Engineering simplicity

Today’s a special day for this website: it finally gains a user-friendly homepage that showcases all the functions I’ve built up (and re-built!) over the past five months.

I’ll miss the big cover photograph of the compass, but I realise nobody comes here to look at photographs of compasses (no matter how much I liked it). Google was onto something with a plain-white screen, and I’ve been trying to engineer simplicity into everything I’m doing now … taking away, shortening, reducing the number of clicks required, making it easier to share absolutely anything, anywhere.

For posterity’s sake (and who knows where we’ll all be in ten years), this is what the homepage looks like now: