Vesper How to Make a Vesper: Design June 19, 2013 by Dave Wiskus Vesper is opinionated software. Every interaction, pixel, and line of code was carefully considered, and no work was too precious to throw away. I’d like to share some history of how Vesper came to look and feel the way it does. Last summer, Justin Williams approached me about doing a project based on an idea John Gruber came up with. The idea was simple: you’d have a list of things, and instead of using a masochistic system for managing the context of each thing, you’d just tag them. If you wanted to adjust priority, you would drag them up and down. When you’re done, just mark it as done and move on. The idea sounded simple enough, and the first round of design was more or less done in a day. My goal was to go with a pretty flat view hierarchy and make it feel more like a Twitter client than a to-d...