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2021 Year in Review
Goodbye 2021. Hello 2022. I thought this might be the year that things would start to go back to normal. With more people vaccinated perhaps we’d get closer to something resembling normal? Despite all...
View ArticleAbout Signal Tower
Signal Tower was the site where I hosted interviews from 2013-2016. The publication is long gone, but I’ve been slowly migrating the interviews over to this site. Today, I finally published the last...
View ArticleThe People I Met Hosting Interviews
Two weeks ago I moved the very last interview from Signal Tower to this site. All of the interviews that have been published now exist here. I’ve done a lot of reflecting in the process. I also moved...
View ArticleImproving Accessibility with Design Tokens
About this presentation Ever since Salesloft’s rebrand I’ve been thinking a lot about accessibility. Our decision to make green our brand color helps us standout in the marketplace. However, it causes...
View ArticlePort St. Joe July 2022
We traveled a lot this summer. Some close friends got married in Asheville. Then we flew out to Seattle to visit my sister, who had just started an internship with Microsoft. We were also planning a...
View ArticleCode School, 10 years later
Almost exactly 10 years ago I boarded a one-way flight to Chicago. I had decided to join The Starter League, one of the first cohorts of one of the first code schools in the country. Just a couple of...
View ArticleExperimenting with AI Artwork
I recently started experimenting with AI generated artwork. I am incredibly impressed by what can be done by typing a few words into a text field. It feels like magic. There’s a lot I want to write...
View ArticleTim’s First Day of School: Written and Illustrated by AI
This children’s story, Tim’s First Day of School, was generated in an afternoon with the help of AI. My intention is to show what AI can accomplish today and give a peek at what might be possible...
View ArticleHolly’s 30th Birthday
Holly wanted to do something big for her 30th birthday—she just didn’t know what. We had talked a bit about doing a big beach trip, inviting a bunch of friends and renting a house. That wasn’t going to...
View ArticleA New Logo
I’ve never quite been satisfied with the logos I’ve designed for this site. Over the years I’ve spent an enormous amount of time working on various options—the results just haven’t been that great. One...
View Article2022 Year in Review
Hello from my parent’s kitchen table! It has been a chaotic couple of weeks. This is not how I expected to spend my time off, but here we are. It’s funny. Later on in this post, you’ll hear me discuss...
View Article001: New Year, New Newsletter
Hey y’all, welcome to the first edition of the Solomon.io newsletter. Now, I know this newsletter isn’t exactly new to most of you. However, I have decided to experiment a bit with the format. For a...
View ArticleRedesigning MARTA’s iOS App
Over the long weekend, I began redesigning MARTA’s iOS app. Since it’s release, I’ve wanted to try out Apple’s new iOS component library. Redesigning the MARTA app was a perfect fit because the app’s...
View ArticleProjects, Projects, Projects
Hello! I hope you all had a great Fourth of July. I’ve had many projects over the last couple of months and thought I’d share some of the larger ones. Most recently, I took MARTA back from the airport...
View ArticleExploring Emoji Prompts in Midjourney
Did you know you can use emojis and unicode characters as prompts in Midjourney? While working on a project I accidentally entered a single-character prompt. I was expecting an error, what I got was a...
View ArticleGenerative AI for Industrial Design
Recently, I spoke about generative AI to a group of designers and researchers at Amazon Web Services. Specifically, I gave insight into my processes and workflows around AI. Around that time I had...
View ArticleGiant Face Houses
What’s new? I recently gave a talk about generative AI at AWS. I’m heading to Yosemite this week and made a few nightmarish creations with emojis in Midjourney. As I mentioned, I gave a talk about...
View ArticleThe Pooch Pontoon
For Holly’s birthday this year we chartered a Pooch Pontoon on Lake Lanier for an afternoon. Basically, they cover the boat in birthday decorations and then ferry you to an island where the dogs can...
View ArticleDafuskie and Hunting Island 2023
One of our favorite things to do is take road trips. Holly and I both enjoy exploring places and the dogs do great in the car. This month we decided to visit a few of the islands off the cost of South...
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