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March 2023
56 // The Challenge of Building on UI Conventions: A Formable Update
I’m resisting the temptation to write about AI this week. Instead I’ll say a few words about how Formable isn’t intuitive and how that might stem from…
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55 // A Day on the Playground
As many of you know, GPT-4 was released this week, and since I got access I of course had to play with it a little. A couple of months ago, this…
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54 // Tables and Canvases
Writing about this has been on my list for a while. These ideas aren’t very polished, but might still be interesting. The main idea here is that there’s…
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53 // Note Taking as a Puzzle
I want to share with you another way to look at Formable: It’s formable tools. Build what you want with it, just like you would with legos. I like this…
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February 2023
52 // That’s a Year
52 weekly newsletters. I think I missed one week, but I’ll call it a year now. I’ll use this opportunity to read through some past issues and reflect on…
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51 // Listening to Users
In this week’s newsletter a bit more on what I’ve been up to: Feedback To put it briefly: Organising what I hear from all of you is a fun challenge…
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50 // Turn Chaos Into Clarity
Hi everyone, As mentioned last week, I’ve been working on a new landing page for Formable. The current one does a pretty bad job at explaining what the…
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49 // Positioning Formable
In this post I ponder on how to market and position Formable. Spoiler: It’s a rather unorganised brain dump and I’m not coming to any big conclusions…
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January 2023
48 // AI in Formable
In the last year, I was a bit reluctant to get super excited about AI. At least compared some friends and people in tech who are always on the bleeding…
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47 // Formable Mobile App
Since Formable is so domain-unspecific, it’s going to be hard to build a mobile UI that will work for everyone. Would one even want to build filters on…
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46 // Experimenting With New Views
It’s the weekend, so I can take some time to do play around with some less urgent things. As I’ve written in one of the earlier issues of this…
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