Minty Monday No.63

Hope you had a great weekend! Here’s this week’s Minty Monday, enjoy!

Focus with Raycast Focus

One of the apps I use daily is Raycast, and they’ve now introduced Raycast Focus. With this feature, you can block distracting apps or websites directly from Raycast for a set amount of time, helping you focus on completing tasks without interruptions. There’s also a clear countdown timer showing how long you’ve been in focus mode and how much time remains before you can access the blocked apps again.

HiKeys’ amazing product website

Switching gears a bit, but still staying in the realm of digital product design: the website for the HiKeys keyboard recently popped up in our Slack team, and its design truly deserves a shoutout. For me, a well-designed website that centers around the physical product enhances my appreciation of it significantly. This one uses 3D renders that animate based on scroll position. I’m telling you, I’m not a musician, but this keyboard almost makes me want to become one!

Get your Notion-style avatar

What I’ve always admired about Notion’s brand and visual identity is how they’ve managed to make their platform highly recognizable despite its neutral design. Their distinct illustration style plays a big part in this. On Twitter, you often see copycats using Notion-style avatars, but now there’s Notion Faces, a tool that lets you build an avatar with facial attributes to resemble yourself as closely as possible.

Roadmap: Step-by-step guides for a (new) career

Roadmap.sh is a resource website designed to guide you when you're looking to deepen your expertise in your current job or retrain for a new one. It provides clear step-by-step paths, showing which skills and competencies to focus on and in what order. For instance, if you want to dive into iOS development, it outlines the best learning progression to get you there efficiently.