Assistants are starting to use mobile apps without opening them. You ask Siri to move a booking, no screen appears. So what's left to design there? Mostly words, and the rules around them. New piece in Bootcamp: medium.com/design-bootc...
Do I need an app in 2026? 2010: yes. 2015: a website will do. 2026: yes again. Thank Siri and Gemini. My take š dev.to/goodbarber/t...
A model gives you the average of everything it has seen. IMO, taste is noticing when that average is wrong. medium.com/design-bootc...
Stop treating AI like a human, an agent is not a colleague. The problem isn't what we believe about the machine. It's what we hand it: pull requests, sprints, standups, all built for people. My take š dev.to/goodbarber/o...
New feature out: your GoodBarber app now answers Siri. "What's new?" gets a spoken reply. First brick of something bigger: making your app usable from an assistant, not just from its icon. Proud of my mates. Joao wrote it up š www.goodbarber.com/blog/siri-ac...
Day one with total freedom feels great. Nothing is decided for you, nothing has broken yet. The invoice is dated year two š dev.to/goodbarber/t...
Shopify is moving its mobile apps back to Swift and Kotlin. We never left, and the bet paid in a way we didn't expect : dev.to/goodbarber/e...
You described an app in natural language. The AI built it, it works. Can you trust it enough to ship it, when you can't review code you can't read? hellomathieup.medium.com/trust-is-the...
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The value of an engineer's writing was never the prose. It's the scar tissue. The machine can write a beautiful paragraph about caching. It wasn't there for the decisions that aged badly on us, or for what it took to walk them back. hellomathieup.medium.com/an-engineer-...
Most app builders ship a pile of themes. A theme encodes results. A design system encodes rules, so it still works on the combinations nobody anticipated. Here's ours, layer by layer: hellomathieup.medium.com/we-formalize...
Completely agree. And it's bigger than GitHub. Scrum, PRs, sprints, all built to coordinate humans. We keep anthropomorphizing AI and handing it our rituals. We need to define the next generation of tools.
Why does every AI-generated app look the same? It's not your prompt, and it's not your taste. Usual answers are wrong imo, here's my take š hellomathieup.medium.com/why-every-ai...
To kick things off, a question i get every week: "if AI can generate an app, what's an app builder even for?" My short answer: AI didn't kill it, it made it more valuable. the long one, from inside one š hellomathieup.medium.com/ai-didnt-kil...
Here's my honest take on the world i work in: AI, apps, UX/UI, etc. From inside it, not the sidelines. Plus my quirks (guess them from my bio emojis š) Mes avis sans filtre sur les apps, l'IA, etc. Et mes lubies, planquĆ©es dans mes emojis. En anglais et en franƧais š
Starting on bluesky for real this time (more than 2 years after my false start š ). Sorry if i don't have the codes yet, i'll learn. Any starter packs worth recommending?