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What we ship at mindfull.studio — daily notes from the studio and longer reads on product design and design systems, including AI-powered products when that's the topic.

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October 30, 2026 · Daily

Written for the answer

A blog post is written to be read. An article for AI search is written to be quoted. What changed when we started making the studio readable to machines.

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October 30, 2026 · Article

Is there an app that coaches you to declutter?

Yes. MIZE is a minimalism coach for iPhone, iPad and Android, built by Mindfull Studio. It gives you small daily declutter tasks, habit swaps, a journal and an AI coach.

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October 29, 2026 · Daily

Replies over posts

Why I've stopped waiting for posts to land and started showing up in other builders' threads, one useful reply at a time.

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October 27, 2026 · Daily

Let the phone choose the language

Taking MIZE to Japanese and German: follow the phone's language by default, keep a picker close by, and check each language where people will read it.

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October 22, 2026 · Daily

A ladder worth climbing

Designing badges and titles people actually want to earn: rungs that mean something, titles you keep, and a fair recalculation when the rules change.

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October 17, 2026 · Daily

Why the app made the phone hot

A new app we're building kept making the phone hot. The cause was background work running too often. Why doing less out of sight is a design decision.

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October 15, 2026 · Daily

Trouble at the bottom of the screen

The bugs that get past us aren't dramatic: a chat box hidden by the keyboard, stray gaps, uneven padding. Why small Android bugs slip through to users.

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October 14, 2026 · Daily

Held up by the small print

Getting MIZE released and past App Store review took more than two months. A missing EULA link, background audio, and how small things hold up a release.

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October 12, 2026 · Daily

The screenshot is a promise

MIZE 1.1.0 is on its way to the App Store and Google Play, with store pages built from real app captures instead of mockups. Here's why that matters.

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October 8, 2026 · Daily

Less, in whose voice?

MIZE 1.1.0 is on TestFlight and headed to Play as a test build. The idea underneath: philosophies like Stoicism, wabi-sabi and Thoreau shaping how the coach talks.

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October 4, 2026 · Daily

One price, no countdown

Why we dropped countdown launch prices and "was" prices on our design kits for one fixed price per tier, and why pricing pages are design too.

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October 4, 2026 · Daily

Faster, without the slop

Meet Mindfull Studio — AI-enhanced product design without the slop, our own products, and what this blog of short entries is for. Working globally.

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