Thinking about how to build stuffhttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/react-profiler-claude-code/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/react-profiler-claude-code/Cartographer has a large drag-and-drop canvas to organise the story map. I hate janky software and I don't intend to ship any, so making this drag/drop performance work well is of high importance.Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/claude-code-for-designers/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/claude-code-for-designers/Practical tips on how designers can use Claude Code to ship real designs to production.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/failure-demand-tax/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/failure-demand-tax/A failure demand - happens when a customer thinks you've failed them, and now you need to go above and beyond to satisfy them. It's a demand for service beyond what you planned to provide. It's a bit…Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/vertical-software-embrace-complexity/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/vertical-software-embrace-complexity/There's inherent complexity in any vertical software play. That's why it's an attractive opportunity - you can solve a problem, and build a moat! Most software aims to hide complexity from users, or a…Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/tarpit-ideas/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/tarpit-ideas/I've been adding to my list of ideas for a decade. Some were great (they got built!) some are dumb (they got built and sucked!). Some are really dumb (I didn't bother). I add to it frequently, and occ…Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/spyyyder/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/spyyyder/I made a very tiny tool called Spyyyder that grabs a page, tells me what links are on that page, and then allows me to drill down through each of them. For getting to grips with how a site is put toge…Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/time-and-attendance-optimization-has-rapidly-diminishing-returns/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/time-and-attendance-optimization-has-rapidly-diminishing-returns/I was recently asked for a recommendation on a Workforce Management System, with some requirements that were heavily focused on optimal staffing levels.Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/sourcetree/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/sourcetree/Old habits die hard.Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/runtime/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/runtime/Before this project I'd never touched NextJS, Vercel, Typescript, or Supabase. I'd played with React a little. Never deployed a modern frontend or an edge-function.Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTAIProductGPT-4SaaShttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/accidentally-on-purpose/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/accidentally-on-purpose/Sometimes it feels like building products and product management in general are just.. a series of gambles. You try to be well informed by data and research, you make educated guesses: you're hoping i…Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/break-things-to-change-things/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/break-things-to-change-things/The Shopify news is all over the place: they're removing all recurring meetings with more than 2 people.Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/information-you-use-is-better-than-data-that-you-dont/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/information-you-use-is-better-than-data-that-you-dont/2 years ago, stuck at home mid-pandemic and a couple kilos heavier than I'm happy with, I started working out and focusing on my health. Fast forward to today: I'm making a peanut butter sandwich and…Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/individual-praise-team-opportunity/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/individual-praise-team-opportunity/Give deep praise, and give it context. Praise is more impactful when people can also understand why the subject of the praise is important.Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/lloyd-on-productized-podcast/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/lloyd-on-productized-podcast/I recently spent 45 minutes chatting with André from the Productized Podcast about moving from UX to Product Management, and building AI products. We also had a momentary nerd-out about submarines.Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/sketch-symbol-best-practices-now-that-nested-overrides-are-a-thing/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/sketch-symbol-best-practices-now-that-nested-overrides-are-a-thing/At Tradeshift, we’re beginning to maintain a central Sketch document with all our symbols. In order to be added to this document, a symbol needs to be of a certain quality. Everyone designing for us (…Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/adding-icons-to-links/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/adding-icons-to-links/Here's how I added icons to links on my site. I initially wanted to have a way to highlight social links, but I'm also using it to denote different types of downloads, links to videos, etc.Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/my-sketch-shortcuts/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/my-sketch-shortcuts/This post was migrated from my old site to a new system that doesn't quite support the same formatting. Sorry if it looks a bit weird!Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/rethinking-recipes/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/rethinking-recipes/This post was migrated from my old site to a new system that doesn't quite support the same formatting. Sorry if it looks a bit weird!Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/woodworking/https://www.lloydhumphreys.com/writing/woodworking/This post was migrated from my old site to a new system that doesn't quite support the same formatting. Sorry if it looks a bit weird!Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT