Signing up one person did not test a shared home.
I asked for a household of four, then three separate people joining it.
The build journal / 2025 to 2026
Inside the work.
From the first request to the detail that changed the product.
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Two dates. Two taps.
A vacation range did not need separate From and Until interactions before the calendar could do its job.
Three people at home should not mean nine days of waiting.
Adapting a chore’s rhythm needed a limit that people could understand.
Monthly should mean a month after it was last done.
Changing a chore’s schedule exposed an old assignment that should no longer have existed.
Making the navigation smaller made the collision worse.
The chat composer and the tab bar were competing for the same space.
The dishwasher is a sequence, not a checkbox.
Running it and emptying it are different jobs. The product needed to connect them.
A week of availability, painted in a few gestures.
The app had already filled in my schedule. Editing it was the hard part.