Now

Making

Recently, I got involved in a project for a really huge B2B SaaS. The main challenge is that the goal isn’t to create something new, but to transfer existing functionality from a 90s-era interface to a new and modern one, adapting the designs from another vendor. Doesn’t sound like a dream project, but after the first weeks of fear and confusion passed, excitement took their place. We'll see where this path takes me.

When I have some time left, I'm vibe-coding a simple timer app for undistracted practices. Boy, is it hard to code when you don’t really know how to program, but I’m trying. Also, it seems pretty expensive to own an iPhone and try to develop something for it—even for personal use.

Actually, no: most of the time I’m sleeping, reading, and lifting weights at the gym.

Doing

Sorting things out in terms of what I can do for the local community and fellow designers. While Belgrade is getting hotter and hotter (thanks to both global warming and ongoing protests) it’s not the best time to organize in-person gatherings – but I hope my plans are only postponed, so stay tuned.

Also, I with the help of my coworkers, I started a series of Lean Coffee meetings whithin our UX department. It turns out to be successful: there is a stable core of people, who once a week come to an online meeting, that starts 30 minutes earlier than their workday, just to see each other and chitchat about design and their recent events.

In the meantime, I’ve applied to a mentoring school—to work through my relationship with design, mentoring, and mentoring designers. Honestly, lately I’ve been feeling like a cup full of water that keeps getting poured into.

Reading

Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz
Spectral Life: Thinking in the age of metaverses and generative AIs by Eric Sadin (Russian translation from French)

Drinking

Ice latte