Design-to-development is where developers’ souls get crushed in unrewarding grunt work, and designers’ souls get crushed as their design succumbs to time-induced compromises. As a CTO and a developer, experiencing these setbacks has always been a source of frustration for me. If there’s one thing I’ve experienced first hand, it’s…

Unique insights from building a design-to-code platform — Background Anima is a design-to-code platform that my team and I have been working on for the past two and a half years. Two years ago, we released our first product that automatically converts designs to code. Its premise was simple: a designer can design a website in Sketch and click…

Anima is automating front-end development. As a part of our research and development, we’re discovering insights that are crucial to the success of front-end automation. In this article, we have defined the 6 levels of front-end automation. These are inspired by SAE’s (Society of Automotive Engineers) levels as defined in…

Anima is automating front-end development. As a part of our research and development, we’re discovering insights that are crucial to the success of front-end automation. In this article, we have defined the 6 levels of front-end automation. These are inspired by SAE’s (Society of Automotive Engineers) the levels defined in…

Component-based Development vs Cotton Picking — Thoughts on how React can demystify the mythical man month and make frontend development easier with a distributed network of engineers, just like cotton picking. The Mythical Man-Month The Mythical Man-Month is an essay by Fred Brooks. In this essay Fred writes about the difficulty in scheduling software development project and their time…

“Everything that can be automated will be automated” — Zuboff’s Law Automating a boost to my GPA In Ben-Gurion University’s Computer Science program there are points you get by enrolling in one of the optional courses. Some courses are considered easier than others, and one is considered by far the easiest — The History of Math…

“The more responsibility a person is given, the more responsible they become.” Years ago during military service I’ve noticed something. A canteen is the place soldiers come for a break to buy snacks and such. One of the easiest jobs considered for non-combat soldiers is to be the canteen-man of…

Thoughts about what people like getting as notifications, and what not. — When it comes to notifications, people (including me), are really picky. We don’t want to see too many notifications cluttering our most precious real-estate, the one that controls our attention span, our beloved Notification Center. Thing is, I believe that with the right execution notification platforms can actually reduce the…

Building your team is the most difficult task when building a company. It’s a process, it takes time, months at the bare minimum. Throwing together a bunch of people in a room, as talented as the may be, will not yield results right away. It takes time. It takes time…