Joined by John Athayde

Chris and David welcome guest John Athayde, who runs the branding and UX consultancy, Meticulous. They dive into John’s unusual path through the Rails world as a designer, front-end developer, consultant, author, and UX thinker. The conversation moves from early Rails history and The Rails View into a broader discussion about why designers need to understand implementation, how AI is changing product and UI work, where component-based design is headed, and why browser support is still one of the messiest parts of modern web development. Hit download now to hear more! Links John Athayde Website John Athayde X John Athayde Bluesky Meticulous Build Software Like Pixar Makes Movies with John Athayde-The Swift Kick Show The Rails View: Create a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience by Bruce Williams and John Athayde (O’Reilly) Quick ui.sh demo- Adam Wathan X This is the most user -unfriendly form UI- @tkm_hmng8 X Duck Hunt - Wes Bos X Rails World 2026-Austin, TX September 23-24 Honeybadger Honeybadger is an application health monitoring tool built by developers for developers. Judoscale Make your deployments bulletproof with autoscaling that just works. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Chris Oliver X/Twitter Andrew Mason X/Twitter Jason Charnes X/Twitter