 6-week cycles, followed by a 2-week cooldown. I’m Michelle, a senior product designer on the HEY team. For 2022’s Cycle 2, I worked on Bubble Up, HEY’s fresh take on snooze. Here’s my recap on the inner-workings of this feature and how we do it in Basecamp. At the end of the cyc...