Dan Hollick

Dan is a London-based designer and engineer. After a decade-long career in product design including stints at Raycast, TIDAL, and Barclays, he put on the hat of design engineer at Tailwind Labs and currently continues at Cursor.

Dan is the author of Making Software, a reference manual for people who design and build software.

From the conversation:

Books

• Making Software by Dan Hollick — https://makingsoftware.com

• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth — https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html

• The iOS App Icon Book and The macOS App Icon Book by Michael Flarup — https://appiconbook.com

Tools and software

• Adobe InDesign — https://www.adobe.com/products/indesign.html

• Affinity — https://affinity.studio

• Cursor — https://cursor.com

• LaTeX — https://www.latex-project.org

• Raycast — https://raycast.com

• Tailwind CSS — https://tailwindcss.com

• tldraw — https://tldraw.dev

People and resources

• 3Blue1Brown — https://3blue1brown.com

• Museum für Gestaltung Zürich — https://museum-gestaltung.ch

• Nick Pattison’s studio, Primary — https://primary.studio

Related episodes

• Carl Rivera — https://www.designdisciplin.com/p/carl-rivera

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