mb bischoff (they/them) is a designer and developer in New York City. They are a founder and partner at Lickability, a software studio known for its apps and work for clients like The Atlantic, Houseparty, and Meetup.
mb began blogging and podcasting in 2003 and got their start in tech as IT Director of PodcastPeople at age 13. After high school, they studied human-computer interaction at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, before dropping out to join the mobile team at The New York Times. They worked at Tumblr during its heyday, as an engineer, engineering manager, and product manager.
All the while, mb and their business partners were working to grow Lickability from a side project into the ten-person team it is today. In 2015, mb went full-time at the company, and since then, they’ve worn multiple hats as a product manager, software engineer, sales lead, and office prankster (they may have connected a rotating light to HomeKit 🚨).
mb is an acclaimed speaker, giving talks at conferences around the globe focused on the intersections of technology and culture. They write about these topics and others on this website and the Lickability blog.
In their spare time, mb enjoys making (and drinking) classic cocktails, going to the theatre, trawling Wikipedia for interesting facts, and volunteering for Trans Lifeline. They’re proudly bisexual, trans, & nonbinary. Oh yeah, and they were on Jeopardy.
mb’s contributed to the following applications:
- Quotebook
- Accelerator
- Pinpoint
- The New York Times
- NYT Now
- Tumblr
- Meetup
- The New Yorker Today
- The Atlantic
- Houseparty
- Aloe Bud
- Mimeo Photos
- Growing Pains — NSNorth 2019
- Culture Rot — Difficult to Name Reading Series March 2018
- Making Meetup — CocoaHeads NYC
- Barely Managing — CocoaLove October 2016
- Write Your Way Out — Release Notes September 2016
- Software Criticism — iOSoho 2014
- Objective-C Sins — Flatiron School 2013
- RFTM: Things You Missed in the HIG — SecondConf September 2013
- Get Excited and Make Things — TEDxNJIT November 2011
- NSNorth 2019, Episode 57: mb Bischoff — April 2019
- Consult Episode 17: mb Bischoff — June 2017
- Úll Radio 10: mb Bischoff — April 2017
- MacStories Lounge WWD 2016: mb Bischoff — June 2016
- Inquisitive #57: Favourite Album: mb Bischoff — November 2015
- Release Notes #72: mb Bischoff — September 2014
- Inquisitive #7: We’re Better Than That — October 2014
- CMD+Space #101: Own your identity — June 2014
- Maccast 2011.06.24 – Lickability — June 2014
- CMD+Space #26: iOS 7 and Lickability — October 2013
- Developing Perspective: mb Bischoff — July 2012
- Inside Design: Three basic principles for getting started with accessible digital product design — June 2019
- Instabug: 59 People Every iOS Developer Should Follow on Twitter — October 2015
- Not Yet 30 New York: Interview — July 2015
- objc.io Issue #10: iCloud and Core Data — March 2014
- SF Gate: Startup makes reading so speedy it doesn’t even feel like reading — March 2014
- mb Bischoff’s Sweet iPhone Setup — February 2014
- Objectively Stylish — August 2013
- Objective See Interview — July 2012
You can contact mb here or find them online in all of these places:
🐦 Twitter
📷 Instagram
📺 YouTube
👍 Facebook
💼 LinkedIn
🐙 GitHub
🌐 Wikipedia
🥃 Tumblr
📚 Goodreads
🎥 Letterboxd
👽 Reddit
💸 Kickstarter
😸 Product Hunt
🥞 YourStack