Things we learned between projects.
Short, warm notes from the studio, little lessons, happy accidents, and opinions about software we hold maybe too strongly. Written by whoever had the thought.
The one-day fix that took ten minutes
A café swore their order form was cursed. It wasn't, it was one missing checkbox. Here's why we still charge for the looking, not just the fixing.
Why we write the words before the design
Pretty boxes with "lorem ipsum" lie to you. We draft real copy first so the layout has to carry actual sentences, and the whole site comes out warmer.
Six browser tabs is a feature request
When a client juggles tabs every Sunday, that's not a habit, it's a tool waiting to be built. How we turn workarounds into one calm screen.
Handover videos beat handover docs
Nobody reads the 12-page manual. Everybody watches the 5-minute video. A small note on why we record our screens instead of writing novels.
In praise of the boring database
The flashiest stack rarely wins. We pick the calm, dependable, slightly dull tools so your thing still runs in three years, cats permitting.
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