The Layering of UX Friction
It's a phone upgrade year in my household; I'm grabbing the new iPhone 17 Pro, while my wife is upgrading to a Google Pixel 10, and both of our parents are...
Design
Review: Shift Happens
Shift Happens is a labor of love. The author, Marcin Wichary, quit his job to start the process of writing this book[1], taking 5–6 years of research, photography, design, and writing to publish....
Controlled Set Pieces
I've been making my way through Marvel's Spider-Man 2. This game was released in 2023 for the PS5, a headliner title that served as a showcase for both the console'...
Multi-Interface Apps
With this year's iOS17 and iPhone 15, the improvements aren't exactly life-changing: a Standby mode that adds a bunch of dim widgets when the phone is statically charging; more customization options for widgets overall across the lock screens, notification areas, and even on macOS; assorted additional settings for end users; grab...
Technology-Driven Creativity
This is a good, if long , article that summarizes how everything seems to be converging on a set of homogeneous styles: The age of average I've read the bit on how all cars have near-identical shapes, and I can appreciate the ubiquitous decor of coffee shops, hotels, etc. The memetic reproduction of Instagram...