Product designer in Toronto. Seven years on B2B SaaS and AI products — designing them, building them, and writing down what happened.https://johnu.me/enhttps://johnu.me/lab/smiling-rick-in-figma/https://johnu.me/lab/smiling-rick-in-figma/Testing what Figma can animate, with a familiar face and only two frames.Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTvisual & brandhttps://johnu.me/lab/relational-datetime/https://johnu.me/lab/relational-datetime/Turn a timestamp into "5 minutes ago" or "Yesterday", and fall back to a plain date after that.Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMTui engineeringhttps://johnu.me/lab/receipts-to-json-with-gpt/https://johnu.me/lab/receipts-to-json-with-gpt/An early experiment: OCR a receipt with DocTR, then have GPT-3.5 Turbo turn the raw text into structured JSON an app can use.Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTresearchhttps://johnu.me/lab/truncate-middle/https://johnu.me/lab/truncate-middle/Cut the middle out of a long string and keep both ends. Useful for filenames, wallet addresses and IDs.Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTui engineeringhttps://johnu.me/lab/neumorphism-in-mobile-ui/https://johnu.me/lab/neumorphism-in-mobile-ui/An experiment with soft shadows in Figma, to see how far the extruded look holds up on a phone screen.Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTvisual & brandhttps://johnu.me/lab/whatsapp-do-not-disturb/https://johnu.me/lab/whatsapp-do-not-disturb/A concept for going quiet on WhatsApp while still letting the urgent messages through.Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTproduct design