Matthew Davis

These are the real McCoy.

I had the good fortune to work on this redesign in its early days with ChefsFeed and our friends at Instrument in Portland. Ok, and then I moved to Portland. At that time, our challenge was to grow upon ChefsFeed's success as a guide only, in a way that improved upon the app's utility without betraying its simple appeal. We debated on the usefulness of social features that had never...

I use IA Writer more than any other software that's not a browser. It channels something I learned about my brain in my intellectual pre-dawn with a blank sheet of paper and pencil, or later with a beat up Royal Quiet Deluxe. I'm retraining myself to work without constantly researching myself or being sidelined with nonsense, though occasion ally moving from place to place, and between a big...