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Building the Ultimate Remote Office in Thailand

Building the Ultimate Remote Office in Thailand

As someone who was always moving to new places and had never stayed in the same place for more than a year, I always looked at those "Youtuber desk setups" with jealousy. How cool would it be to build a workplace, optimized for your needs? Last year, I have finally

SaaS Trials: How To Design Trials That Convert to Paying Customers

SaaS Trials: How To Design Trials That Convert to Paying Customers

We are in the middle of a massive shift in the way people try and buy software. No longer are executives or purchasing teams in charge of what software to buy; the end-users are now the ones evaluating and choosing what software they think is best for their job, and

The 4 Hour Workday

The 4 Hour Workday

Some of the most prominent creatives of the 20th century showed that three or four hours of focused work was enough to produce both high-quality as well as a large quantity of work.

Redesigning jurn.io

Redesigning jurn.io

In the two years since I last redesigned my personal website, there have been a lot of changes; I have worked with more clients, launched new projects, and wrote many new articles for my own blog and other publications. The old design wasn't accommodating all of this very well so

How I Get My House Chores Done in Half the Time

How I Get My House Chores Done in Half the Time

House Chores. We all do them, probably every day and maybe even multiple times a day. It's boring, repetitive, and adds up to hundreds of hours every year. A little thoughtfulness and cleverness can save you hundreds of hours a year that you would have wasted, and yet, house chores

Partial WFH – All Downsides, No Benefits

Partial WFH – All Downsides, No Benefits

As most of the west is emerging from the grips of a pandemic, we see many changes made at the start of the pandemic being reversed. One of them is the widely adopted work-from-home policy as more and more companies ask their employees to come back to the office. Many

Learning a New Language in 6 Months

Learning a New Language in 6 Months

Last year I went from knowing how to say "hello" and "thank you" in Thai to B2 level [https://www.efset.org/cefr/b2/] proficiency. I can make small talk with Thai people, read and understand news articles, and have basic conversations about various topics. Good enough to get through

AppSumo

AppSumo hired me as a contractor to help with design work on a variety of projects, redesigning existing features as well as adding new features. Here are some of the things I worked on. User Profiles AppSumo wanted to add user profiles to their website for their community and asked

Smart End of Year Business Expenses to Pay Less Tax

Smart End of Year Business Expenses to Pay Less Tax

As we're wrapping up 2020, you might be looking into some ways you can make your tax bill a little smaller. Although many sectors were hit hard by the pandemic, many companies experienced rapid growth because of the pandemic. If you are fortunate enough to be part of the latter,

QuestionJar

QuestionJar is a premium Q&A platform to make it easier for podcasters to collect questions from their audience.

Design Featured

Everything Developers Need To Know About Figma

This article was originally published on Smashing Magazine [https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/09/figma-developers-guide/] as a guest post written by me. With permission from Smashing Magazine I'm also publishing it here. Figma is a design tool that is rapidly gaining popularity and becoming more common in companies around the

Creating a Figma Community Profile Banner [Free Template]

Last year, Figma announced [https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figma-community/] they were creating a community where everyone can easily share their designs with the world. Every member of the community also has a public profile where they can showcase their work. This profile has some options for customization such as

How to Create a Custom Thumbnail in Figma [Free Template]

Every file in Figma has a thumbnail that shows you a preview of the file's contents. By default Figma will display the contents of the first page in your file as the preview thumbnail but that doesn't provide a lot of information about the file's contents. Setting a custom thumbnail

How to Make Gifs 95% Smaller for Blog Posts

I recently wrote a blog post about Figma animations [https://blog.jurn.io/figma-animation-examples/] that was very heavy on GIFs, checking the network tab in dev tools revealed that the total page size was 87.6mb and took around 36 seconds to load... Yikes! Although it's possible to make GIFs

Mastering Animations in Figma by Building 7 Common UI Animations

Design Featured

Mastering Animations in Figma by Building 7 Common UI Animations

Most designers will spend many hours perfecting every pixel of their static UI designs but will barely spend any time perfecting the transitions between these pages. When you design a mobile menu you design both states, the opened menu and the closed menu. But if a user clicks to open

The Best Way to Accept Payments for Remote Freelancers

The Best Way to Accept Payments for Remote Freelancers

Once you start working with international clients you'll run into many issues you will never experience when contracting for clients in the same country. Language barriers, time zone differences or different cultures which could lead to different styles of communicating or different expectations to name just a few. But the

Should You Use Your Real Name Online?

Career Development

Should You Use Your Real Name Online?

Most people, especially in tech, can benefit significantly from having a professional online presence that shows their expertise. Anyone can put "Javascript" or "Financial Modeling" on their resume. Having a blog, side project, or youtube channel about one of your skills shows employers, investors or clients much more accurately just

Let’s Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages

Let’s Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages

Note: I wrote this article as a guest author for CSS-Tricks and the article was first published on CSS-Tricks [https://css-tricks.com/lets-make-one-of-those-fancy-scrolling-animations-used-on-apple-product-pages/] . Apple is well-known for the sleek animations on their product pages. For example, as you scroll down the page products may slide into view, MacBooks fold open

Saving Money on International Payments as a Remote Freelancer

Saving Money on International Payments as a Remote Freelancer

As a remote freelancer you likely receive payments from other countries and convert these different currencies into your own currency. These international payments and currency conversions often have hidden fees and unfavorable exchange rates which can cost you hundreds or even thousands a year. Luckily for banks and payment providers,

Why I Am Reconsidering My Online Presence

Why I Am Reconsidering My Online Presence

Who inspires you? It's a question I've never given much thought but I managed to think of a couple of people when I was asked. As I thought more about why these people came to mind, something else stood out to me on a much more meta-level. I know most

Games Are the new Social Networks

Over the past decade, social media went from something that barely existed to being used across the world Facebook counts over 2.2 billion users. Instagram has more than 1 billion users and is rapidly growing. There is Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, Pinterest and also Twitch and Youtube. Even though it's

Launching My New Personal Website

I recently redesigned my personal website since I hadn't updated it on over 3 years. A lot had changed in that time so it was about time to create a new site. Here is the process I went through

Screely

Screely.comIn my spare time, I love working on side projects. To build ideas I have for products or just to experiment with new programming languages, frameworks, or tools. I regularly need to share designs or screenshots of my work. I wanted to make these look better without having to

Personal Website (2019)

The website you are reading this on was also designed and developed by me. The design is simple and minimalistic. It's built on Gatsby.js and the content (blog articles and these work items) is being managed by Ghost CMS. I'm using Ghost CMS as a headless CMS that sends

VloggingPro

vloggingpro.comVloggingPro is an informational website I started back in 2015. My goal with this project was to learn about SEO and online marketing. In the first 12 months after starting VloggingPro I took the website from 0 visitors to 100.000 unique visitors per month. What started as an