Designing and building HEY (Changelog Interviews #407)

We’re talking about designing and building HEY with Jonas Downey, the lead designer behind HEY. In their words, “Email sucked for years, but not anymore.” We were super interested in how they went about solving the problems with email, so we invited Jonas on to share all the details and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of HEY.

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Featuring:

• Jonas Downey – Website, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• HEY.com - Email at its best, new from Basecamp
• The Changelog #399: Shipping work that matters - revisiting Shape Up & product development with Ryan Singer
• The Changelog #357: Shaping, betting, and building - featuring Ryan Singer on how Basecamp does product development

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