Have you ever spent an entire day thinking it was the day before? That was me this week. Thursday was Wednesday and today came all too fast. Time seems to be on fast forward. Already halfway through the quarter, almost can’t believe it. Our project is moving along. We split the team into front-end and back-end and I am on front-end. Designing the app has been a lot of fun and a nice break from learning Swift and Xcode and everything iOS.

We have been using Sketch and Figma to make our mock-ups. It is so easy to move files between Sketch and Figma which makes designing one app where one person has Windows and the other Apple much easier. Sketch and Figma are also very similar in functionality, so once you learn one, the other is fairly straightforward to pick up. Figma has been great for collaboration, allowing multiple people to edit/view at once, and as it works on your browser it is easy to share – no downloading or uploading of files and changes appear in real time.

This week we finally sit down to start coding the app. Once again, YouTube tutorials has been my best friend. This one, Sketch to Xcode, from Karin Prater has been especially useful. The Scrumdinger Tutorial from Apple Dev that we first went through to ramp up Swift knowledge has also proved invaluable, as it is a very similar model to how our app will work and provides us with a great starting point.

The journey continues with minimal road bumps so far, these last few weeks have been a blur, and I’m curious and excited about what the next few weeks will bring.

Here’s a picture of my sister’s dog, Wally, for some bonus dopamine.