THE DEVIL SUGGESTS
Build a simple mobile app
Make a tiny app that solves one small problem for you, such as a packing checklist or a queue counter. A finished, slightly plain app teaches more than an ambitious one left half-built.
Do it
- Pick one task the app should do.
- Sketch its main screen on paper.
- Choose a beginner-friendly mobile app tool.
- Build the basic interaction and test it on a phone.
- Use it yourself for a few days and fix the most annoying bit.
What next?
Keep the useful notes, photograph the result if there is one, then go and find something else to do.