At any given time, I have a dozen or so ideas for things I’d love to build or see built in the world. I like to document them in here in case someone else is interested in collaborating (or taking the idea and running with it).

UXcellence

• Refine the UX Compendium for Figma. Re-release it and continue to improve it.
• Write more for UXcellence. My drafts folder is full to bursting, and there are several articles already in flight.
• Refine the UX Tool Belt - don’t worry about the 10kb network limit anymore, so I can make it what it should be.
• Build out a more comprehensive design system for UXcellence-related projects.
• Build my newsletter audience back up. (Previous signups were lost when I stopped using Mailchimp for a couple years.)
• Set up a business/studio for occasional freelance work.
• Explore new tools and products related to UXcellence.
• Consider whether ColorBot is worth refining or if I should cede the field to better color tools.
• Figure out a good publishing schedule for The User Stories, and get back to writing comics.

Creativity

• A collaborative fiction enterprise that would allow writers to post a portion of a story on their own site linked from a previous portion and linking to other potential paths forward. In other words, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure platform where each choice links to a new and different personal site. See Ficly for a prior example (on a single hosted site).


  Challenges: Spam, Harassment, Integrating jumps between sites, monetization?

• A better world building notebook. Wikis and tools like Notion are the de facto starting point for creating interlinked documents for dungeon masters and writers of complex worlds. What if there were a tool built specifically to help document worlds? Prior art: World Anvil (but better)

  Challenges: Integration with other tools for writing/DMing, respect for complex public/private sharing, monetization? (or at least how to support the tool)

Play

• Continue building out and documenting my home-brew D&D world.

• Game night guide - a tool to recommend board games, provide the simplest possible setup and guide info, and help people keep track of the games they have and choose the game they’re most interested in playing right now through a recommendation engine. (“I want to play something collaborative for 3 players that lasts roughly 45 minutes a game” or “Suggest something competitive for 6 players that is complex and will take several hours to play.”) Prior art: Board Game Geek but cleaner, simpler, and more focused on helping people play quickly


  Challenges: Building the appropriate data for a reasonable subset of common games, writing content to simplify setup/guide

• Make a guide to common card games (see above game night idea, but specifically for cards)

A better world

• Make better tools for managing school PTAs and websites.
• Approach state agencies and local non-profits as potential clients.
• I am still intrigued by some of the ideas we explored at DieHappy, and I would love to see better tools for living a more intentional and fulfilling life.

Side projects

• Great British Bake Off fan site - fan site tracking what bakers made, how they fared on each challenge, and who got star baker and left each episode.
• A TTRPG blog writing about things that interest me with the hobby.
• Build a better start tab (links, data, etc.)

Learning

• Learn to create music in GarageBand.
• Learn to play mandolin.
• Get better at pixel art and digital drawing/painting.
• Learn to make miniatures (terrain, buildings, etc.). Both the physical building and painting as well as potentially creating 3D models in digital tools for printing.