Derek J
Web Designer
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About
Contact
Apr
23
My Silent Cofounders
Apr
22
To share is to live
Apr
11
A Shifting Season
Mar
31
The Family Farm Fire
Mar
24
1 year of making Harvous
Mar
21
Through the Glass Door
Mar
14
Hearing Spring
Mar
11
App First. AI Second.
Mar
11
Building for Tenants, Not Tourists
Mar
06
The Seduction of Sparkle
Mar
01
The AI Checkbox Fallacy
Feb
23
From Domain Collector to Problem Solver
Jan
21
A decade of unconditional love
Jan
07
The Joy of Inefficiency
Jan
05
Dyslexic Thinking
Dec
31
2024 Year in Review
Oct
03
My WordPress Era
Sep
09
It takes two... designers
Aug
09
The Mirage of Growth
Aug
06
Death by SOP
Jun
10
Launch Day
May
12
Mother's Day
Mar
15
AI Traffic Signals
Mar
15
Spectating game devlogs
Mar
02
Thirty-five
Feb
06
Redirecting Ideas
Jan
28
How I got into design
Jan
23
Limited Screen Time (LST)
Jan
07
Two strikes and the 80 percent rule
Jan
04
My goofy Grandpa
Sep
13
The missing soul of Steve Jobs
Apr
07
Seventy-three
Apr
06
2nd Time Watching E.T.
Mar
23
What a wild Hike
Mar
02
Thirty-four
Jan
20
Goodbye Tags
Dec
10
Despising Saturdays
Oct
24
How to make something simple with Jess Faccin from Canva
Oct
20
Partytrick: More than a website. It's a "no-code" web app.
Oct
17
The elephant in the room
Oct
15
Linear's Impromptu AMA on Figma
Sep
19
Leaving Apple Retail, Again
Jun
18
Love with an asterisk
Apr
08
Part-time designer
Mar
25
Expand your branding
Mar
02
Thirty-three
Feb
01
Building home
Jan
08
Button styling and expected function
Jan
06
My church I once designed for
Jan
05
Creating a brand voice matters
Dec
31
Bring on 2022
Nov
08
I voted for Trump in 2020
Oct
21
Prioritization
Oct
20
Bowen Design and Print
Jul
06
I fear abandonment
May
07
Sundays at Three
Jan
28
Making my dad proud
Jan
26
Nothing special, yet
Sep
10
Logos aren’t meant to sell products
Apr
26
Firework
Mar
02
Thirty-one
Feb
21
Groups
May
20
Leveling up my team
Oct
11
Saying Sorry
Feb
08
I got to hug my hero
Dec
31
Twenty-six
Oct
07
A man who changed the world
