I’m not really happy with the progress on the app I’m writing, but that’s more of me being a newbie in development than anything else :)

A couple of days ago I’ve read a not particularly well-named article “The 15-minute daily habit that will change your career”, where the artist Austin Kleon is cited:

“I recommend that everybody come up with a daily dispatch,” says Kleon. And it’s nothing terribly involved: Kleon recommends spending 15 or 30 minutes at the end of each day selecting and sharing something on your social networks. That’s it.

“What I mean by that is one little bit of media that you push out every day, some little piece of your process that you share with people,” he says. Set yourself a daily goal: one photo on Instagram, tweeting the favorite sentence you read that day, doing a blog post about something you love.

That actually makes sense for me, I’m usually too deep in my shell to show unfinished work to the outside world. A perfectionist trait, but as then-37 Signals quoted, “shipping beats perfection”, so there you go.

Today I’ve been doing some list display work and used some icons from the four iOS icon sets by Pixeden.

First, I used a simple [NSString stringWithFormat:@“🎓 %@”, topicId.name] incantation and got this:

The graduation cap didn’t work all too well though, especially with my effort to deemphasize color use and flatten the app. Plus I’ve read that since iOS 7 emoji stopped scaling above 16px. That’s when I came over Pixeden’s icons and replaced the emoji graduation cap with an UIImageView. Tab bar icons are from these sets as well.

In horizontal layout the Due and Deadline labels look too far off, yet I don’t want to move them over to the left, the line would be too heavy. Oh well! We’ll see.