Launched Google Maps iOS → 10yrs Google design leadership for Apple platforms, then left Google → Now building a startup for people who use cars
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Synapse. My exploration into a look inside the "mind" of the local OpenClaw-driven multi-agent orchestration cluster I'm building.
Clutch Engineering is now an official corporate sponsor of the OpenStreetMap Foundation 🎉
2026 is going to be a huge year for Sidecar. Looking forward to advancing the state of the art in open mapping technologies and communities ❤️
Release notes for today's Sidecar release — this was a big one!
- ▶️ Customizable CarPlay widgets
- 📌 Pinnable OBD parameters
- 🗺️ Improved automatic trip logging
- 🚘 New car symbols for the bZ4X and León
- ❤️ Tons of fine-tunings thanks to the incredible beta testing crew 💪
"Let’s build iOS 18’s navigation title card in SwiftUI" jeffverkoeyen.com/blog/2024/…
iOS 18 standardizes a design pattern that could be called “navigation title cards”. In their simplest form, these cards appear at the top of a list of content and provide brief explanatory text.
"Everything you never thought you wanted to know about emoji flags".
Learn the technical difference between 🇺🇸 and 🏴 and some handy tricks to generating flags from country codes in this new post:
jeffverkoeyen.com/blog/2024/…
"Why aren't the designers and engineers sitting together?"
I've asked this more times than I can count.
At many large companies, designers and engineers are not only different job descriptions, they're often physically separated from one another.
Ladders and job roles incentivize specialization, so it's up to leaders to create environments that encourage high-efficiency cross-pollination of talent, and to avoid the tendency for product design groups to default to the assembly line (i.e. "hand-off") model of work.