KQED In Your Car: A CarPlay and Android Auto Journey
A deep dive into how Uptech Studio worked with KQED to bring the mobile experience to the car dashboard by adding CarPlay and Android support. We discuss UX considerations, product goals, and technical details of building CarPlay and Android Auto into a Flutter app.
EdTech for Special Ed: Digitizing Functional Academics with SDES
Specially Designed Education Services partnered with Uptech Studio to digitize their innovative program for special ed teachers and students with unique learning needs. By deeply engaging to understand the needs and goals of teachers, aides, administrators, students, and parents, Uptech Studio found the most impactful areas to start applying technical solutions to real world problems.
Fan inc. Partners with Uptech Studio to Create Innovative NIL & Fintech Platform
Fan inc. is a revolutionary platform in the sports tech and fintech arena, helping college athletes connect with their fans. With recent changes in the law, college athletes can now make money from selling their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”). To date, the new NIL rules have only benefited a select few, top-tier athletes. Fan inc. saw the opportunity to democratize access to these new rules and turned to Uptech Studio to help build and launch a platform so all college athletes earn money directly from their fans, while providing a financial platform geared towards their particular needs and goals, focused on financial responsibility and literacy.
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May 2026 Newsletter
April 2026 Newsletter. I still think about the teams I was part of at Yahoo and Acorns and ask the same question: how big should product development teams be now, and what is the right mix of product, design, and engineering?At Yahoo!, my Messenger team was 5 people and we supported a product that had hundreds of millions of downloads. At Acorns, we had 10x that number, but we were supporting multiple businesses within the same app. Even then, we still tried to keep it small with a single, focused PM, a shared designer, and a dedicated team of 5 devs.
Quality Control at Hyper Speed
AI-assisted development has made writing code faster than ever. But speed exposes a split in what quality actually means and the different layers don’t all move at the same pace. The obvious win of AI-assisted development is speed. Features ship faster. Backlogs move. The less obvious consequence is that speed creates pressure on quality and “quality” turns out to mean several different things that don't move at the same pace and AI can only address some of the issues.
March 2026 Newsletter
In this newsletter for March 2026, I focus on software for hardware. While understanding context of use is always important when you're designing and building software, real-world usage considerations get magnified when you're working with software for physical products.
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