Biography

Dan Wood has been creating Mac software since the days when the Mac itself was new. With a Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley and a passion for intuitive design, he's built products that have helped thousands of users and shaped the trajectory of Apple-based software. He's most known for Watson, a 2002 macOS app that gave users a number of small utilities that accessed data only available over websites, packaging them into rich user interfaces. Apple loved the idea so much that they awarded it an Apple Design Award while simultaneously copying much of it into their app called Sherlock, giving birth to the verb that strikes fear into the hearts of macOS and iOS developers.

Currently working on several independent iOS and macOS projects, Dan has also been writing SwiftUI technical articles on his LinkedIn page and digging deep into SwiftUI headers and codebases to build a better understanding and organization of complex application code.

When he's not coding, you'll find Dan involved in his local community in a small town near San Francisco — advocating for better bicycling infrastructure, organizing political events, helping his grown son learn how to write code, and keeping bees.