alasdair monk

alasdair monk — i'm a software designer and builder with twelve years experience in making developer products.

today i'm working as a principal designer at
Vercel
Vercel icon
. previously i've worked at
HashiCorp
,
Heroku
, &
Salesforce
.
in my spare time i make mac apps as ½ of
Replay
and invest in early stage startups.
Side projects
Sleeve
a macOS app to enhance your music listening experience
Umbra
the ultimate macOS app for customising dark mode
Bump
out the box cd pipeline to deploy your indie software with sparkle
Pylon
declarative layout utilities for prototyping and building web apps
Selected writing
apr 21
Why we built Bump, an automated pipeline for releasing apps with Sparkle
apr 18
Designing & building our design toolchain
jan 17
Distract yourself from the apocalypse with this article about a laptop with three screens
feb 16
Blame your tools
jun 14
How a sketch on a napkin changed how the world thought about architecture