What I've been building

For almost four years, I ran a membership inside Case Study Club. We covered everything: portfolios, resumes, interviews, strategy. Members landed jobs at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and studios all over the world.

But one problem came up again and again. Not the case study itself. Remembering what happened. Try recalling what you did on this day two years ago. Some members went from memory, some built folder systems or Notion templates. Almost none kept it up.

I get it. When something good happens at work, you have to stop, take a screenshot, find the right folder and drop it in. So you don't.

The one place I do keep it up is my consultancy. Every month I send a short report with my invoice, so my client knows what they're paying for. The invoice is my cue, and it works.

So over the last few weeks, I built that cue into an app. It's called Caseful, and it's a native Mac app that does the remembering for you:

• Once a week or month, it asks you one question. Answer it and you're done.

• Snip anything with a hotkey, or drop it on the menu bar icon.

• It sorts what you add into your projects on its own, right on your Mac.

• When a review or a new resume comes up, Claude can draw on everything you've saved.

I'm using it for my own client reports, and I'd love for you to try it too. The private beta is free to join, and beta testers get a big discount when it launches.

Join the private beta

If you try it, hit reply and tell me what works and what doesn't. I read every message.

Jan

Nielsen Norman Group surveyed 521 UX practitioners: AI saves them time on nearly every task, and most feel lukewarm about it. Nielsen Norman Group

64% of 59,400 Shopify and WooCommerce product pages had at least one critical accessibility issue in an audit run from 29 July to 4 August. davedavies.dev

Apple Music's new logo was shaped by a sound from Fred again.. and a bath of mineral oil. creativeboom.com

Lufthansa Systems prototypes cockpit maps in Figma Make for Lido's Pilot Apps, which guide pilots on iPads at more than 250 airports. figma.com

Station managers on Singapore's MRT make their own paper signs while the network grows to eight lines and about 360 km by the early 2030s. It's Nice That

E. Knappe invoices, 1921

E. Knappe was a tobacco company in Lauterberg im Harz. Its brand name, Ekata, joins the founder's initials to the first syllable of Tabake, German for tobaccos. In 1921 its invoices were set in Admiral, an italic first cast in 1906 after drawings by the poster designer Julius Gipkens.

By 1922 the invoice had new borders, and eight-pointed stars had replaced the two smoking men. The type stayed the same. Florian Hardwig keeps them in a set on Fonts In Use called Weekly Invoice.

The Lightbulb Computer

The Lightbulb Computer by Guillaume Ardaud is a projector with computer vision, in the shape of a large lightbulb. It screws into a ceiling socket or sits in a battery lamp base. It sees where you point and projects onto any surface: a recipe on the counter, a map on the table, a family board in the hallway.

It is a prototype, and there is nothing to buy yet. Ardaud says every video on the page comes from a real, bulky setup, with no editing or effects. He worked at Apple for over 8 years as a prototyper and designer on Face ID, Apple Pencil and the iPhone camera system.

Written and edited by Jan Haaland. Published weekly from Norway.

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