jkhowland

Love the manifesto. Great list of things. I particularly like #1. It’s been a major focus of mine to focus my attention on things within my control. And in the current environment that’s definitely not easy.

What platforms will you use for your example clients?

Simple battery powered light that you can use to tell your coworkers to leave you alone when you need to focus.

Lol. I hate this list.

I don't want it to be true, because I want to believe in the best of people.

Unfortunately I think you may be right. It seems like the people that succeed in marketing are the people that agree with this. We all want to be Don Draper, but we probably just need to be (lil) green patch.

There are a lot of pieces to the prototyping; this post is by Andrew on prototyping the bluetooth with the RFDuino. The hardware they built is a dream to work with.

Feel free to ask questions about our prototyping process. We're excited to share.

I'm not sure. At this point we're actually considering on tying in with existing messaging APIs (Slack, Hipchat, Campfire, Google Hangouts)

We are actually planning on letting users customize their sign text. Also, you can change the color depending on availability.

My hope is that you'd actually have an entire work space with a sign on each desk.

That's our hope. I have a prototype on my desk and I love it.

I'd love to hear any ideas you guys have, or any thoughts on what we should talk about.

We're in prototype phase and we have done some overseas testing. We're also going through the process of building it for HomeKit.

I realize that money isn't everything. And developing for iOS means more than that. I do think, however, that it's weighing on the minds of a lot of people picking a career path.

Building for iOS gives you the ability to reach millions of people that care about design, and experience. I feel like a mobile gives you the opportunity to reach people in a more personal and intimate way than a web app.

The fact is, there are as many reasons for choosing a platform (web, iOS, or Android) as there are developers. I'm actually very interested in hearing other developers reasons.