Last year I described my summer process as "Backpack-Driven Development" (https://www.relay.fm/radar/273) where I spend the early parts of the summer wandering around gathering little bits of code, learnings, features and ideas...then once everything has been gathered I can embark on the effort to combine them all together into the final form.

Today I feel like I have reached the magical moment where suddenly I'm not gathering instead I’m fitting things together and they're rapidly falling into place.

@_Davidsmith awesome shot!

One of the key things this approach encourages is to not commit to too many decisions about UI/UX until you really deeply understand the problem. So often I find that some distinction or functional element which feels absolutely essential at the start ends up becoming completely irrelevant to the final design.

So I can simply discard it and move on to the actually important parts I have later discovered.

@_Davidsmith this is me, but at the beach, for the iOS review. Same approach for the last 3 years.