Michelle Harjani

Senior product designer at 37signals.
January 7, 2026

Building HEY Calendar’s Year View

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...
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June 21, 2022

Bubble Up: From kickoff to launch

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...
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